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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Glad they invented the camera first
@rightos sid They are perfect anytime
🤣🤣🤣Fact
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@rightos sid hahaha😂
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We should respect their hard work and pain while trying all these..
Its completely wrong brother, indiams made pushpaka before this.
And shivkar Bapuji talpade he was invented wey before it
@@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.
Modern bharatiyas should research about the vimanas mentioned in puranas too or u guys trust on whites only
proud to be a മലയാളി don’t spread your bjp sanki bullshit here .
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.
yeah but half of them were still morons
And within a mere 30-year time frame, somebody got it right and Lucky Lindy lands in Paris.
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.
Air Travel? This guy? 8:48
@@ZelenskyTheMadClown Well, not all of them of course, lol.... Some of them were just out of their minds, as was this guy.
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.
have good armchair success, there were more people designing open minded things than now. talk about "free market" peer pressure and universal education...
So, in other words, their deaths were not invane.
some of these models were straight up retarded even back then. also benny hill music would be a better fit
Yeah.....made great examples of what not to do.
They are those legends who never afraid of failures.
We need to be ashamed of ourselfs for letting us down by being afraid of failures
The fact that they build mashines makes them legends in my eyes
Look at Elon Musk, his rockets used to go nuclear 🥴🥴🥴
Salute sir...
And are racist
Even though a lot of their designs failed, you really have to admire and respect the creativity and bravery of these early aviation pioneers.
ahh yes pioneers in aviation 8:55
And their sheer stupidity for not doing the math and testing models. Now that's genius!
@@desertwolf8089 Geez, you are very mean.
@@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!
@@desertwolf8089 But still we should atleast respect them for trying atleast, You don’t have to act like a jackass.
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.
Thank you for this documentary. Many were injured... few knew the basics of physics.
Honor to the brave! 🤗
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.
That's exatly what I was thinking.
Become the flash
@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.
@@TurboIshak612 well the video was basically a 9/11 joke, if you think about it xD
@@jussieronen3707 yes, show em what they did xD
It's not a failure.. It is the part of success.
Its still a failure.
@@crad5476 without all of these experiments, nobody would have figuredt out flight or aerodynamics.
@@ATankEnjoyer You don't say...
Failure is part of success, so those are failures.
@@bewarebeware35 You mean establish advancements towards success.
We went from this to jumbo jets in less than a human lifetime, it's incredible.
from that to 1,000 plane bombing raids in 40 years
Only my father's lifetime d.o.b.1907
Went from that to Russians sending the first humans( both male and female) to the outer space, and bringing them back
Brilliant soundtrack!
*"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.
I owe you one 😉
People will call them crazy and wierd. Yes but we see genius
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 ?
Nice quote Man.
That 8:42 one though, they need to at least learn some physics bruh.
just imagine how many people have died trying to bring revolution..........and imagine those people saw the planes nowadays
coldfishman ME In fact many technologies we use today come from war
@@chopin1894 yhea like russia and USA strealling all the tecnhology of germany after the war.
@@chopin1894 Bcs of the german tecnhology
@@chopin1894 the B2 Spririt is inspired in the Holten Ho 229 a german prototype plane u should check it out.
@@chopin1894 In Ww2 Germans were fighting with German
Can you imagine what our lives would be like if these mechanical birds had worked ?
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.
and there was another rather longer flight made in 1969 made by three men named Neil, Buzz and Michael!
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.
These guys where the pioneers of the saying "hold my beer".
Were*
Hahahahahaha. Briliant
Potrzymajcie mi piwo, bo idę mu zajebać za kradnięcie Polskich tekstów
XD
Guy with rocket backpack: hi I'm Jonny Knoxville's grandpa and welcome to jackass
@@StalinJunior +1 byczq
If only you could bring these people to the future and take them to the airport. If only
Imagine...
They def got to see jets
This is the early 20th century
Maybe not modern but still
That would be a great Dr Who episode
I mean nowadays we got people flying in buildings too and I don't see them getting praised for it.
@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?
This is incredible. The creativity, engineering, bravery, determination. What an amazing time in history.
A large number of these early crashes happened not because of a bad design, but more because nobody had flown an airplane before.
Surtout l'hélicoptère à partir de 4 minutes. 👍❤️👏👏👏👏
Really grateful to those who have these bold ideas so that we can fly in the sky today
Almost none of what is shown here did contribute to modern aeronautics....
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D33_ DRN0 my apologies
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.
Bold.... it's down right nonsense at times
Respect to those legends who made our lifes easier.
Feels sorry for their failures.
Yes bro
Proud? Of their will to fly
feel proud not sorry
@@debrajkarmakar1783 I'm proud
@@osamabinladen824 ,,ho ho
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.
The value of computer simulation keeps coming to mind as I watch.
We shouldn't laugh at them. Because of them, we know the aircraft as it is.
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.
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.
You're right, thanks to them the wings of an airplane flop
chutiya who is laughing we all are seeing the past of how we learnt to fly
@@TwoLotus2 thanks to the stupid ideas we know what not to do. So even they are helpful
Imagine all these ppl see how planes are now and knowing that they did our future
To bad they’re all dead tho
Ramon Ramos , this is how they died ua-cam.com/video/T9F3k78zsFA/v-deo.html
Create machines that cause death. Imagine they see their inventions used to drop bombs and nukes
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.
And now humans ruining the future
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...
Some of these have turned into some pretty fun amusement park rides!
These are the real legends. Without them, we would never have dreamed of flying in the sky
Without this we wouldn't reach to the moon
@@zacxz147 You are killing UA-cam Comment section
@@zacxz147 the people Idiot
zacxz fuckyou
@@dannywicaksana no bad comment 😑😳😶
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.
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.
@@jeffwoods9816 and finally wright brothers stolen design from india who created unmanned aircraft
@@jeffwoods9816 eles não criarão o avião, ele criarão o plandor, quem e o pai do avião é Santos drumon
Santos Dumont
@R A that is the thing there was no common sense, only theories and dreams.
10:33, he needs to be credited for the first wing suit.
We owe it big time to these people. RESPECT!!
Respect for this lads sacrifice themselves in the name of science.
in the name of knowlegde and curiosity
also in the name of human's future
also science and technology is different
@@aryapanangsang2497 also just shut up if u dont know what u r saying
May they rest in respect without there sacrifice we wouldnt be flying
Most of the ideas were like,"Why can birds fly? Because they have wings."
May be they should have red bull . Because red bull gives you wings
Nowadays u will get publicly humiliated for doing something different n unusual thanks to social media
@@emerandu Real and True
@@IIFrozenFlame bv CV Jill uoo9úújkkj
Exactly
Просто фантастика. Сколько смелости, изобретательности, упорства. Браво!
It's honestly a real shame that the biomimicry ones failed, they look beautiful
The fact that some of the more spectacular crashes seem to have left the pilots to tell the tale is amazing in itself.
today they all would have died, this people were different.
IKR
@@lcfflc3887 main reason these contractions didn’t work, steel balls are to heavy. Respect to all.
Staged crashes. Flying into buildings at shows was a big attraction.
some of these inventions are pepega
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.
Massive respect to those that sacrificed their own lives for humanity. What absolute legends
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.
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.
Most of these planes are from the 20s and 30s, long after the Wright Brothers flight.
War would change by a long shot pearl harbor would be a hell lot different
The only reason planes are so advanced is because the military's of the world funded the research of them.
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.
Don’t forget helicopters
"So, did it ever work?"
"Not yet, no."
"Sounds good, just yeet me down the cliff!"
How that guy lived is nothing short of a miracle. Didn't even look like he got cut or broke anything.
abbas ibn firnas reacted haha
Junokaii
He probably thought in a few wars before hand
Yo I died when I read this lol I knew exactly what part you were referring to lmao
paparker lmao
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.
They really did not fail. All of these machines served as a successful example to the next inventors of what design not go follow.
Meanwhile the birds looking at them like”dafuq are they doing”
Lol for real
🤣🤣🤣
50 years later the birds get sucked into jet engines🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now they look at us fly planes like "shjt, that's a big burd".
@@generalviewer8347 yeah, we really surpased them
10:59 oh my goodness
11:03 nevermind
XD
😂😂
I was like how the fudge does that even work but then....oh nvm
Yeah they trolled us from 100 years ago. Well done lol.
It was a prank guys..see there is a camera 😅😂😂
These pioneers has a special place in our hearts, minds and history. They won't be forgotten.
Esses maravilhosos homens e suas máquinas voadoras.❤
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 🖖🏼
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Maybe this is the right video for you
@@sarathchandran3503 stop self advertising
@@pinekel8987
Take it easy bro...
@gurungsanjay do you know PRAVEEN MOHAN.?
No one has been to moon
Failure is the first step towards success. They are real heroes...
We went to the Moon less than 70 years from these chuckleheads.
Have to admire how daring they were, especially with those machines that looked like helicopters, that was so dangerous.
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!
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.
@@PanzerChicken69 that's true! They had no other designs to go off of, they have to come up with their own.
That one gyro thing actually got off the ground! Looked like it needed a bit more horsepower.
J
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 !!
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.
The thing I take away from this, is whilst these pioneers are amazing, most of these ideas wouldn’t have been built if they understood maths and physics.
The importance of science and engineering, is the true winner here IMHO
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.
These gentlemen lost lives and money and time just so we could be on air. Respect ...!
It's all started with a desire, Human mind is beautiful
The creator more beautiful 😍
We are made in the image of the living God the Creator of all things
If you listen carefully to the music, it's saying: You can do it You can do it and look where we are today
Best one is the dude standing up after his tethered plane crashes. He was so happy to be alive!
None of these are failures. They all succeeded in playing an important role in the development of aviation… one step at a time.
Yeah. Tell that to those killed while trying.
@@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.
@@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!
@@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.
@@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!
4:00 Dude nearly had a working helicopter decades before it was perfected! That's incredible.
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
My opinion is that it was a working helicopter!
@@bpd231martinko9 nope
Yes that was the best one on this video.
@@bpnk5237 it was. I saw it fly off the ground and move maybe 300 yards. That makes it a working helicopter.
That "rocket sled" at 0:44 was hilarious. Glad they tried that without a pilot.
100 years from now people will be looking at SpaceX and VirginGalactic in a similar way.
6:13 man flew just a couple seconds, but he knew, he had faith that it someday would be possible, true legends
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
The way he stood right up and thrust his hands up shows his excitement that he took flight
He looked so happy there
@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
The most impressive thing is that he survived the fall
Nothing beats the passion to invent of the people in history.
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.
I really enjoyed the music as well as the footage.
"Every attempt is not a waste effort, it's a stepping stone to improve your next" - I
Nice quote bro...👍
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.
Absolutely my bro ❤️
I wish I could visit them and listen to thiwr thoughts on flight. These old bits of footage are priceless.
Made me a bit sad. They would have been gutted to do a lot of work only to watch their creations destroyed in front of their eyes. Sometimes with loss of life.
Incredible footage.
*We also can take some time to appreciate that comments are not turned off like some others vid*
Half of these: Really creative and impressive designs
The other half: Welcome to 1892 this is jackass
@@TugIronChief 1:18 hahhahhahah umbrella saucer
@@Dooncat yes
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.
you just made me die of laughter
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No matter every failure, they kept trying and trying and trying and NEVER gave up! They never said it couldn't be done!!! They learned from their mistakes!!! I wish they could see what we have now and how we used their ideas to succeed!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have to say that hindsight is 20/20 meaning that we can laugh now about some attempts. Sometimes old-fashioned trial and error over and over and learning from the failures allows the exciting new innovations reached on the next dawn.
If you enjoy civilization and all our pleasantries, remember that we stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us and did a lot of heavy lifting.
And people wonder why NASA's words are so important for many of us.
“we have lift-off"
Exactly
Well these are planes, not rockets
@@pachinkomachine7347 Both within the science of flight... Ya dam Hill Billy!
Charlie Mutha Fucken Brown but let’s be honest, rocket science is a bit harder than creating planes
@Sheronn W. exacto-mundo
Me taking these guys to the airport: this is your doing boys
What's interesting is that a lot of these wacky designs were obviously made AFTER the Wright brothers made their flyer, as shown by the types of engines being used and by the cars which seem to be early 20's late 10's. I can see some of the designs making sense in that context, but it makes me wonder why some were still trying to fly using bizarre ideas like ornithopters when there when basic aerodynamic principals had already been established. Really cool to see the early helicopters though.
Eternal glory to the pioneers. Your first clumsy steps were heroic. Love and respect from Russia.
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.*
ngl im really getting r/im14andthisisdeep vibes lmao
They didn't had fun in failures. Some died in failures.
They lived their lived(it’s very deep)
Some lost everything they invested. Most were idiots to begin with... I wonder if they understood math at all. (90%Fucking morons)
fun in failure? Are you having some fun in your failures?
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.
So how greatful the future kids will be
Don't forget novocaine!
Do you fly all those cars?
Now is your turn to take all these stuff and make it better.
Love the guys just walking along and jumping a bit with flapping giant wings.
Absolutely great compilation- ….amazing what a modern paraglider has become …..
Some of the ideas were spot on, the problem was they didn’t have a proper engine to power the aircraft.
The first one to succeed with an actual engine was Santos Dumont
Is that like stone can fly if it have enough speed?
@@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.
They not build thrust .... Which is essential .. but efforts are precious.
Otto Lilienthal flew gliders around 1880. The problem with propulsion was to have an engine with the right horsepower to weight ratio.
This video is a valuable reference to engineering students
and medicine students
@@puertousbmonkey 😆
And crash dummies because safety wasn't so important then.
upstart culture from a hundred years ago! how times have not changed :-)
S brother
It’s truly amazing to see the pure dedication and determination of achieving flight. These are REAL men here. Let it be known
Makes me wonder if there was such a thing as testing their concepts with scale models before building it full size. Obviously, that was never done on some of these.
Next time I fly in the aeroplane, I would salute all these gentlemen who made my flight possible.
I agree 100%.... except the guy at 9:00 I cant fathom why hes doing a headstand down a rollercoaster 🤔
sANTOS dUMONT WAS THE GUY WHO INVENT THE AIRPLANE>
I can realize the hopeness in their eyes, even when they fail...
I can't even see their eyes
@@onionskin3254 lmfao
This video can make me cry 1000th time too.
Lots of ingenuity and bravery shown by these pioneers despite the lack of knowledge on actual principal of flight.
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
I would prefer showing them a helmet first.
@@savejeff15 lmao
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フライクライFlykryy 😱😱
@@0721at2am what the hell was that video? lol 😂
Because of their determination and hard work, they've made our lives easier. Huge respect🔥
I heard that most of the footage here is post-1903.
@@artman40 Yeah to be fair, a lot of people tried to copy the Wright Brother's success but believed they could do it better.
@@TKDragon75 I also assume that most of them didn't use the Wright Brother methods of testing each component separately.
👍
@@artman40 u
Every failure paved the way for the planes we fly today
Simply with enthusiasm and the pursuit of the joy of flying 👍👍❤
They spent there whole life for this and for future not for them
They didn't intentionally do it for the future, they did it for themselves which later inspired the future.
@@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
@@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!
@@abhishekutham8784 how much they get happy if they can see future
Whether they meant to or not.
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.
You forgot about "Extremely messed up wing shape that definitely won't work but we might as well try it"
@@justasentientboeing7378 you only know it won't work now because someone tried it.
Risky, but it shows here that it is in decent way.
@@bigsteve6729 True
You are talking as if they achieved world peace
9:30 pretty much sums up very early aviation. Everyone had flown a kite as a boy and understood lift. But nobody except the Wrights understood how to control the plane once it left the ground. This led to several designs which emphasized stability. Perfect if you want to fly in a straight line. The Wrights opened up the possibilities when they demonstrated their flyer in Europe in 1909. Six years after their first documented flight.
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.
They really did try everything back then.
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
Also imagine being alive when the first car the first plane had been invented. that must of been surreal
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.
@@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?
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