The Dream of Flight

Video compilation about some of the biggest milestones achieved in aviation.
I know there are many other notable achievements but it's impossible to add all of them in the video.
The music used in this video:
Christopher Tin - Sogno di Volare ("The Dream of Flight")
I don't claim any ownership of any of the videosegments.

[@michaelxiong9038]

There's something so powerful about that sight where the Solar Impulse flies over the Pyramids... one of humanity's oldest grand engineering feats juxtaposed with one of our newest. Our spirit of creation transcends location and time.

[@graceskerp]

Inspired image. Brilliant.

[@spacebanana5000]

It was very striking.

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

@@spacebanana5000 Right? Especially with the sunset.

[@TheDarkstormy]

"You will need to build a Civilization that stands the test of time."

[@baum2.079]

Rest in peace Antonov An-225 Mriya...

[@semyonsychev5906]

Blowing in Hell mister Gorbachev and traitors of Socialist Block...

[@Martin-117]

A replacement 225 is already under construction 😊

[@kingsman4628]

​@@Martin-117 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@dwightsnyman7637]

She will fly once more, I know it.

[@szeyuleung-fs2hf]

I have to watch it flight again!!!!I want to go there

[@mari0664]

Just the words “man will be lifted by his own creation” gets me emotional

[@kingseiryu929]

Wtf me too. Literal chills. Got the feeling where you finally reach smith after a Long journey

[@mari0664]

King Seiryu Ikr

[@user-jc4il5kc6y]

POWER OF LATIN LANGUAGE

[@abcdefg91111]

@@user-jc4il5kc6y its Italian. Or perhaps you mean Latin as in Italian coming from the Latin language

[@dototwo3081]

I literaly cried

[@isaacio8924]

Such beautiful score

[@ArmyofDragon]

As Aviation geek, I literally crying while watch this video.

[@katherineberger6329]

Someone who was a teenager when the Wrights made their first flight in 1903 could easily have still been around to see Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon in 1969.

[@jonaslariosa7303]

If da vinci would know how far we've got

[@kingsman4628]

He would cry in joy!

[@hallowedbeyourdays]

We will go further still, kindled by the light he saw ahead of his own time. If only we knew how bright the future will be...

[@RadekZielinski.]

Considering he already invented the parachute before us... we wouldn't have flown far enough to impress him, ahah

[@railboat1105]

@@RadekZielinski.Goated comment

[@Thewafflekingisking]

The song is epic +4 culture +4 touristm

[@unaicanudas]

When I'm down I watch this video and I immediately recover the faith on the humanity. We aren't lost, not yet.

[@hunterdarkson2931]

It's videos like this that really make you realize just how much we take for granted these days.

[@50shekels]

There is no greater glory than serving the ideal of pushing humanity forward.

[@adlerzwei]

3:20 hits hard 😢

[@niklasmolen4753]

There was a tear, or several.

[@josh_jc_cheng]

3:15 - Harrier jump jet - First military Vertical-TakeOff-and-Landing jet ever created 3:19 - An225 - Biggest Aircraft ever in commercial service (till 2022, destroyed in Ukraine) 3:23 - F-16 - One of the most built, used by most country, most advanced 4th Generation fighter in the world 3:25 - A380-800 - The biggest commercial airliner in the world 3:30 - F-35B - The most advanced military jet ever created 3:44 - Boeing 747-400 - Queen of the Sky, most beautiful commercial airliner ever built 3:44 - Panavia Tornado - ummm..... last swap wing fighter 3:44 - C-17 GobalMaster III - One of the best military transport aircraft ever made, winning 33 world record

[@RCA-Photography]

Correct! Thank's for adding here is some more information as to why I added the video/airplanes to the video: 2:34 - first succesfull commercial jet airliner 2:38 - First jet carrier operations 2:45 - Blackbird - Holds the fastest speed record

[@fromnorway643]

2:48 - Saturn V, still the largest and most powerful rocket becoming operational and the only one that has sent humans to another world.

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

Don't forget the SR-71 Blackbird. That was the fastest aircraft ever built. Made of titanium, the SR-71 flies up to 2,000 MPH. (Did I get the speed right?) It is also considered the best spy plane in the world.

[@cockatoofan]

@@GracemarieJohnson2763 it was not the fastest aircraft. there's north american x-15 and many other rocket powered aircraft that are a lot faster. what it is is the fastest turbojet engine aircraft.

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

@Edward Crawford Yeah. Those planes are absolute beasts! But the Antonov-225 planes are freaking HUGE!

[@Oldschool_Gamer_]

0:05 one of the Montgolfier hot air balloons 0:09 Vorflügelapparat by Otto Lilienthal (i think) 0:12 same guy different design 0:17 unknown (feel free to comment if you know) 0:28 Wright Flyer 0:58 unknown plane flown by Raymonde de Laroche 1:02 Sopwith Cuckoo 1:05 same Sopwith Cuckoo? (too shaky and blurry to tell) 1:08 unknown 1:20-1:34 Spirit of St. Louis 1:35 heinkel he 178 1:49 B17 1:52 dunno 1:55 one of the spitfire tropical variants? 2:04 BF109? 2:06 Spitfire 2:16 B29 2:29 dropping an XS-1 experimental plane from a b-29 2:34 de Havilland DH.106 Comet 2:38 de Havilland Vampire? 2:41 unknown 2:45 SR-71 blackbird 2:48 Apollo 11 3:09 Concorde 1:15 Harrier 3:19 Antonov An-225 3:22 F16 3:25 Airbus A380 3:30 F35 Joint Strike Fighter 3:33 Solar impulse 3:43 747 3:44 unknown 3:45 C17 Globemaster 3:46 Wright Flyer i'm bound to have gotten some thing wrong, and there were some i couldn't name, so feel free to let me know what i got wrong

[@RCA-Photography]

1:52 USAF P48 Thunderbolts 1:58 RAF Hawker Typhoon MKI 2:37 First aircraft carrier jet landing (de Havilland Sea Vampire LZ551/G) 2:41 USN Douglas F4D-1 SKYRAY 3:44 RAF Panavia Tornado's

[@TheTestyDuck]

1:08 was an Se.5A

[@mpetersen6]

@@RCA-Photography P-47 Tunderbolts

[@asd-ov3ok]

0:17 Traian Vuia (romanian aviation pioneer) first self-powered flight, unassisted by external devices. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia

[@WilliamMooreHCFS]

1:56 Hawker Typhoon And there's a Curtis Kittyhawk around there too (2:07 - it's not a Spit)

[@xtron1234]

Here after the launch of Artemis I. I am unbelievably proud to be a human being in this age. I wish NASA all the best in returning to the moon and beyond.

[@flyingabrams]

3:20 RIP AN-225 :(((((((((

[@estoc5866]

I think the Royal Airforce motto fits this well, “Per ardua ad astra” - Through adversity to the stars.

[@PrinceAlhorian]

South African Air Force motto: Ad Astra Per Aspera (Through hardship to the stars)

[@kilotun8316]

Sic Itur Ad Astra: Such is the Pathway to the Stars

[@Gryronaut]

This is the best video in youtube. Hands down. Nothing compares to the sensation of being in control in the air.

[@Strelnikov403]

The two shots of the B-29 deploying both an atomic bomb, the most destructive weapon ever conceived by mankind, and the Bell X-1, the crucial first step in our journey beyond our home to the stars beyond, is some real biblical, swords-to-ploughshares shit. Love it.

[@fionajohnston]

It reminds me of that wonderful poem by John Gillespie, High Flight but with different words. One could literally feel as you watch the videos, that you are up there. My father was a Fleet Air Arm pilot in the RN and adored flying. He rarely speeded on the road as he always said he got those thrills in the air and I can see why. What a wow of a piece of music. My heart really soared as the aircraft climbed and flew through the air as I enjoy flying myself and fly back and forth to school when I was at Aberdeen from Heathrow and to other places. The thrill as the undercarriage lifted up as the pilot exerted that thrust into the sky, the sheer wonder of it all, I have never grown out of, thinking of all those pioneers who first took up the challenge of lifting into the sky. Perhaps I am a romantic deep at heart but then I feel we need more romance with all this doom and gloom. The exhilaration is spell binding.

[@Darealcyclic]

Couldn't have said it better at all.

[@PrinceAlhorian]

Paraphrasing: "We reached out our hand, and touched the face of God."

[@fionajohnston]

@@PrinceAlhorian I have an engraved copy of the hymn

[@nathangamble125]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" ~Abraham Lincoln. Da Vinci never said the "once you have tasted flight..." quote. It was made up for a documentary about him, as an example of the sort of thing he MIGHT have said, but there's no historical record of him ever actually saying it. However, the bit about Monte Cerceri actually IS a Da Vinci quote (or at least a paraphrasing of it).

[@IceColdFireGAMING]

Nathan Gamble wasn’t it Gandhi who said that quote? Not Abraham Lincoln?

[@IceColdFireGAMING]

Joshua Memeboi makes sense. Thanks

[@Skyninja-lq5tl]

@Joshua Memeboi its Richard lion heart quote!

[@Strelnikov403]

The final two shots juxtaposing a massive behemoth of an aircraft like the C-17 Globemaster with the Wright Flyer are just... Man...

[@deebeal7445]

Christoper Tin is a genius as was Leonardo da Vinci. Love this, thank you for putting all the great milestones of flight to his music.

[@PrinceAlhorian]

Rest well Meastro da Vinci... We did it, we finally truly did it. We flew, just like you dreamed we would.

[@spacebanana5000]

This video captured the aesthetic of these wonders of aviation. Thank you.

[@northernshield5414]

Goosebumps, tears, feelings of joy. You get the whole package in this video!

[@TheRacingmenace]

Some observations: 0:05 - 1783, The first 'aerostatic' flight conducted with a hot air balloon by the Mongolfier bros. 0:09 - 1891-1896, early heavier than air gliders, by Otto Lilienthal 0:16 - 1853, with a glider created by George Cayley, the first manned heavier-than-air gliding flight was conducted. 0:20 - 1903, Wright brothers' Wright flyer, the first powered manned heavier-than-air flight 0:58 - 1910, Voisin flyer, the 36th pilot's license holder, Raymonde De Laroche, takes her first solo flight. 1:02 - Video is a Sopwith Cuckoo deploying an aerial torpedo from 1918 or so - the first dedicated torpedo-dropping aircraft was the Short 184 entering production in 1915. 1:05 - I believe these are Neuport 17s in formation, introduced in 1916. 1:07 - Possibly Morane-Saulnier AN two-seat fighters built 1918 - not confident 1:12 - Maybe a Sopwith Snipe. Introduced 1918. 1:17 - 1927, Charles Lindbergh pilots a custom build plane named 'Spirit of St Louis' on the first transatlantic flight. 1:36 - 1939, the first turbojet aircraft to take flight, He. 178, takes flight, piloted by Erich Warsitz. 1:48 - B-17 bombers, introduced 1938, claimed to have dropped more bombs than any other aircraft. 1:52 - P-47 Thunderbolt, introduced 1942. Weighing up to and over 8 tonnes, was one of the heaviest fighter aircraft of WW2. 1:56 - Hawker Typhoon, introducd 1941. Noted as a highly successful ground attack aircraft. 2:02 - Messerschmitt Me 109, introduced 1937, the most produced fighter aircraft in history. 2:06 - Supermarine Spitfire, introduced 1938, achieved the fastest speed attained by a piston-engined fighter (mach 0.91) during dive tests in 1944. 2:10 - B-29 Super Fortress, introduced 1944, conducted the first combat nuclear bombing. Is the only aircraft to conduct such a bombing. 2:20 - 1947 - Chuck Yeager in a Bell X1 rocket plane achieves supersonic flight. 2:34 - 1952 - De Havilland Comet, the first commercial jet airliner, is introduced. 2:37 - 1945 - The first take-off and landing trials of a jet fighter are conducted aboard the carrier HMS Ocean using a De Havilland Vampire piloted by Eric Brown. 2:42 - Maybe a Hawker Hunter (int. 1951) or McDonnell F2H Banshee (int. 1948). 2:45 - Lockheed SR-71 is introduced in 1966. It remains the fastest air-breathing jet aircraft. 2:50 - 1969, Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the surface of the moon is conducted successfully. 3:07 - 1969, Concorde, the first supersonic airliner, takes its first flight. 3:15 - 1967, Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational V/STOVL jet fighter-bomber, takes its first flight. The first V/STOL jet was the Short SC.1, which first attempted VTOL in 1958. 3:18 - 1988, the heaviest aircraft ever built with the largest wingspan, Antonov An-225, takes its first flight. 3:22 - 1974, General Dynamics F-16, the first relaxed stability fly-by-wire fighter jet, takes its first flight. 3:25 - 2005, The Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner, takes its first flight 3:30 - 2006(?), the F-35B, the first fifth-generation V/STOL fighter, takes its first flight 3:34 - 2016, Solar Impulse conducts the first global flight via solar-power.

[@pmajudge]

HERE AGAIN LISTENING TO TALENTED MR CHRISTOPHER TIN 'S SUPER GREAT COMPOSISTION OF LEONARDO DA VINCI 'S " THE DREAM OF FLIGHT " POWERFUL & THUNDEROUS !!!! MUSIC . FROM U.K. (2022).

[@guidok.3723]

Really nice clips, perfectly fitting that wonderful song

[@bananacat3109]

I feel like this is what this song was made for

[@Andythespacekid]

Rip an-225 3:20

[@erlenelobo1324]

Inspirational video that restores resilience in aviation in the post - pandemic world.

[@tintenfish2935]

3:20 RIP Mriya :C

[@niklasmolen4753]

A dream is lost.

[@zachboyd4749]

@@niklasmolen4753 But even as one dream may be lost, another can be formed….

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

One dream may have been lost, but another will be rebuilt.

[@erusian_uav]

Russia has one corpse of An-225, but i'm not sure that our goverment will do something good with it

[@zachboyd4749]

@@erusian_uav The second 225 airframe isn't in Russian hands, she's in storage at the Sviatoshyn airfield near Kyiv, very much in Ukrainian possession.

[@sindobrandnew]

This song goes with everything, Nice compilation!

[@user-sg3wp2qs2b]

One day our future generations just like us, will look back and see how far we've come from 'simply' landing on the moon to reaching the limits of space and beyond.

[@thejameater5984]

My tear dropping by itself... We've come far....

[@user-cx6ze3ov7j]

Wow! 🤩🤩🤩 Thank you for the wonderful video!

[@erlenelobo1324]

At the lyric video- segment" Gaze towards the sky and you'll know that", a befitting tribute to Sir J.R.D Tata's Legacy to Civil Aviation and Air India owned by Tata Sons can be included to tap the potential of aviation historians and aviation photographers in India. Thank you RCA Photography for the Dream of Flight Video viewed by the Citizens of India and aviation enthusiasts on a daily basis for inspiration.

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

This actually made me cry a bit. Leonardo DaVinci would be proud of us. We went from flying just a hundred feet off the ground to toward the stars in less than 70 years. We have come so far. My favorite aircraft: Boeing 747 (a beautiful plane) Airbus A380 Antonov-225 Boeing 787 (AKA the Dreamliner) Boeing 777 (GE90 engines have an awesome sound when they start up) SR-71 Blackbird (One of the fastest planes ever built. Very badass looking. They're made of titanium, which is heat resistant)

[@shinxxed]

something about this video gives me chills

[@sealoftoaster1969]

2:48 This what give you goosebumps.

[@tingchen3114]

Our school sang this as a choir and it was beautiful

[@chiefcaptaincole9889]

The first human starships built should be named Orville and Wilbur Wright

[@GracemarieJohnson2763]

I agree! Those two men are the ones who started it all. Very fitting tribute to them.

[@50calM82A1]

USS Orville Wright USS Wilbur Wright Yeah that would be very fitting, a permanent mark on mankind's history...

[@RobertDecker417]

No wonder this song felt extra inspirational to me. ITS ABOUT FLIGHT.

[@canisxv9869]

No im not crying ... Honestly....

[@Tbear995]

Part of the wright brothers plane was sent to Mars with the new Mars rover

[@WarDragon72345]

Oh, I love this so much!

[@BenjaminNaman]

It's gorgeous... and I don't say that often.

[@PorknBeansss]

Freedom isn't Free.

[@pmajudge]

POWERFUL !!!! THUNDEROUS INDEED !! LOVE IT !! FROM U.K.

[@jer-gvary5705]

I´ve got video casettes of The Dream of flight document as a kid - the best documentary film ever!

[@lauritsfriberg7056]

When the Spirit of St-Louis touches down in France and other planes are escorting him at that altitude... what a sight this must have been. I can only imagine the noise, the tension and the emotion!

[@dontmindme9808]

Lovely, Absolutely lovely mate. Those 10 people who dsliked were probably drunk and couldnt hear and see right ngl.

[@jurassicjohn4869]

Civ 6 music. this is amazing

[@pequod_]

Chills man

[@alex7117]

very inspiring, approved

[@zephanish]

Underrated video

[@matthewlambermon-southam4418]

This needs to be played for the starship orbital launch!

[@dubstrap6095]

Crazy to think that took only 66 years from the first plane to the first man on the moon

[@disputedname]

Over 1 year of time and not a single dislike

[@user-iq4pj9wf9x]

If only Da Vinci could see this

[@R-OHAN]

Incredible

[@MrNiszuPL]

Goosebumps

[@geoffstemen3652]

I prefer this to the official music video.

[@richardmc-donald]

meilleures vidéos de l'histoire de l'aviation

[@anintrovert6676]

I want to be an inventor, and this is inspiring af.

[@anastaciaealmond2422]

"Does color of the sky means anything special to you? For me is that deep dark blue." -Ace Combat 7 For the sky and beyond.

[@253mario]

Santos Dumont - Brazil

[@JarodFarrant]

The Jetman Dubai team need to play this song at demonstrations

[@listenhereyoulittleshit6198]

Cry, don't cry, cry some more 😭

[@graceskerp]

Beautiful tribute, but where is Yuri Gagarin, first man in space?

[@IkarimTheCreature]

he also didnt mention that the Tu-144 was the first passenger super sonic aircraft

[@pyroparagon8945]

@@IkarimTheCreature an American likely made this.

[@arthurcosta2655]

yeah.. miss Santos-Dummond and Otto Lilienthal too

[@graceskerp]

@@pyroparagon8945 Yeah. Looking at you Enterprise credit run.

[@country_flyboy]

@@arthurcosta2655 Lilienthal was the man in the glider at the beginning. Santos Dumont, while influential, did not make the first heavier-than-air, powered flight, as the Wright Brothers did so the previous year.

[@kilotun8316]

Dedicated to all pioneers...

[@tuatarian6591]

I cannot wait for to shiver the sky

[@GartBeck]

Where's Alberto Santos Dummont? BTW a really great video, good job!

[@AemVR]

This gives me faith in humanity

[@drizzylmg752]

Chills

[@erlenelobo1324]

Ag Pilots in their monoplanes can also be included in this video for their contribution to agricultural aviation.

[@bertviq6035]

I would like to see more pioneers and less army planes in this video. I'm pretty sure that, when the lyrics talk about filling the universeve with wonder and glory, are not refering to bombing or killing ourselves. Per Aspera Ad Astra, Together.

[@dergrinsch1]

Diese ganzen atemberaubenden Bilder...lasst sie am Ende nicht umsonst gewesen sein. Reichen wir uns ebdlich ALLE die Hönde. Seht nur, was möglich ist.! One world, one nation! WE!

[@gyalsnextman4725]

I find it so strange watching old videos in black and white knowing these were real people who though the same and saw colour but now they’re all gone and no longer exist just something creeps me out about that when I watch old footage I think it’s may be to do with how we know nothing until we’re born and watching all this happen when I wasn’t even born but time was different as I just appeared one day in the course of 17 years whilst all these people were living lives and figuring out technology (thank you for coming to my ted talk)

[@fromnorway643]

2:48 Saturn V, still the KING of rockets! And here's the composer's own KZbin channel: kzbin.info/door/LtA9_lHZUPRSJcFKmCxYUA

[@user-tk5bz6gw2x]

nope, last i checked, the SpaceX's Starship has fully stacked (albeit then quickly removed again) and also, SLS also has been like, halfway done, so... yes, Saturn V has been dethroned

[@fromnorway643]

@@user-tk5bz6gw2x Neither the SLS nor the complete Super Heavy/Starship have flown yet, but once the Super Heavy is ready, the colossal waste of money called SLS (Senate Launch System) will become obsolete. It's also worth noting that neither the Block 1 or Block 1B versions of the SLS will match the payload capacity of the Saturn V.

[@user-tk5bz6gw2x]

@@fromnorway643 oh, interesting

[@mariaprange916]

@@user-tk5bz6gw2x Starship is cool, and definitely the future. But the Saturn V just has a majesty about it, and a legacy, that can simply never be matched. Even once it's outdated technologically, the legacy will live on. The Saturn V was also mostly hand crafted when it came to the touch ups. Each one was a little different. All of them did what they were intended to do. And at the time of it's flight, the Saturn V was the safest rocket ever built for manned spaceflight.

[@user-tk5bz6gw2x]

@@mariaprange916 huh, very interesting trivia,thanks

[@gabitex]

Such beautiful creations would inevitably be used in war.

[@oblivion5390]

Every human inventions can be used in both peaceful and destructive way.

[@gabitex]

@@oblivion5390 oh sure, you can use something like a coffee brewer to kill someone, prolly by bashing the sucker on the head, or use a fridge to store ammunition and such, even a laptop can be used to kill somebody, if you hit them hard enough, you'll lose the laptop, but the guy will be dead. Dumbass.

[@townaldtrump1316]

Nice video!

[@mtfgamma6257]

I love this, but, I think Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 deserve a place here, I mean, the first manmade object to orbit earth, and the first human in space, but those are minor gripes I suppose

[@kingsman4628]

We Can!

[@user-jc4il5kc6y]

It starts from one early homosapiens who saw the bird... And now going with the homosapiens who are trying to get to the moon again.

[@pamibeau]

Great video, I am sure Christopher Tin would agree. But not to split hairs, 1969 Apollo 11 was Man's First Moon Landing; (Christmas) 1968 Apollo 8 was Man's First Flight to the Moon! §:c)

[@RCA-Photography]

Thanks! I understand what you mean. When I was making the video, I wanted to add 1 big achievement in space flight. I was doubting which space mission to add. So I chose between the Apollo 8, Apollo 11 mission and Yuri Gagarin's first flight in to space.. Finally I went for Apollo 11, as Apollo 11, for me, is perhaps the biggest achievement in the history of (space)flight. Maybe I should had added "first landing on the moon" as text to clear that out.. Greetings.

[@animadian]

It is astonishing to me the amount of technological progress mankind has made in flight in a century! We went from the first airplane in 1903 to sending a rocket to the moon in 1969!

[@williamqian8020]

It would be nice if you could add the Salyut and Voyager, the first space station, and the first interstellar flight.

[@zathary564]

m8 you forgot to put rotorcraft but still a good video, liked!

[@logicdude1]

You have researched “Flight” *random quote*

[@godfredawowani-sebuabe3013]

boy o boy

[@RetroAmateur1989]

2:48 I like how it does a Danny Elfman here

[@odufoteafolabi4118]

progress after progress. at a cost, but progress nonetheless.

[@FluffyAdmiral]

That should be a theme for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020...

[@chiefcaptaincole9889]

FS has its own epic theme :)

[@melonmusk6464]

Well, it is in civ vi

[@davidsipos5453]

3:20 Rip Mrija =(

[@despacitodaniel801]

Fuck the Covenants, the Jar Jar Binks, the Uruks the dragons the... everything.... Mankind ftw.

[@PopTartNeko]

Hmm. I really think you should've started with balloons and airships but this is a great music video

[@RCA-Photography]

I you look closely you can see a glimpse of a painting about the Montegolfier brothers.

[@semyonsychev5906]

2:50 Gagarin: POYEKHALI!

[@Molisa682]

there is absolutely no way you made a dream about flight montage and didn't even mention Santos Dumont