Race Takeoff - Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

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  • Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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    The aeroplanes in order of takeoff:
    1) Santos-Dumont Demoiselle 0:06
    2) Eardley Billing Tractor Biplane 0:15
    3) Vickers 22 Monoplane 0:39
    4) Antoinette IV Monoplane 0:57
    5) Bristol Boxkite 1:10
    6) Picat Dubreuil (could not fly) 1:35
    7) Roe IV Triplane 1:40

КОМЕНТАРІ • 77

  • @davidkermes376
    @davidkermes376 Рік тому +84

    when this movie first came out a little of folks called it a silly piece of tripe. just watching this scene reminds me how much better it was than 95% of the cinematic offal we have to put up with today.

    • @zainmudassir2964
      @zainmudassir2964 11 місяців тому +1

      Nice imo lot of fun imo

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 10 місяців тому +3

      No CGI. Even the models looked real.

    • @DanYHKim2
      @DanYHKim2 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@raypurchase801It is one of the amazing things about this movie that they actually did build all of these functioning replicas of historical aircraft.

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 8 місяців тому +3

      @@DanYHKim2 AGREED! And a splendid display of great acting talent.

    • @Darkhawk501
      @Darkhawk501 5 місяців тому +1

      Cause there's no green screen. It's all real

  • @TheSlugstoppa
    @TheSlugstoppa 11 місяців тому +17

    Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes. The real life Dastardly and Mutley - brilliant stuff.

  • @raypurchase801
    @raypurchase801 10 місяців тому +7

    A BEAUTIFUL movie, lovely photography, very funny, a vast number of talented actors in every role, music by Ron Goodwin. Completely unlike any other film, A phenomenal effort which will never age. It still excites and makes us giggle today.

  • @MichalKaczorowski
    @MichalKaczorowski Рік тому +42

    Amazing replicas. Today all would be done in terrible CGI ;)

  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus3008 11 місяців тому +14

    WOW it’s all real! No CGI!

  • @goldfing5898
    @goldfing5898 Рік тому +30

    0:16 The Prussian officer portrayed by Gert Frobe might not be the best pilot (he must unforeseenly replace their original trained pilot and use the instruction manual of the plane), but you have to admit that he is courageous. The scene over the English Channel where he must ditch due to a bird stealing his manual is priceless :-)

    • @DomWeasel
      @DomWeasel 8 місяців тому +3

      German audiences loved him. Because Gert Frobe was a Saxon and to their ears he was portraying a stick-up-the-arse Prussian with their equivalent of a farmer voice.

  • @charlieross-BRM
    @charlieross-BRM 11 місяців тому +5

    I remember seeing this at the theatre when it came out. I went with my parents and that was cool because we all had something good to share for days and days after that. That also happened with great films in no particular order, like Lawrence Of Arabia, Zulu, North To Alaska, all the way to The Sting.

  • @mrbiglarge8820
    @mrbiglarge8820 2 роки тому +16

    ok now I NEED to see this movie

    • @chtubbie
      @chtubbie 11 місяців тому +2

      You do

  • @ghislainegautreau1427
    @ghislainegautreau1427 11 місяців тому +4

    Antoinette ! What a beautiful french marvel. Should have crossed the english channel first but Latham water landed instead and smoked a cigarette while wainting for the rescue boat.
    The demoiselle was such a wonderful Santos Dumont plane. He gave the plans away so that whoever was interested could build its own.
    Santos Dumont killed himself as WW2 was glooming. He felt responsable, as a plane pioneer, of the new "killing " machines used in 1938 in his beloved skies.

  • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
    @JohnDavies-cn3ro Рік тому +13

    A brilliant film, one of the all time greats. They wouldn't make a film like this, with such a marvellous collection of real flying machines now. Just love it. (And the way they send up just about every possible racial stereotype save the Russians, gently and lovingly, is terrific.)

    • @alfnoakes392
      @alfnoakes392 Рік тому +4

      True, it would all be boring CGI now, whereas then they actually built copies (or 'lookalikes' that were a lot safer to fly than the originals).

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 4 місяці тому

      No one is spared from mockery. Hell, the Brits even took two shots at themselves for the price of one

  • @MCO18
    @MCO18 2 роки тому +29

    1:02 The Antoinette was one of the first planes powered by a V8 engine. It’s probably my favorite out of all the planes in the film.

    • @Marco-hd7kw
      @Marco-hd7kw 2 роки тому +3

      No the best is the Bleriot-Vickers at 0:45 .It is similar to the following Fokker EIII of first world war.

    • @steffenrosmus9177
      @steffenrosmus9177 Рік тому

      Sleek does not mean fast .

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint 10 місяців тому +2

      Probably the most fun to fly sitting basically on the top of it not inside.

  • @adammullarkey4996
    @adammullarkey4996 Рік тому +7

    Shoutout to the extra who's one job in the entire film was to throw the hat in the air at 1:51

  • @ClassicalMusicMan
    @ClassicalMusicMan 2 роки тому +6

    This is a Grand film It’s now in my top 5 as number 1 favorite.

  • @discoecultura76
    @discoecultura76 Рік тому +8

    In moment 0:07 , this is a faithful copy of Santos Dumont's airplane "La Demoiselle".

    • @williamkoppos7039
      @williamkoppos7039 Рік тому +1

      First hang glider. Santos Dumont made cool airships too.

    • @mekanikerpetersen4876
      @mekanikerpetersen4876 11 місяців тому +1

      More than that, it couldn't fly with a "full size" pilot - they had to get hold of one of little the "girls", who flew aircraft to the bases during WWII to fly it, cannot remember who, but I'm sure google know!

    • @discoecultura76
      @discoecultura76 11 місяців тому +3

      @@mekanikerpetersen4876 Santos Dumont was small in stature, thin, even his body type helped with his inventions.

  • @zoltangabordudas4393
    @zoltangabordudas4393 10 місяців тому +3

    No CGI! Priceless!

  • @ErstO1
    @ErstO1 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for posting this, it’s such a fun movie

  • @robertsweet5212
    @robertsweet5212 Рік тому +5

    The STOL characteristics of these planes are amazing.

    • @snowrocket
      @snowrocket 7 місяців тому

      They're very light and most have a lot of wing area.

    • @timweather3847
      @timweather3847 Місяць тому

      Their take-off speed was probably not much less than their maximum speed?

  • @jaytc3218
    @jaytc3218 10 місяців тому +2

    It's interesting to see Robert Morley in this considering he was a spokesperson in British Airways television commercials. There's one commercial of him standing in front of a picture of Concorde.

  • @buddyb4343
    @buddyb4343 11 місяців тому +1

    Released in 1965. One of the first movies I remember as being approachably "epic!" (It took me a while to appreciate other movies of the time such as "Dr. Zhivago.")

  • @TheGrenadier97
    @TheGrenadier97 11 місяців тому +1

    Good heavens, i wasn't aware how cool this movie is

  • @Defiant1940
    @Defiant1940 11 місяців тому +1

    I haven't watched this movie in decades! I have to go search it out now!

  • @connormclernon26
    @connormclernon26 2 роки тому +28

    All real aircraft of the period, even if some are replicas

    • @houstonhelicoptertours1006
      @houstonhelicoptertours1006 2 роки тому +7

      ...excellent ones, I might add

    • @frostyfrost4094
      @frostyfrost4094 2 роки тому +12

      And some of these aeroplanes are still flying some 50 years later "shuttleworth trust" collection Biggleswade

    • @steffenrosmus9177
      @steffenrosmus9177 Рік тому +2

      All were replicas!!!!!!

    • @markfox1545
      @markfox1545 Рік тому +1

      SOME are replicas?😅

    • @ГаврикКирпичников
      @ГаврикКирпичников 11 місяців тому

      Покорение воздуха... Сто лет до этого леталки того периода упали на землю и эскадрон гусар летучий пересел на коняшек...

  • @sleethmitchell
    @sleethmitchell Рік тому +1

    i loved this movie when it came out. i'll have to see it again!

  • @timcolledge6813
    @timcolledge6813 11 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant film !! 👏

  • @a.k.885
    @a.k.885 Місяць тому

    Another notable film role, was Derek Piggott's contribution to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in which he flew and advised on the construction of several of the early aircraft recreated for use in the film. Many of the planes employed wing warping for control in roll, which involved re-discovering how to fly them safely without the better roll control that comes from the use of ailerons. Several of the aircraft had dangerous features and he had a number of narrow escapes. -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Piggott (1922-2019)

  • @walterlapaglia5722
    @walterlapaglia5722 Рік тому +4

    Qu'est ce qu'on a trop rigolé 🤣😂

  • @snowrocket
    @snowrocket 7 місяців тому

    This clip shows the beauty and wonder of early flight, when it was a big deal to just get off the ground and get there! Also, these are real survivor and replicated airplanes that actually are being flown. Really cool but scary stuff! It's a good movie!

  • @budthebusker
    @budthebusker 11 місяців тому +2

    Loved the soundtrack...no wonder I became a pilot/muso....🚁🚁🚁👍🎶🎵🎸🚁👍😂

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 10 місяців тому

      Did Airfix encourage you as well?

  • @Moodymongul
    @Moodymongul 11 місяців тому +2

    "..RUMPELSTOSS!!!"

  • @alainarchambault2331
    @alainarchambault2331 11 місяців тому +3

    Well, there was the Wright Flyer that first flew in 1903, till the war started by 1914. So, I guess this race was to take place at least around 1910.

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 11 місяців тому +3

      It is 1910 as Bleriot's flight over English Channel is mentioned to have happened last year.

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 10 місяців тому

      I think it's set in 1912.

  • @ethanosaurusrex
    @ethanosaurusrex 5 місяців тому

    I’m an American and seeing the American plane landing gear fell during takeoff is shocking indeed

  • @shop970
    @shop970 Рік тому +4

    Incredible. Nothing else like it in today's world!

  • @johnfrank6112
    @johnfrank6112 11 місяців тому +1

    A classic.

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton73 11 місяців тому

    Very good.

  • @adityasingh1051
    @adityasingh1051 6 місяців тому

    Hello, can anyone remember the last scene. How much time does it take for EE Lightening to cover the same distance?

  • @Don_Camillo
    @Don_Camillo 11 місяців тому +1

    Ich weiß bis heute nicht, welchen Maschinentyp der deutsche Oberst geflogen haben soll. Eine Aviatik ?

    • @Dr.W.Krueger
      @Dr.W.Krueger 11 місяців тому +1

      1912 Eardley Billing Biplane

  • @yevgenitiger
    @yevgenitiger Місяць тому

    Stop that pigeon!

  • @choppergirlfpv
    @choppergirlfpv 5 місяців тому

    Flying was so fun back then.
    Now men just crash in airplanes.

  • @garystevens4303
    @garystevens4303 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent. Can't find the entire film anywhere online 😒.

    • @FordHoard
      @FordHoard 2 роки тому

      It's on youtube movies for free right now.

    • @garystevens4303
      @garystevens4303 2 роки тому

      @@FordHoard can you send a link?

    • @garystevens4303
      @garystevens4303 2 роки тому

      @@FordHoard is it a subscription thing? What's UA-cam movies?

    • @garystevens4303
      @garystevens4303 2 роки тому

      @@FordHoard can't see it.

  • @oldtimer4791
    @oldtimer4791 11 місяців тому

    I can imagine if one of the engines stalled as they flew towards the crowds... either that, or the lightweight construction was so flimsy that the pilot could break the plane in half just from their weight alone. It's lucky that the wheel from one of the planes didn't hit anyone.
    I can't judge the movie given that I've never watched it, but man... just looking at some of those planes is enough for me to refuse flying in them even if it was a life or death situation.😂

    • @AllanMogensen
      @AllanMogensen 11 місяців тому

      The falling wheel was a result of sabotage from the bad guy ( Terry Thomas ) and not the only act of that, if I remember right

    • @stvdagger8074
      @stvdagger8074 11 місяців тому +3

      A real life incident happened a year after the 1910 setting of this film. At the start of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, immediately after taking off, the plane piloted by Émile Train turned around due to engine troubles and tried to land on the field. However, a large part of the crowd had surged onto the field and a cavalry troop was galloping across the field to contain them. To avoid that mass of people and horses, the pilot landed on the other side but he couldn't avoid a smaller group of dignitaries who were also crossing the field.. The French Minister of War, Henri Berteaux, was killed. Several others were injured including the Prime Minister.

    • @raypurchase801
      @raypurchase801 10 місяців тому +1

      A saying from this era of aviation:
      "It's always a good landing if you can walk away from it".

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 25 днів тому

    To Dad