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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@thejoker-ie1mm]

Thank you for this documentary. Many were injured... few knew the basics of physics. Honor to the brave! 🤗

[@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]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@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

[@ianhowlett4682]

Their creativity and bravery was incredible. Although their contraptions were useless death traps, they weren’t failures because they showed the ways it couldn’t be done and paved the way for success.

[@crapisnice]

have good armchair success, there were more people designing open minded things than now. talk about "free market" peer pressure and universal education...

[@roostercogburn3771]

So, in other words, their deaths were not invane.

[@alvinhaglund5811]

some of these models were straight up retarded even back then. also benny hill music would be a better fit

[@davidohara7669]

Yeah.....made great examples of what not to do.

[@kendamo7034]

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

[@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 .

[@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

[@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.

[@jakejones8854]

You can see (with hindsight) which ones had the beginnings of what we currently know as flight. I think the haunting soundtrack really adds something to this. I guess this one's a bit older as a post but very glad it exists and I'm somehow recommended it. I doff my cap to the pioneers that came before and am in awe of those to come.

[@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.

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

[@minimanadam]

How interesting. I absolutely have fallen in live with these throwback videos..I even like watching just random street recordings and seeing people going about their business...what a great time that was...

[@Renard380]

We went from this to jumbo jets in less than a human lifetime, it's incredible.

[@bobsmoth-iv3sp]

from that to 1,000 plane bombing raids in 40 years

[@johnjephcote7636]

Only my father's lifetime d.o.b.1907

[@onyxobinna9400]

Went from that to Russians sending the first humans( both male and female) to the outer space, and bringing them back

[@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.

[@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

[@blancolirio]

Brilliant soundtrack!

[@guatagel2454]

These pioneers has a special place in our hearts, minds and history. They won't be forgotten.

[@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 😑😳😶

[@user-pb5of9qh8e]

Просто фантастика. Сколько смелости, изобретательности, упорства. Браво!

[@davemojarra2666]

Unbelievably fantastic video!

[@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

[@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?

[@cameddy4081]

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

[@DukeHard]

Can you imagine what our lives would be like if these mechanical birds had worked ?

[@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.

[@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

[@jeffstrom164]

I wish I could visit them and listen to thiwr thoughts on flight. These old bits of footage are priceless.

[@MysticdestructionAJ]

Honestly? Some of these were really close; super cool to see how the development of planes came to be from these early pioneers. Especially that first one.

[@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

[@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

[@mangoldm]

The value of computer simulation keeps coming to mind as I watch.

[@fishfuxors]

I really enjoyed the music as well as the footage.

[@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

[@DavidMajorz]

Some of these have turned into some pretty fun amusement park rides!

[@user-th4fy8ei5l]

Simply with enthusiasm and the pursuit of the joy of flying 👍👍❤

[@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

[@socramzetroc1535]

10:59 oh my goodness 11:03 nevermind

[@davecrupel2817]

XD

[@sanderanocic]

😂😂

[@happy-rj1kk]

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.

It was a prank guys..see there is a camera 😅😂😂

[@matikosciuszko6106]

Interesująca projekcja, szalenie mi miło, że mogłem rzucić okiem 💪

[@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

[@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.?

[@shaheermahar4799]

No one has been to moon

[@mylezzpurhourr]

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

[@waldomirogoncalves2861]

Esses maravilhosos homens e suas máquinas voadoras.❤

[@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.

[@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.

[@Mister_Holdsworth]

Wow, couldn't help but laugh at a few of them but some really great ideas and some very silly ones too. I wonder if it was only 1 who went over the cliff to test it or whether they couldn't be shown because they died in the experiment. Anyway this was a great watch. Thank you for the upload.

[@Coopdog0108]

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

[@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

[@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 😂

[@371stone]

Lots of ingenuity and bravery shown by these pioneers despite the lack of knowledge on actual principal of flight.

[@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.

[@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.

[@wendyyss2]

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

[@HBADGERBRAD]

I’ve seen clips but this is the first time I’ve seen this video. It’s fantastic! and hilarious 🤣 such brave souls.

[@rosewhite---]

Wow! I hadn't seen a quarter of these attempst!

[@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

[@MarlonGime]

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

[@charlesbrown-xp3vh]

Awesome history !!

[@bratpete71]

We owe it big time to these people. RESPECT!!

[@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

[@SandeepTandale]

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

[@tonyflatearther]

Great video 👍

[@RobertAWolf]

Some of these may seem laughable now, but props to all those thinkers and engineers trying different designs and risking their lives in the process. I personally liked the quad copter 3:57 that got off the ground pretty well. Reminds me of when I was a kid jumping off a 2 story house with a parachute made out of bed sheets, and yea it hurt!

[@kamdevil]

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

[@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 ❤️

[@mrhoffame]

This is small example of why you should NEVER watch a jet fly over and take it for granted. The courage, constant creativity, and thinking outside the box just SCREAMS throughout the history of flight.

[@seanmichael8202]

This is fascinating to watch

[@gilangnurjihadt.2210]

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

[@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.

[@blessyou285]

That was a great video! Some of them machines were just insane! I don't know how nobody got decapitated during some of them test!

[@Guslibre]

Thank you for your work, gentlemen, your experiments, your courage and perseverance... from 100 years in the future, thanks to you we have our flights, our reunions... we fly thanks to the fact that you died trying! The human being is awesome!

[@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!

[@loongyukhou6304]

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

[@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.

[@deejaaywalker2314]

Each example shown demonstrated designs that couldn't be used, but lot can be learned from "failure", whether it's reducing weight, improving design, trying new materials, listening to others or just going back to the drawing board.

[@Mothercoconut]

Because of their determination and hard work, they've made our lives easier. Huge respect🔥

[@artman40]

I heard that most of the footage here is post-1903.

[@TKDragon75]

@@artman40 Yeah to be fair, a lot of people tried to copy the Wright Brother's success but believed they could do it better.

[@artman40]

@@TKDragon75 I also assume that most of them didn't use the Wright Brother methods of testing each component separately.

[@MrPino-xn5sl]

👍

[@jamesbaty5499]

@@artman40 u

[@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 !

[@jimduffy1967]

These early aviators were so brave to even attempt any of this and surprisingly a lot of them survived horrendous crashes.some of it is quite funny though when their contraptions just fall apart.

[@lukewarmwater6412]

A large number of these early crashes happened not because of a bad design, but more because nobody had flown an airplane before.

[@claudelannois8821]

Surtout l'hélicoptère à partir de 4 minutes. 👍❤️👏👏👏👏

[@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

[@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

[@AXESMI]

My grandparents lived from Horese and Buggie to the Space Shuttle. What a historic time they lived in.

[@bobsmoth-iv3sp]

I can not explain it well in short But the rate of invention is parallel to the population

[@dungbeetle9789]

This is so cool!!

[@wagnermaiapets9654]

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

[@onionskin3254]

I can't even see their eyes

[@Tionic929]

@@onionskin3254 lmfao

[@FedJimSmith]

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

[@ptyo3892]

Nice quote bro...👍

[@mac3792]

Most had no concept of the actual dynamics of powered or lighter than air flight but bless their hearts for trying. I would like to know if any other technologies were developed with what they learned from their failed flying machines.

[@moneyandtimefreedom3352]

The beauty is not only did each of these pioneers want to fly but believed they could and this is what makes humans beautiful.

[@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>

[@HarryShagnasty-sc9zd]

Amazing compilation!

[@PulseStarz]

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

[@thushansylva]

Gravity would do dat part free!(fall)

[@Skatakephalos7434]

It's amazing how many walked away from those accidents.

[@moritakaishida7963]

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

[@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

[@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...

[@otterspocket2826]

What always strikes me about these clips is that few of them seem to have thought about how they'd control the aircraft or get back down safely, in the event they actually left the ground. @6:12 is a good example of what would've awaited most of them.

[@patrickgarrison7640]

To say that we've come a long way in flight is an understatement.