The First Flying Machines - Failures and Mishaps

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A series of vintage flying contraptions from the early 1900's. Many of these designs did not work out, but some of them went on to make aviation history.
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Note: this video contains archived public domain / licensed footage. This footage serves documentary purposes on world history and is to be viewed as educational.

[@theweirdguy124]

Wish i could time travel and bring these guys here just so they can see what their hard work and dreams looks like today. They deserve it.

[@suikun245]

That's exatly what I was thinking.

[@beyblademetalchampionship4382]

Become the flash

[@movieclub3888]

@Tatakae but the problem is if they see how today airplanes work then they don't give there hard work in this things..so many things erased from the history and it's very bad for our future.

[@rltt379]

@@TurboIshak612 well the video was basically a 9/11 joke, if you think about it xD

[@rltt379]

@@jussieronen3707 yes, show em what they did xD

[@roberthuffer6591]

Even though a lot of their designs failed, you really have to admire and respect the creativity and bravery of these early aviation pioneers.

[@MrYport]

ahh yes pioneers in aviation 8:55

[@desertwolf8089]

And their sheer stupidity for not doing the math and testing models. Now that's genius!

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@@desertwolf8089 Geez, you are very mean.

[@desertwolf8089]

@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo Disasters like the Titanic, Andrea Doria, Apollo One, Challenger, Columbia and many airplane crashes could have been avoided by adequate testing and simply doing the math. But Capitalist America who's Patron Saint is Judas Iscariot, doesn't give a damn about human lives!

[@Blue-Apple-fc9eo]

@@desertwolf8089 But still we should atleast respect them for trying atleast, You don’t have to act like a jackass.

[@worldfacts944]

They are those legends who never afraid of failures.

[@atmedolphintheshark963]

We need to be ashamed of ourselfs for letting us down by being afraid of failures

[@aidasmatulaitis5175]

The fact that they build mashines makes them legends in my eyes

[@heatrn11]

Look at Elon Musk, his rockets used to go nuclear 🥴🥴🥴

[@SG-gv3tl]

Salute sir...

[@ibrahimdagher8885]

And are racist

[@thefeldgeister2961]

To my untrained non-engineer eye, I'm very impressed with the helicopter at 3:54. It doesn't get very far off the ground, but it appears to be mostly stable and the pilot seems to have it under control. I'd say that was a job well done.

[@AJakked]

As an engineer I was also impressed

[@bryanphillips7252]

I liked that one too. I can't see a tail rotor so he must have designed some sort of counter-rotating main rotor system to cancel out the torque effect - very clever!

[@davidh6300]

10/10 fór effort

[@pan4es30]

​@@bryanphillips7252к 52😂

[@continental_drift]

@@bryanphillips7252 Looks to me like contra-rotating blades (Coaxial), that design doesn't require a tail rotor. So yeah, you're right it was very well done for a pioneering effort.

[@atuldwivedi9432]

We should respect their hard work and pain while trying all these..

[@juINDIAn]

Its completely wrong brother, indiams made pushpaka before this.

[@vaibhavmahobiya9129]

And shivkar Bapuji talpade he was invented wey before it

[@juINDIAn]

@@vaibhavmahobiya9129 just tell bro here we are using cow dug and urine for treatment of cancer and covid 19. These people didnt show any our inventions.

[@adityasinghbhati9954]

Modern bharatiyas should research about the vimanas mentioned in puranas too or u guys trust on whites only

[@codecows7956]

proud to be a മലയാളി don’t spread your bjp sanki bullshit here .

[@ihendrawijaya]

Glad they invented the camera first

[@triceramops3280]

@rightos sid They are perfect anytime

[@lovelife8360]

🤣🤣🤣Fact

[@lovelife8360]

@Charlotte katakuri Just Because U Think It's Racist Makes U The Racist One Not Him . Of Course White People Are Perfect In Godly Time It's Fact . What U Gonna Say No . I Don't See Nothing Racist It's Only Fact . I Don't Wtf Is Going On In The World Everything We Said It's Racist These Days 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤔🤔🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ . About The Way R.I.P Floyd 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 . Floyds Death Was A Racist Of Course And Fuck That Cop .

[@M1Z13_98]

@rightos sid hahaha😂

[@miguelcordoba7842]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really grateful to those who have these bold ideas so that we can fly in the sky today

[@jandoerlidoe3412]

Almost none of what is shown here did contribute to modern aeronautics....

[@user-lc6qu9yu2o]

69

[@yifeiliu7160]

D33_ DRN0 my apologies

[@giorgiofera]

Really they are just crazy people. L'aviazione, al momento di questi finti esperimenti esisteva già, si può capire dal fatto che i modelli sono stati creati ispirandosi ad aerei già esistenti. Lo capisce dalle eliche finte di alcuni modelli.

[@thetruthispotenza3602]

Bold.... it's down right nonsense at times

[@Roybwatchin]

As crazy and ridiculous as many of these seem, these guys were laying the groundwork for later advancements in air travel. My hats off to the determination and commitment of these guys.

[@sprintershepherd4359]

yeah but half of them were still morons

[@yafuker6046]

And within a mere 30-year time frame, somebody got it right and Lucky Lindy lands in Paris.

[@kenoliver8913]

Nope. Most of those in this film were amateurs who did no maths or physics and consequently pursued complete dead ends (eg ornithopters). The advances were made by professional physicists and engineers - people who paid attention at school and who did their sums.

[@ZelenskyTheMadClown]

Air Travel? This guy? 8:48

[@Roybwatchin]

@@ZelenskyTheMadClown Well, not all of them of course, lol.... Some of them were just out of their minds, as was this guy.

[@kimhansung6109]

*"While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."* I'd like to dedicate this quote to every single one of them. That every last piece of their effort never went to waste.

[@theunknownexistence8228]

I owe you one 😉

[@ghosthacks4016]

People will call them crazy and wierd. Yes but we see genius

[@eduardoroxas8149]

But this days no one shows the trial flight of the ultimate flying machine ( the UFO like technology ) still highly classified or out of this world ?

[@tomasnokechtesledger1786]

Nice quote Man.

[@yesno7889]

That 8:42 one though, they need to at least learn some physics bruh.

[@ikkusoft]

Respect to those legends who made our lifes easier. Feels sorry for their failures.

[@osamabinladen824]

Yes bro

[@whiskeyburns5230]

Proud? Of their will to fly

[@debrajkarmakar1783]

feel proud not sorry

[@osamabinladen824]

@@debrajkarmakar1783 I'm proud

[@ravivarma8919]

@@osamabinladen824 ,,ho ho

[@abirhossainfarabi3766]

These are the real legends. Without them, we would never have dreamed of flying in the sky

[@ninja1676]

Without this we wouldn't reach to the moon

[@ninja1676]

@@zacxz147 You are killing KZbin Comment section

[@saleemgamer169]

@@zacxz147 the people Idiot

[@dannywicaksana]

zacxz fuckyou

[@abirhossainfarabi3766]

@@dannywicaksana no bad comment 😑😳😶

[@bigtrout]

It's funny how they thought some of these outrageous contraptions may fly. Having said that, one must remember we knew nothing about flight. My hat's off to the inventiveness, ingenuity, and engineering they put into these inventions. And in spite of the failures, these guys were paving the way for what we have developed to this day.

[@shakti4love]

It's not a failure.. It is the part of success.

[@crad5476]

Its still a failure.

[@ATankEnjoyer]

@@crad5476 without all of these experiments, nobody would have figuredt out flight or aerodynamics.

[@crad5476]

@@ATankEnjoyer You don't say...

[@bewarebeware35]

Failure is part of success, so those are failures.

[@ATankEnjoyer]

@@bewarebeware35 You mean establish advancements towards success.

[@mixrable1212]

If only you could bring these people to the future and take them to the airport. If only

[@Mikelica69]

Imagine...

[@flico4255]

They def got to see jets This is the early 20th century Maybe not modern but still

[@havnav2842]

That would be a great Dr Who episode

[@rltt379]

I mean nowadays we got people flying in buildings too and I don't see them getting praised for it.

[@rltt379]

@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan I know I know xD, but you know how it sounds, when you say aww, why can't we have these people flying in buildings all the time in our airports nowadays... now relax, it's obviously a joke, but you do get what I'm talking about, right?

[@smithjones3548]

The fact that some of the more spectacular crashes seem to have left the pilots to tell the tale is amazing in itself.

[@lcfflc3887]

today they all would have died, this people were different.

[@robbiemckenzie7822]

IKR

[@angelcartagena2375]

@@lcfflc3887 main reason these contractions didn’t work, steel balls are to heavy. Respect to all.

[@malcolmn.pearson6103]

Staged crashes. Flying into buildings at shows was a big attraction.

[@WatchFelineSpine]

some of these inventions are pepega

[@tuberhead]

1st rule: never go higher than you're willing to fall. I'm amazed that the guy who took the dive down the cliff face even survived. They thought that the flapping action was essential.

[@Grapefruit5000]

This is actually really inspiring. Imagine if they just gave up trying. We would've never had planes. Never give up doing what you believe in.

[@skymhook]

Most of these planes are from the 20s and 30s, long after the Wright Brothers flight.

[@gubadagoober]

War would change by a long shot pearl harbor would be a hell lot different

[@skull1161]

The only reason planes are so advanced is because the military's of the world funded the research of them.

[@cpt.shmitt7387]

United Navy Not necessarily, the interwar period was known as "The Golden age of Flight" Howard Hughes, Doolittle, Billy Mitchell all helped to advance flight.

[@jordanezell5132]

Don’t forget helicopters

[@behramali9589]

just imagine how many people have died trying to bring revolution..........and imagine those people saw the planes nowadays

[@Leon-mi6vz]

coldfishman ME In fact many technologies we use today come from war

[@alvarolopes2111]

@@chopin1894 yhea like russia and USA strealling all the tecnhology of germany after the war.

[@alvarolopes2111]

@@chopin1894 Bcs of the german tecnhology

[@alvarolopes2111]

@@chopin1894 the B2 Spririt is inspired in the Holten Ho 229 a german prototype plane u should check it out.

[@kamalnayanrai801]

@@chopin1894 In Ww2 Germans were fighting with German

[@karakondzula1388]

Have to admire how daring they were, especially with those machines that looked like helicopters, that was so dangerous.

[@entertoby6698]

I feel the machines that look like helicopters were the most dangerous cause they could loose a head. They were close to making a helicopter tho, which is impressive!

[@PanzerChicken69]

Agreed, very brave indeed! And what many people overlook nowadays is that most flying machines were build by a single person or a small group of people. Imagine having to conceptualise, build and fly a machine yourself without any prior knowledge of working aircraft. Theres a picture of Louis Bleriot moments before he took off for his iconic channel crossing flight. By than (1910) the airplane was allready invented but his face shows mortal fear... these men were actual heroes.

[@entertoby6698]

@@PanzerChicken69 that's true! They had no other designs to go off of, they have to come up with their own.

[@michaelszczys8316]

That one gyro thing actually got off the ground! Looked like it needed a bit more horsepower.

[@strongcool]

J

[@Coopdog0108]

Massive respect to those that sacrificed their own lives for humanity. What absolute legends

[@caalcb7]

Respect for this lads sacrifice themselves in the name of science.

[@aryapanangsang2497]

in the name of knowlegde and curiosity

[@aryapanangsang2497]

also in the name of human's future

[@aryapanangsang2497]

also science and technology is different

[@emraldswrd]

@@aryapanangsang2497 also just shut up if u dont know what u r saying

[@Sa.d.bo26]

May they rest in respect without there sacrifice we wouldnt be flying

[@Besitzerstolz]

"So, did it ever work?" "Not yet, no." "Sounds good, just yeet me down the cliff!"

[@Junokaii]

How that guy lived is nothing short of a miracle. Didn't even look like he got cut or broke anything.

[@Ghareebz]

abbas ibn firnas reacted haha

[@MichaelJ44]

Junokaii He probably thought in a few wars before hand

[@jaytech1962]

Yo I died when I read this lol I knew exactly what part you were referring to lmao

[@AbugDog]

paparker lmao

[@yuneskasasbeh7079]

Imagine all these ppl see how planes are now and knowing that they did our future

[@itsmykey9103]

To bad they’re all dead tho

[@0721at2am]

Ramon Ramos , this is how they died kzbin.info/www/bejne/imqpZJ5tbd-mfKM

[@MrCurly]

Create machines that cause death. Imagine they see their inventions used to drop bombs and nukes

[@jakepaul4272]

They didnt intend to hurt other people MrCurlyFries, they just wanted to soar through the sky, but other bad people saw their dreams as a war machine.

[@genosvarmillion8614]

And now humans ruining the future

[@petercook8679]

It's incredible that we have video of these early attempts at flight. Moving pictures really did change the way we see history and the people that risked their lives to make it happen.

[@harshit_ai]

It's all started with a desire, Human mind is beautiful

[@FarhanKhan-hq7pu]

The creator more beautiful 😍

[@AndrewTate370]

We are made in the image of the living God the Creator of all things

[@socramzetroc1535]

10:59 oh my goodness 11:03 nevermind

[@davecrupel2817]

XD

[@sanderanocic]

😂😂

[@NumericalConfusion]

I was like how the fudge does that even work but then....oh nvm

[@Rek_Rc]

Yeah they trolled us from 100 years ago. Well done lol.

[@piyushkumarkaushik45]

🎃🎃🎃🎃

[@SandeepTandale]

Failure is the first step towards success. They are real heroes...

[@BOEINGMAX-nn6ku]

For 1893 years it was the biggest dream in human history to be able to fly like birds. These brave men often gave their life to make this dream become reality. Finally, in 1893, Otto Lilienthal achieved the unthinkable and flew with his glider over a distance of several meters. It was the birth of aviation. Just 2 years later he died when he lost control of his glider and crashed. 76 years later, in 1969, the 2 most famous aircraft of all time had their successful maiden flights: The Concorde and the Boeing 747.

[@philsmodelmaking2260]

and there was another rather longer flight made in 1969 made by three men named Neil, Buzz and Michael!

[@roostercogburn3771]

Good Morning, I thought the 747 started flying in 1973? And I thought the Concorde was later yet. Unless you're not talking about the French version.

[@CB-ke7eq]

TIL: Humanity is only 2024 years old

[@marlongime]

Nothing beats the passion to invent of the people in history.

[@james5637]

Astronaut John Young's father remembered when the Wright brothers made their first flights, he was just a boy. He lived long enough to see his own son walk on the moon ...that was just one lifetime of innovation thanks to people like this 🖖🏼

[@sarathchandran3503]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKrQaWlrebyKqKs Maybe this is the right video for you

[@pinekel8987]

@@sarathchandran3503 stop self advertising

[@sarathchandran3503]

@@pinekel8987 Take it easy bro...

[@sarathchandran3503]

@gurungsanjay do you know PRAVEEN MOHAN.?

[@Diplofer1]

No one has been to moon

[@saravanandilipkumar1258]

We shouldn't laugh at them. Because of them, we know the aircraft as it is.

[@TwoLotus2]

Not really. The vast majority of those ideas are really awful dead-ends. I think most were just circus stunts, rather than any serious attempts at flight.

[@Rodrigodrt]

As said, most of these are absolutely stupid crap and didn't contributed with anything whatsoever, it's not like we had the intellect of a caveman about 100 years ago, specially that moron of top of the car... You donr need much to realize it would be a disaster.

[@sleepysakamoto]

You're right, thanks to them the wings of an airplane flop

[@SyedShahArifQadri]

chutiya who is laughing we all are seeing the past of how we learnt to fly

[@hiddekooijman8165]

@@TwoLotus2 thanks to the stupid ideas we know what not to do. So even they are helpful

[@readmore3634]

Love the barn/house crash... @ 2:02 you can see the paper thin walls, roof and especially the chimney made from cardboard like material...must of been fun.

[@SIRDIY-ps1wd]

I could imagine how hard it was. The efforts of planning , studying and the humiliating experience of failing. We should thank them for not giving up. Sorry to those who did not believe them before.

[@billyjames7008]

These guys where the pioneers of the saying "hold my beer".

[@bruhmoments9993]

Were*

[@amelinowydruch652]

Hahahahahaha. Briliant

[@StalinJunior]

Potrzymajcie mi piwo, bo idę mu zajebać za kradnięcie Polskich tekstów XD

[@mattow30]

Guy with rocket backpack: hi I'm Jonny Knoxville's grandpa and welcome to jackass

[@krzysobludnik]

@@StalinJunior +1 byczq

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

Makes you think about all the everyday things we use and take for granted, and how much trial and error was involved until someone got it right.

[@factfilescienceandtechnolo839]

आखिर हवा क्या होता है? जाने इस विडियो में #shortsvideo #jastaag #sciencefacts

[@gertcoku1732]

Good point 👍👍

[@franciscouderq1100]

...You mean till someone got it wright

[@spartes4024]

@@franciscouderq1100 Nice one

[@customfantasyhotwheels]

I told that to my wife as she was putting her strap-on on and she bursted out 😂

[@randycoppola2069]

We went to the Moon less than 70 years from these chuckleheads.

[@Fred-O-86]

Respect to the brave pioneers of aviation especially those that died in the line of duty. Their hard work and persistence is what made aviation what it is today.

[@alexviev4330]

Как одинаково иногда мыслят люди дословно выражая свою мысль на разных языках ! Глубокое уважение романтикам и родоначпльникам авиации,которую мы знаем снгодня ! Без их энтузиазма этого бы не было. А ведь это не намного более,чем 100 лет назад. Слава пионерам авиации !

[@Fred-O-86]

@@alexviev4330 sorry I can't read Russian

[@ruthparker1140]

​@@Fred-O-86("Sgt.J."). "push the Translate to English." ✌️. Sorry. Normally there is a Translate button. 👍✌️

[@DonFahquidmi]

Knowing what we know today we could be inclined to ridicule many of these early attempts. We have to remember that few of them were trained engineers or physicists and that most institutions of higher learning taught that it was not possible or that if it was it would be decades into the future before it was achieved. Most of these dreamers were ridiculed for it

[@sprintershepherd4359]

@@Fred-O-86 right click and scroll down to where it says translate to English you igonrant fuck he said this @alexviev4330 3 months ago How people sometimes think the same way verbatim expressing their thoughts in different languages! Deep respect for the romantics and ancestors of aviation, which we know today! Without their enthusiasm this would not have been possible. But it's not much more than 100 years ago. Glory to the pioneers of aviation!

[@Schpoople]

It’s crazy how simple some of these are yet so understandable. “Those birds can fly... let’s try this.” One species observing another. Simplicity of creation. So damn cool.

[@shakilontheway]

Absolutely my bro ❤️

[@kamdevil]

These gentlemen lost lives and money and time just so we could be on air. Respect ...!

[@germaxicus6670]

The craftsmanship on some of these is outstanding. Putting together a steel frame and intricate wing designs must have taken many hard hours of labor.

[@howardchambers9679]

If only they had aerodynamic wings and a decent lightweight engine... Some of those "helicopters" looked really promising

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

@@sarathchandran3503 damn, you're in these comments pimping that video like you owe it money or something!

[@sarathchandran3503]

@@shelbyseelbach9568 I'm a big fan of him. More about it's lost knowledge

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

@@sarathchandran3503 its a little obnoxious, if we're just being honest.

[@sarathchandran3503]

@@shelbyseelbach9568 sorry.. If the comment irritating for you

[@frankfurger1754]

Half of these: Really creative and impressive designs The other half: Welcome to 1892 this is jackass

[@Dooncat]

@@TugIronChief 1:18 hahhahhahah umbrella saucer

[@TSAR2010]

@@Dooncat yes

[@DL-kc8fc]

It must be taken into account that 99 percent of them were do-it-yourselfers. Even today, these do-it-yourselfers would fasten their "components" with leather straps to a bow, freely insert propellers and wheels, produce structures that cannot support themselves, produce short fragile wings, etc. Glider manufacturers, who have existed for a long time, knew very well where these amateurs they are making a mistake. Therefore, the experiments of these amateurs became attractive for another invention - a camera, which already at that time provided entertainment to cheer the audience.

[@comraderoman4299]

you just made me die of laughter

[@HAFIS_TNJ]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/goqUpGl9eN6gjK8

[@1.4142]

In history class, it's usually like "Oh, one day these brothers just came up with an airplane." But these people's trials and failures should be equally acknowledged.

[@jeffwoods9816]

True some of these designs have their place in history. However, the wright brothers took years to create their flyer. Including tons of kites, unmanned and manned gliders.

[@imwhatim7259]

@@jeffwoods9816 and finally wright brothers stolen design from india who created unmanned aircraft

[@thaliskaua760]

@@jeffwoods9816 eles não criarão o avião, ele criarão o plandor, quem e o pai do avião é Santos drumon

[@rickcerrado]

Santos Dumont

[@mathimed]

@R A that is the thing there was no common sense, only theories and dreams.

[@davidcummings2020]

I love it . All these guys just went FULL SEND and we wouldn't be where we are today with out their failures and lessons learnt.

[@RenoLaringo]

If it wasn't for the rest of them who refrain from playing such crazy games, we wouldn't be there at all😅

[@liukang3545]

@@RenoLaringo 😂😂😂😂

[@MattII33]

I’m honestly really glad to live in a time where we have stuff like this all figured out. They figured all of this stuff out for us and it makes me feel pretty grateful.

[@tybscitchaitanyagorule4954]

So how greatful the future kids will be

[@spensert4933]

Don't forget novocaine!

[@avadaedavra3476]

Do you fly all those cars?

[@rapatacush3]

Now is your turn to take all these stuff and make it better.

[@pchead]

I wish I could bring this people to present time from past and show them an airport And say them this is all because of you

[@savejeff15]

I would prefer showing them a helmet first.

[@ghdusk7865]

@@savejeff15 lmao

[@0721at2am]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/imqpZJ5tbd-mfKM

[@0721at2am]

フライクライFlykryy 😱😱

[@pchead]

@@0721at2am what the hell was that video? lol 😂

[@arpangargsarmah5787]

They actually tried something that was far advanced for their time. And some even got close. It's not failure, its lesson learnt. Kudos Mankind !!

[@torstenscholz6243]

True. There were dozens if not hundred attempts like those, but then someday the Wright brothers said "Hold my beer", and it all started from there. Only sixty years later people were able to build supersonic aircraft.

[@Chio_OB]

I remember watching this awesome content about 40 years ago, thanks for keeping it fresh!

[@FedJimSmith]

"Every attempt is not a waste effort, it's a stepping stone to improve your next" - I

[@ptyo3892]

Nice quote bro...👍

[@raymondpatrick430]

4:00 Dude nearly had a working helicopter decades before it was perfected! That's incredible.

[@alexwillis7093]

That one impressed me the most. Sure it needed work but it did lift off the ground and fly, in 1922. The French built one in 1907 it also lifted off the ground. Amazing

[@bpd231martinko9]

My opinion is that it was a working helicopter!

[@bpnk5237]

@@bpd231martinko9 nope

[@Optimiser113]

Yes that was the best one on this video.

[@billpugh58]

@@bpnk5237 it was. I saw it fly off the ground and move maybe 300 yards. That makes it a working helicopter.

[@loongyukhou6304]

*We also can take some time to appreciate that comments are not turned off like some others vid*

[@JustSheepsie]

We may laugh at their failures, but these are the true pioneers of aviation.

[@tham_jeednt6720]

This video is a valuable reference to engineering students

[@puertousbmonkey]

and medicine students

[@tham_jeednt6720]

@@puertousbmonkey 😆

[@kongthao9935]

And crash dummies because safety wasn't so important then.

[@wim0104]

upstart culture from a hundred years ago! how times have not changed :-)

[@techgarden5670]

S brother

[@kenbob1071]

The line between bravery and lunacy is a fine one.

[@osamabinladen824]

Yep

[@vaisakhk4564]

@@osamabinladen824 oh Bin Laden you are back!!! Do you remember me?

[@osamabinladen824]

@@vaisakhk4564 No. Have we met before?

[@vaisakhk4564]

@@osamabinladen824 yes Bin Laden. Back then my name was appu appu

[@atomic8947]

For Men !

[@ajp2260]

The sophisticated live we are enjoying today is at the cost of many injuries and deaths..... Let's respect it .....

[@steveroberts278]

The knowledge we gain from failure is priceless

[@WSOJ3]

Some of the ideas were spot on, the problem was they didn’t have a proper engine to power the aircraft.

[@ph4nt0m22]

The first one to succeed with an actual engine was Santos Dumont

[@zeruthlesssoldat8169]

Is that like stone can fly if it have enough speed?

[@Drojah]

@@zeruthlesssoldat8169 the more weight = the more thrust you need to become airborne. In theory yes you could make a stone airplane if you really wanted and had the right equipment. It is just that that isn't necessarily the best material for the job.

[@lxldigvijaylxl]

They not build thrust .... Which is essential .. but efforts are precious.

[@PanzerChicken69]

Otto Lilienthal flew gliders around 1880. The problem with propulsion was to have an engine with the right horsepower to weight ratio.

[@Mjdecker1234]

They really did try everything back then.

[@jordan6988]

Crazy to think they didnt have any computers to help them design this shit or automation. They built something and tried it. Fuck the risk. Obviously lmao look at the guy flew into the side of the barn lmfao

[@jordan6988]

Also imagine being alive when the first car the first plane had been invented. that must of been surreal

[@CryptoKernels]

Jordan I think that humans in flight is surreal in itself. Really think about it, less than 120 years ago. Man had never in our entire existence been in flight.

[@FRailFan]

@@CryptoKernels That statement makes me question though. Did we not consider Hot Air Balloon's a form of flight back then? Or even now for that matter? I mean, they existed since colonial time and all. Sure they're slow hard to control and unreliable. But honestly they're kind of a primitive form of the Helicopter no?

[@jakefisher1638]

Yeah alot of these concepts are super misguided tho. Almost as if there was no science involved at all just the engineering of blind ideas

[@bioguy8329]

Categories: "What if we made it taller?" "What if we made it spin?" "(Crashes into building)" "This is enough thrusters, right?" "Maybe if we copy the birds." The fact that we have planes, helicopters and rockets today is owed to these people who, determined to get some sick air, were willing to try everything they could.

[@justasentientboeing7378]

You forgot about "Extremely messed up wing shape that definitely won't work but we might as well try it"

[@bigsteve6729]

@@justasentientboeing7378 you only know it won't work now because someone tried it.

[@theorangekindle4565]

Risky, but it shows here that it is in decent way.

[@justasentientboeing7378]

@@bigsteve6729 True

[@joey6923]

You are talking as if they achieved world peace

[@jacobkudrowich]

I feel like this was so much fun to have been apart of. Makes me hope that there is something our generation can give to the world or can we only produce influencers?

[@wagnermaiapets9654]

I can realize the hopeness in their eyes, even when they fail...

[@onionskin3254]

I can't even see their eyes

[@Tionic929]

@@onionskin3254 lmfao

[@sadkrebssdownfallparody2327]

0:18 this isn't a failure. Pilots were doing very popular "crash show" in the early 1900's. Even if they were dying often

[@0PageAccess]

Oh, I was wondering why there were multiple ones like that..

[@ChapuleTaylor]

that seems pretty reasonable to me.

[@jonas2545]

Tf

[@taffythegreat1986]

Sad Krebs's Downfall Parody you’re right. Who bloody put that house there lol 😂

[@Ben-zs5vd]

I think they did it during the great depression because interest in air shows were decreasing cause of lack of money

[@giraffeman326]

None of these are failures. They all succeeded in playing an important role in the development of aviation… one step at a time.

[@lysandroabelcher2592]

Yeah. Tell that to those killed while trying.

[@giraffeman326]

@@lysandroabelcher2592 their sacrifices were not in vain, as despise their deaths, their testing in aviation was revolutionary for the time. It was of course going to be dangerous, but they were brave enough to experiment with it.

[@MrYport]

@@giraffeman326 a lot of these were dead ends and one offs that didn't push the envelope of aviation. I'm glad they made them though!

[@giraffeman326]

@@MrYport they were still necessary steps in the dawn of aviation. Of course they were all bound to fail. That’s how you learn after all. You try something, you fail, and you learn from it. That’s how aviation was too. With all the failures someone was eventually going to succeed.

[@MrYport]

@@giraffeman326 I was just joking that some of these were very unscientific, like if a few friends and I tried to come up with a novel flying machine based on zero physics I do commend the effort and spirit!

[@Creepingsteelgarage]

This is one of the best videos I've seen what a time to be alive

[@scientificthinker6997]

what ever we have today is because of them .HUGE RESPECT.

[@CGRCOOL]

No not really. These foolish attempts didn't help to invent the flying machine. Invented aircraft is an another process

[@chanthystudios6291]

ួលឆឆឆឆឆឆ ។ឪឦឲ

[@-SeKaRvIjAy2522]

@@CGRCOOL FUCKED OFF UR COMMENT .......I think u are not an Engineer ......???

[@emiliobit]

@@CGRCOOL true

[@maulana-160]

It's so heartwarming to see how our ancestors in the past trying to do something like this, we as a human, a living creature with no wing to fly, with no gill to dive, but with our intelligence, we lead the world

[@mateen1979]

Because of them we are able to enjoy planes rockets and chopper

[@tybscitchaitanyagorule4954]

We lead the world and we mess up the world 😂

[@George_Jacob]

@Sandman Slim modern humans* not all :)

[@Nockturnmortem]

That's an illusion from our mind. We humans believe ourselves so intelligent and great but we are nothing but another being of this "planet". We aren't the wisest being here.we arent even the most diverse or numerous of the animals, that place being of the Beetle or Scarab. They were the symbol of eternity in Egypt for a reason. Back to our comment, no, we don't lead, we don't own the world. We are stupid enough to experience war and crime and the pain it produces but our " world " is basically a war hell. We believe in something called democracy which is basically the belief that somehow our Political Representatives happens to wash their sins in the river of the forgetting waters each four years, and we embrace em with open arms when they come clean and good for election. You think that's for a wise race? Of course there are better than the rest. We are living walking in the shoulders of those Giants, the few goods and comfort we know are because excellent humans wanted to give us a better world. A world of peace of fullness, a world that's still a dream because of us.

[@mosinnagant3162]

And people wonder why NASA's words are so important for many of us. “we have lift-off"

[@rustic2975]

Exactly

[@pachinkomachine7347]

Well these are planes, not rockets

[@CHARLIE-MF-BROWN]

@@pachinkomachine7347 Both within the science of flight... Ya dam Hill Billy!

[@pachinkomachine7347]

Charlie Mutha Fucken Brown but let’s be honest, rocket science is a bit harder than creating planes

[@CHARLIE-MF-BROWN]

@Sheronn W. exacto-mundo

[@davidharding1732]

I think I saw a few of these clips in the opening sequence of "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"... which reminds me... I need to look that movie up and watch it again as an old grandpa, rather than the young child I was.

[@PEPSI-s4r]

I was thinking the same thing! I am 38 but we had that movie when I was a little kid. I think John Wayne was in it....but not totally sure because I was a kid.

[@devangperiwal4031]

Most of the ideas were like,"Why can birds fly? Because they have wings."

[@aryanchugh2303]

May be they should have red bull . Because red bull gives you wings

[@emerandu]

Nowadays u will get publicly humiliated for doing something different n unusual thanks to social media

[@IIFrozenFlame]

@@emerandu Real and True

[@gopalmanemi3423]

@@IIFrozenFlame bv CV Jill uoo9úújkkj

[@el-uk1zp]

Exactly

[@mmicoski]

It's amazing how creative these people were. Filming then was so expensive that when they decided to film an experiment, they seriously believed it could work. I imagined how crazy were the non filmed experiments...

[@OsbornTramain]

I think the camera people filmed it because they thought it would fail......not because it would work.....we have modern automobiles in these films from the 1920's....this was all after the Wright Brothers and in some cases after WWI......the people filming are more than likely there to capture Death or Destruction, not an invention success.

[@sandgrownun66]

It just shows that crazy people existed then too. Maybe they should have asked the Wright Brother's first?

[@docreyaz2370]

Next time I fly in the aeroplane, I would salute all these gentlemen who made my flight possible.

[@maggs131]

I agree 100%.... except the guy at 9:00 I cant fathom why hes doing a headstand down a rollercoaster 🤔

[@erickrocket]

sANTOS dUMONT WAS THE GUY WHO INVENT THE AIRPLANE>

[@radreader01]

Thank you for this great documentary and the display of their bravery

[@minimaxxi1]

6:13 man flew just a couple seconds, but he knew, he had faith that it someday would be possible, true legends

[@cousin._.nxiety4073]

That had me in tears ngl imagine being able to achieve the unreachable, that which was still an unexplored peak that wasn't conquered yet and you become the first of very few hundreds of people to experience it even if in a small part

[@andyb2028]

The way he stood right up and thrust his hands up shows his excitement that he took flight

[@Redstoneprofi01]

He looked so happy there

[@Redstoneprofi01]

@R A yea out of your sight it is possible because planes exist. But in the time these things were built it wasnt that an easy explanation Fish can breathe underwater, humans cant Probably in a few hundred years there will be someone like you and say ,,of course its possible" but we at this time dont know

[@unhommequicourt]

The most impressive thing is that he survived the fall

[@shredder3055]

For me none them was a failure. They tried their idea, That's the reason we are now flying.

[@avinashrae6203]

Very true. We owe all to them

[@CrazyCoupleDIY]

exactly

[@basketballplayer011]

No it’s not, they tried and tried and tried until this one smart dude just woke up thinking he was going to start off with a small replica and it worked.

[@amirulridhwan3971]

Thanks to them for making the idea .. thanks to Allah for making birds as inspiration to them .. Allah the all knowing .. may Allah bless us all 😊

[@redluckog7008]

Abstractism no one asked... the fuck?

[@FlamingToaster]

I love the fact that instead of mocking these failed flight attempts this video has a really profound undertone - while some attempts might seem weird or funny to us, we need to understand that these people made history - it's their hard work through successes and failures that lied the very foundation of modern aerospace technology.

[@AverageAlien]

Smarter than 99% of the people today thats for sure. Could you invent the aeroplane? Nope. You just happened to exist in a time where we've already figured them out

[@Censortubes]

Nah some of these dudes just rode the short wagon.

[@sandgrownun66]

The difference between these people and others is that those who actually pushed technology forward, were the ones who were actually successful in the end. Not these, who only succeeded in failure.

[@Lotsoflettersforaname]

@@AverageAlien yea the guy with the roller blades and wings on his arms was a genius. Oh and the guy with the helicopter with blades at neck level! Perfection.

[@AverageAlien]

@@Lotsoflettersforaname let's see your attempt at flying, without using google or any prior knowledge of planes

[@moritakaishida7963]

It's honestly a real shame that the biomimicry ones failed, they look beautiful

[@shanelankford8985]

The only one that worked crashed into a barn

[@markfrench8892]

Those were stunts performed for a camera crew from Hollywood no doubt. Even had an onboard camera on one plane.

[@PauloRoberto-lw3cs]

Eu quase morri de tanta risadas com esses loucos da aviação

[@PauloRoberto-lw3cs]

Eu sou louco por aviões

[@ryanstreuli8667]

It was for a flying circus act in the 20’s I believe. The guy would go around and buy a surplus biplane from the war for like $500 and crash it in front of a crowd every weekend. I think he made a pretty good living.

[@billyclark7079]

Lol shane

[@gilangnurjihadt.2210]

Me taking these guys to the airport: this is your doing boys

[@Rain_of_fire_ROF]

They did mistakes They smiled They had fun in failure They never stopped They never felt ashamed in trying again They never cared what will happen. They just enjoyed the journey of success rather than crying to reach success. *Yes, they really lived their lived.*

[@FBIagentObama]

ngl im really getting r/im14andthisisdeep vibes lmao

[@roboutot4839]

They didn't had fun in failures. Some died in failures.

[@jinxed4lyf763]

They lived their lived(it’s very deep)

[@FiveFourOne87l1]

Some lost everything they invested. Most were idiots to begin with... I wonder if they understood math at all. (90%Fucking morons)

[@MsIntheclouds]

fun in failure? Are you having some fun in your failures?

[@mylezzpurhourr]

It’s truly amazing to see the pure dedication and determination of achieving flight. These are REAL men here. Let it be known

[@octodigustian5474]

why so many people laughed on this people, im crying watching this, they had sacrifice their life to make our future better Salute and tribute for them Hats off, full respect!!!!! ☝

[@josephstalin5645]

LOL IM LAUGH XD XD XD LOLOL

[@piyakan23o16]

Same I'm also crying when I'm watching this because they try to make a plane to have a fastet way to trip the long way.

[@mr.mcbeavy1443]

I didn't see any fatal injuries is this video. When did you?

[@kxrma749]

@@mr.mcbeavy1443 9:21 this one is close on what u said but he survived

[@kofiagyeibaffour647]

When ever i get on a plane I'll remember this video

[@sauravchopra4639]

Meanwhile the birds looking at them like”dafuq are they doing”

[@Skarz]

Lol for real

[@yakuzoto1857]

🤣🤣🤣

[@generalviewer8347]

50 years later the birds get sucked into jet engines🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@repliedreplied5552]

Now they look at us fly planes like "shjt, that's a big burd".

[@jesuusmd6031]

@@generalviewer8347 yeah, we really surpased them

[@thooke222]

I'm imagining a 747 with wings that flap. Glad that idea didn't "take off".

[@peterzingler6221]

Of course people tried to recreate nature. The first flying Modells in 1840 were also based on pigeons and they worked

[@eduardoroxas8149]

@@peterzingler6221 you mean a flapping wings work or a copied pigeon wings when on glide ?

[@pexityy1350]

That was a good joke but many dont understand ☝🏻

[@eduardoroxas8149]

The 777-9 have that adjustable winglet but look they now haved a wing structural problem luckily still a prototype . What more a 747 with a flapping wings. OmG it will disintegrate before V1 lol Pls correct me if I'm wrong on the 777-9 tnx

[@erikcastle9157]

Hehe

[@SirDavidAsher]

They did not have computers, and radio communication was in its infancy. Without these folks’ failures we wouldn't have the victory of flight and space flight today. Hats off to ya mates! 🎩

[@peterelmer9114]

Whilst I laughed a lot at some of the ideas - the innovation and bravery of these pioneers is awe inspiring. I think the idea of “flapping” wings was soon realised to be a big NO in the pursuit of flight and is so ridiculously funny to watch now with hindsight. Obviously, technology can only progress through experimentation and failure leads to success. Tomorrow’s technology needs to be imagined and often our imaginings need bizarre prototypes to eventually succeed. Many of these designs have lead to the various forms of flight we see today; from aircraft, helicopters, rocket packs and winged jump suits. Fascinating to watch 👍

[@stuartbeard966]

At some point technology will allow for flapping wing's aircraft!

[@donnieallemanni8572]

@@stuartbeard966 human powered flight

[@jo9622]

@@donnieallemanni8572 hell yeah

[@DB-im2ko]

Amen

[@BeAManPodkast]

Well we know flapping wings do work because of birds. We just haven't figured out how to make them work for us.

[@richardkriz5776]

I mean, all those people was a heroes, and it´s doesn´t matter if their constructions could fly, or not. Both cases showed us how to fly. Thanks them we can cheaply traveling around the world in short time :-) Thanks them :-)

[@richardkriz5776]

​@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Yes, but it´s not fast technology. Planes is not too cheap, but if I must travel to somewhere 20, or 2 hours, I will take a faster way - by plane :-)

[@richardkriz5776]

@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Did you know, what is funny here? I´m train modeller and my whole life is connected with trains. So you don´t have to talk me this true. Yes, what you said it´s true, but I talked about longs flights betwene continents act.

[@TheMourningBlade]

@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan %100 mortality rate? Where are you getting your numbers man? Also yes, high speed rail for the win. For the densely populated areas like Europe and Asia

[@wruenvadam]

@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan yeah but building a bridge or tunnel all the way across an ocean would be horribly impractical in terms of maintenance. Airliners are incredibly reliable, and if something goes wrong, they generally stand a pretty good chance of landing safely. There have been situations where engines blow up or catch on fire and thanks to well trained air crews they get back safely. There is no amount of training that will save you if an underwater bridge has problems, plus you have to now design that massive structure to handle earthquakes, especially where the plates meet, like the Mid-Atlantic ridge for instance. Catastrophic failures that lead to the deaths of everyone onboard rarely happens anymore unless airline companies as are cutting serious corners with their maintenance, and even then the planes can fly for a long time before something major happens. When you consider how many planes fly across oceans every day, you'll realize how safe they actually are. Several levels of redundancy for major systems are what save lives, along with proper pilot training. Not to mention all the rules and regulations airlines have to follow if they want to continue flying in places like America, the EU, Canada. Planes are made safer year after year. Sure mistakes do happen, and it is unfortunate, but we learn a lot from them which improves safety even further. And I get where youre coming from when it comes to trains. For interstate or Intercity travel I can certainly agree. It is a lot safer than planes, but for traveling across oceans I would rather not be in a tube thousands of meters below the surface wondering how well maintained it is. Sure we have built underwater tunnels easily but nothing spanning the entire ocean to great depths that people have to travel through on a regular basis and handle the stresses of that. If something bad happens out there, you have a much lower chance of surviving. Than something bad happening on a plane. A plane can still be controlled if something goes wrong and can situations can be easily and immediately responded to, not so much for a train that only has two ways out of the entire situation.

[@jet-up2474]

Are you a rock person?!🕵️were you raised by rock people😈🤠grammar!!!! You little piece of shit.😈

[@OtenTheGamer]

Once my grandpa said to me before he passed away "Dont think that you're going to fail what you do, There's a hidden talent that god given us, All of us in this world."

[@Nytephyre]

How then do you explain the people without talent?

[@chillthanos5779]

Ty fly

[@khinfinite5802]

@@Nytephyre Without Or Just Not Discovered?

[@nagalakshmi8894]

I loved my grandfather 😭 he passed away

[@jigzmalakas6253]

Except God doesn't give a damn

[@blackbeardgamer5909]

I hate to be that guy but some of those bi planes crashing into the barns were on purpose. They called them BarnStormers and it was an act people did with old surplus ww1 planes. Interesting part of history if anyone is interested. As a pilot myself, I love seeing old footage of flight before it was perfected

[@PulseStarz]

"it flies! finally it flies!!!" "ok, but how do we land?" *surprised pikachu face*

[@thushansylva]

Gravity would do dat part free!(fall)

[@douglasdixon524]

2:10, I've seen that stunt a hundred times but I've never seen the onboard camera footage before.

[@Sujitonyoutube]

6:23 He was happy even after the crash that he flew for 2,3 seconds 😁

[@JohnRamirez007]

I counted 10 seconds for flight for that guy, but for 10 GLORIOUS SECONDS, he was in glory and cheered after his crash.

[@chewinggum5550]

Did wind help him glid in air ?

[@akhilnama1989]

I found this 6:12 part best in whole video. His joy touched ( ◜‿◝ )

[@makleampir8884]

That moment was meaningful for him to be able to fly.

[@josiahsaji]

the joy of him being alive even after reaching that height for the first time is what we saw...

[@jayw3989]

I had tears in my eyes when watching this. I had a profound and hard to tell feeling about mankind of ours deep down in my soul. At age of 64, I am still deaming about flying one day. Thank you for posting these clips.

[@kendamo7034]

This is incredible. The creativity, engineering, bravery, determination. What an amazing time in history.

[@sayanpaul8837]

The man with the wings brought tears in my eyes . They are all sucessful guys , these men's tried and failed and gave us the knowledge what was needed to achieve control flight ❤️

[@kararuhlunoker]

Planor gangs

[@astridvvv9662]

This is so profound. Seeing these guys roll these things out with such pride. All the thousands of hours spent.

[@williamcolon9280]

For it to get destroyed. Gotta admire the courage

[@tilerman]

Like @ 8:35. About 10mins to make it and i just cannot work out why his desgin didn't work!

[@williamcolon9280]

@@tilerman it seemed functional. Probably the wings wasn't fast enough. On that note one would probably have to start from a decent height the way birds do.

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar9296]

Some of the flapping designs were so complex it made me sad to see them break

[@BGTech1]

Me too it’s heartbreaking all the time it must have taken to build those

[@atlascoz1962]

Same, that's really hard and time consuming to build because of its moving parts and mechanism.

[@haroldowen6001]

The chronometer caption was nonsensical, and the barnstormer footage was no accident. Good music though!

[@mubzplay]

They spent there whole life for this and for future not for them

[@abhishekutham8784]

They didn't intentionally do it for the future, they did it for themselves which later inspired the future.

[@mubzplay]

@@abhishekutham8784 we couldnt say that bcz they didnt get anything from that what they done ,they spented there whole wealth and life time for this.Many scientist died bcz of there experiemenets especialy in chemichal catgory and they discovered what they want rather they lose there lives

[@abhishekutham8784]

@@mubzplay they didn't do it coz they hated it, they just did coz they really loved what they were doing and the consequences doesn't matter at that time!

[@Prabhjot-lv5gd]

@@abhishekutham8784 how much they get happy if they can see future

[@timinator20o0]

Whether they meant to or not.

[@paraglidingprospector]

The helicopter made out of 4 small airplanes… wow. As an aircraft enthusiast, I’m elated to see so many prototypes I’ve never seen before! Great work with compiling this footage!

[@dixievfd55]

Even though you know why most of those designs failed, you could understand the reasoning behind the design.

[@louisdanger914]

Yeah this has me weirdly impressed with it's originally.

[@jojomayard7233]

@@louisdanger914 What type of flying machine is that? 0:02

[@davidvolle7532]

Haha when i saw that my jaw dropped. I was seriously impressed. Goofy, also very advanced compared to these others.

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Kerbal Aeronautical Program?

[@touchme7018]

When planes weren’t made by machines but by dreamers with balls of steel

[@gierhedd75]

Because their original balls got caught in all those moving flapping parts. 🤕

[@DocSlayingyoudown]

Balls of Machine

[@PATISHAH]

they should be scientists, not dreaners...

[@MalcolmBrenner]

Aye, lad, dreamers with balls of steel, and brains of mush.

[@CrazyCoupleDIY]

agreed mate

[@cameddy4081]

Absolutely great compilation- ….amazing what a modern paraglider has become …..