Aviation History

[jayrc]

Thought this was pretty cool



http://youtu.be/GLAreFQ3G5k
How do I post video itself here?

[Jughead Jones]

Neat little watch! I like videos like that that put things into such a cool perspective.

[Meusli]

These tags either side of the link should work

[ url] Link Here! [/ url] But with no space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAre...ature=youtu.be

[jayrc]

thank you for putting the video up, I went to try and edit mine just to learn how to do it and those url's are already there just like you showed them?

[Figura]

Nice

[U505]

nice video but it is a pity it show almost only american or english invention.Where are frenchs pilots like blériot farmant or clément ader which have a great part in aéronautic dévelopment ?

[jayrc]

yes, wish they showed the whole history of aviation but somebody did do alot of work in making this short film

[nadasero]

The developement of aviation is a long list of steps leading to the flyable planes we know today. The video is showing a number of those steps.

My flight pioneer heros are Alberto Santos-Dumont and Louis Bleriot.

Alberto Santos-Dumont did his first flight in 1906 and developed several of the earliest planes. While the Wrights needed a catapult to start, his plane started on its own. The Wrights where in the lead from 1903-1908 in flying and controling a plane in the air but the contribution to the development was small. They kept everything in secret and they spend most of the time after 1905 with filing patents and suing the competition.

Alberto Santos-Dumont was completely different. He wanted to fly and he was proud to share his results with the other pioneers. When he build his first plane to be produced in small series (the Demoiselle), he gave away the construction plans for free. The more the better, no matter who is building them.

Bleriot needed a number of attemts until he finaly came up with the Bleriot XI. This plane made it over the channel in 1909, a 35km flight. After this flight he started to produce the plane in larger numbers. About 800 where build during the next years. This was probably the most important step from a few pioneers flying their own contruction to a plane everybody could buy to fly around just for fun. It took just three years from Santos Dumonts first hop to a plane with a price tag, produced in the hundreds. In 1911 air races went from Paris to Madrid and Rome.

I think this development is simply amazing and it was only possible because people like Santos Dumont and Bleriot where more interestet in leaning from each other than protecting interlectual property and patents.

When the USA entered WWI in 1917, the patent war between the Wrights and Glenn Curtis had stopped the developement so effective, that the US had to use french planes because no acceptable American-designed aircraft were available. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wri...ers_patent_war

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by U505

nice video but it is a pity it show almost only american or english invention.Where are frenchs pilots like blériot farmant or clément ader which have a great part in aéronautic dévelopment ?

Yeah, there have been some glaring omissions here and indeed a strange concentration on anglo-american developments, but what gives, it's a cool video which i enjoyed quite a bit.