Fifty Years Of Powered Flight
B&W, with commentary, chronicles history of powered flight in the first half of the 1900s. Emphasis on British aviation.
10:00:19 10:00:26 Santos Dumont in his 14-bis early bi-plane
10:00:27 10:00:46 Early seaplane glider on the Sienne, crash
10:00:47 10:00:57 Successful powered bi-plane (possibly Samuel Cody`s Army Airplane #1 first powered flight in Britain 1908)
10:00:57 10:01:06 Santos Dumont monoplane 1908 Demoiselle
10:01:06 10:01:49 Wilbur Wright demonstrates his plane in France in 1908
10:01:50 10:01:56 Newspaper clipping, Wright flies across the English Channel
10:01:56 10:02:20 Latham in the Antoinette, failed attempt to fly across the Channel
10:02:20 10:03:03 Louis Bleriot monoplane 11-bis successful crossing of the Channel 25th July 1909
10:03:05 10:04:15 Various bi-planes, Reims meeting 1909, Champagne Contest for distance
10:04:16 10:05:04 Graham White, London to Manchester race 1910 bi-plane
10:05:04 10:05:12 Daily Mail prize London to Paris air race
10:05:13 10:05:27 1911 Coronation Aerial Post, first flight, Hendon to Windsor
10:05:28 10:05:59 Circuit of Europe contest, Hux monoplanes
10:05:59 10:06:16 Monoplane crashed into roof of house, led to ban of monoplanes
10:06:16 10:06:38 bi-planes, 1912 Cody wins military trials flying at Larkhill
10:06:38 10:07:00 BE2 deHavilland bi-plane
10:07:01 10:07:34 Sopwith Tabloiid bi-plane, seaplane, Schneider Trophy, pilot Howard Pixton 1914
10:07:35 10:07:54 WWI recruitment poster, crowds in London, troops marching off to war
10:07:55 10:08:03 WWI soldiers on battlefield
10:08:04 10:08:33 BE2 & early Farman warplane, single seater bi-planes, Sopwith Pup
10:08:33 10:08:53 Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, 1st 2-seater fighter
10:08:54 10:09:07 Sopwith Camel
10:09:08 10:09:29 WWI, SE5, ground troops with planes flying overhead
10:09:30 10:10:03 D7 German Fokkers, dogfight, plane shot down, crashed wreckage
10:10:03 10:10:55 launching Shortts & Sopwiths off gun turrets of warships, planes ditching into sea, planes landing on deck
10:10:55 10:11:32 Shortt seaplanes on patrol, forerunner to future carrier-borne aircraft
10:11:32 10:11:55 John Port`s flying boats @ Felixstowe
10:11:56 10:12:18 Airships (possibly the Nulli Secundus), Zepplin
10:12:18 10:12:46 FE2b bomber
10:12:46 10:12:58 Sopwith Snipe, Handley Page 0400
10:12:59 10:13:15 Barnwell`s Bristol Fighter, Farman, Bristol
10:13:15 10:13:28 Cheering crowds outside Buckingham Palace
10:13:28 10:13:32 Battleships at Scapa Flow
10:13:32 10:13:39 Assembled world leaders
10:13:39 10:13:53 High seas
10:13:53 10:14:28 Hawker & Mackenzie Grieve planning trans-Atlantic flight, boarding Sopwith Atlantic, take-off, failed attempt
10:14:28 10:15:08 Allcock & Brown attempt transatlantic flight in Vickers Vimy, land successfully in Ireland, newsclipping, cheering crowds
10:15:08 10:16:00 1st scheduled aerial post, UK to Cologne
10:16:00 10:16:22 1919 1st scheduled passenger air service, Hownslow to Paris
10:16:25 10:16:56 Roaring 20s, party boats on canal, cricket players, Wimbledon, Wembley, dancing the Charleston, parties
10:16:57 10:17:21 Rainy London, crowds in streets, politicians Baldwin, MacDonald, Ernest Bevin, wheels of industry
10:17:21 10:17:28 Stuntmen on wings of airplane in flight (also referred to as wing-walkers)
10:17:28 10:17:46 Horse-racing carts, motorbike stunt, car, plane & train stunt crashes
10:17:46 10:18:17 1920s Avro 504, flying display
10:18:18 10:18:56 1925 de Havilland Moth, flying club, people learning to fly
10:18:56 10:19:25 Formation of Imperial Airways, Croydon (forerunner to Gatwick Airport), Argosy passenger plane late 1920s
10:19:25 10:20:54 1930s HP42, Imperial Airways
10:20:54 10:21:16 Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower, radio navigation
10:21:16 10:22:09 passenger plane in flight, interior view of cabin, India, plane taking off
10:22:16 10:23:38 Schneider Trophy 1925 Supermarine S4 Mitchell & Webster, S5, 1929 S6, 1931 S6b
10:23:54 10:24:02 Long-haul flight pioneers Ross & Keith Smith to Australia in a Vimy 1919
10:24:02 10:24:27 Bert Hinkler Croydon to Darwin, Cobham to Capetown & India, Sir Sefton Brank, Kingsford Smith, Mollison, Gino Watkins - Arctic
10:24:27 10:25:09 1927 monoplane, Lindbergh New York to Paris, cheering crowds
10:25:09 10:25:34 Amy Johnson returns from England - Australia flight in Argosy escorted by DH Moths
10:25:34 10:25:49 Flying boats, German DO X passenger plane
10:25:49 10:26:38 Graf Zepplin, Hindenberg disaster
10:26:40 10:27:03 Flying boats, Supermarine Southampton, Shortt Singapore, Calcutta
10:27:03 10:27:17 Men at drawing boards in aircraft design office, aircraft model
10:27:17 10:28:35 Canopus, Shortt sea class Empire Flying Boat, passengers boarding, plane taking off
10:28:35 10:28:54 North Atlantic route, Caledonia flying over New York 1938
10:28:54 10:29:04 Douglas DC2 (TWA), DC3
10:29:04 10:29:55 1934 Mildenhall to Melbourne race for the McRobertson prize, Comet flown by Scott & Campbell Black, DC2
10:29:55 10:30:22 C30 Autogyro early helocopter
10:30:25 10:31:35 British military aircraft, Fleet Air Arm, Hendon RAF display
10:31:36 10:32:25 1935 RAF review, formation display of Gloster Gladiators
10:32:25 10:32:54 Junkers 52 flying over Europe, German Air Force
10:32:54 10:33:01 Britain preparing for WW1
10:33:01 10:34:02 S6b becomes the Spitfire
10:34:02 10:36:58 WWII air battles, bombing raids, wreckage, Battle of Britain, German warplanes
10:36:58 10:37:14 warplane wreckage
10:37:15 10:37:25 fires in London after bombing raids
10:37:25 10:37:49 Wellington bomber
10:37:49 10:38:11 Sunderlands, Coastal Command
10:38:11 10:38:59 Frank Whittle, development of jet engine, experimental aircraft E28/39, 1941
10:38:59 10:39:46 German V1 flying bomb
10:39:46 10:42:12 WWII fighter planes & bombers, Meteor, air battles, bomb dropping, Lancasters, Typhoons, Mosquitos, Horsa gliders, Dakotas
10:42:13 10:42:46 WWII aircraft carriers in the Pacific, air-sea battles
10:42:46 10:42:57 Hiroshima
10:43:00 10:43:12 United Nations building
10:43:12 10:44:00 London airport, Heathrow post WWII, Dakotas, DC4, Constellation, York, Lancastrian
10:44:01 10:45:43 1950 air display various jet aircraft Vulcan, etc. Flying boat, Comet, Viscount, Britannia, Bristol 173
10:45:43 10:46:45 Heathrow circa 1950s, passenger activity, shuttle buses, boarding planes, plane in hangar, terminal building
10:46:46 10:47:43 Rocket firing, view of earth from space
FULL SYNOPSIS
10:00:27 10:00:46 Early seaplane glider on the Sienne, crash
10:00:47 10:00:57 Successful powered bi-plane (possibly Samuel Cody`s Army Airplane #1 first powered flight in Britain 1908)
10:00:57 10:01:06 Santos Dumont monoplane 1908 Demoiselle
10:01:06 10:01:49 Wilbur Wright demonstrates his plane in France in 1908
10:01:50 10:01:56 Newspaper clipping, Wright flies across the English Channel
10:01:56 10:02:20 Latham in the Antoinette, failed attempt to fly across the Channel
10:02:20 10:03:03 Louis Bleriot monoplane 11-bis successful crossing of the Channel 25th July 1909
10:03:05 10:04:15 Various bi-planes, Reims meeting 1909, Champagne Contest for distance
10:04:16 10:05:04 Graham White, London to Manchester race 1910 bi-plane
10:05:04 10:05:12 Daily Mail prize London to Paris air race
10:05:13 10:05:27 1911 Coronation Aerial Post, first flight, Hendon to Windsor
10:05:28 10:05:59 Circuit of Europe contest, Hux monoplanes
10:05:59 10:06:16 Monoplane crashed into roof of house, led to ban of monoplanes
10:06:16 10:06:38 bi-planes, 1912 Cody wins military trials flying at Larkhill
10:06:38 10:07:00 BE2 deHavilland bi-plane
10:07:01 10:07:34 Sopwith Tabloiid bi-plane, seaplane, Schneider Trophy, pilot Howard Pixton 1914
10:07:35 10:07:54 WWI recruitment poster, crowds in London, troops marching off to war
10:07:55 10:08:03 WWI soldiers on battlefield
10:08:04 10:08:33 BE2 & early Farman warplane, single seater bi-planes, Sopwith Pup
10:08:33 10:08:53 Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, 1st 2-seater fighter
10:08:54 10:09:07 Sopwith Camel
10:09:08 10:09:29 WWI, SE5, ground troops with planes flying overhead
10:09:30 10:10:03 D7 German Fokkers, dogfight, plane shot down, crashed wreckage
10:10:03 10:10:55 launching Shortts & Sopwiths off gun turrets of warships, planes ditching into sea, planes landing on deck
10:10:55 10:11:32 Shortt seaplanes on patrol, forerunner to future carrier-borne aircraft
10:11:32 10:11:55 John Port`s flying boats @ Felixstowe
10:11:56 10:12:18 Airships (possibly the Nulli Secundus), Zepplin
10:12:18 10:12:46 FE2b bomber
10:12:46 10:12:58 Sopwith Snipe, Handley Page 0400
10:12:59 10:13:15 Barnwell`s Bristol Fighter, Farman, Bristol
10:13:15 10:13:28 Cheering crowds outside Buckingham Palace
10:13:28 10:13:32 Battleships at Scapa Flow
10:13:32 10:13:39 Assembled world leaders
10:13:39 10:13:53 High seas
10:13:53 10:14:28 Hawker & Mackenzie Grieve planning trans-Atlantic flight, boarding Sopwith Atlantic, take-off, failed attempt
10:14:28 10:15:08 Allcock & Brown attempt transatlantic flight in Vickers Vimy, land successfully in Ireland, newsclipping, cheering crowds
10:15:08 10:16:00 1st scheduled aerial post, UK to Cologne
10:16:00 10:16:22 1919 1st scheduled passenger air service, Hownslow to Paris
10:16:25 10:16:56 Roaring 20s, party boats on canal, cricket players, Wimbledon, Wembley, dancing the Charleston, parties
10:16:57 10:17:21 Rainy London, crowds in streets, politicians Baldwin, MacDonald, Ernest Bevin, wheels of industry
10:17:21 10:17:28 Stuntmen on wings of airplane in flight (also referred to as wing-walkers)
10:17:28 10:17:46 Horse-racing carts, motorbike stunt, car, plane & train stunt crashes
10:17:46 10:18:17 1920s Avro 504, flying display
10:18:18 10:18:56 1925 de Havilland Moth, flying club, people learning to fly
10:18:56 10:19:25 Formation of Imperial Airways, Croydon (forerunner to Gatwick Airport), Argosy passenger plane late 1920s
10:19:25 10:20:54 1930s HP42, Imperial Airways
10:20:54 10:21:16 Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower, radio navigation
10:21:16 10:22:09 passenger plane in flight, interior view of cabin, India, plane taking off
10:22:16 10:23:38 Schneider Trophy 1925 Supermarine S4 Mitchell & Webster, S5, 1929 S6, 1931 S6b
10:23:54 10:24:02 Long-haul flight pioneers Ross & Keith Smith to Australia in a Vimy 1919
10:24:02 10:24:27 Bert Hinkler Croydon to Darwin, Cobham to Capetown & India, Sir Sefton Brank, Kingsford Smith, Mollison, Gino Watkins - Arctic
10:24:27 10:25:09 1927 monoplane, Lindbergh New York to Paris, cheering crowds
10:25:09 10:25:34 Amy Johnson returns from England - Australia flight in Argosy escorted by DH Moths
10:25:34 10:25:49 Flying boats, German DO X passenger plane
10:25:49 10:26:38 Graf Zepplin, Hindenberg disaster
10:26:40 10:27:03 Flying boats, Supermarine Southampton, Shortt Singapore, Calcutta
10:27:03 10:27:17 Men at drawing boards in aircraft design office, aircraft model
10:27:17 10:28:35 Canopus, Shortt sea class Empire Flying Boat, passengers boarding, plane taking off
10:28:35 10:28:54 North Atlantic route, Caledonia flying over New York 1938
10:28:54 10:29:04 Douglas DC2 (TWA), DC3
10:29:04 10:29:55 1934 Mildenhall to Melbourne race for the McRobertson prize, Comet flown by Scott & Campbell Black, DC2
10:29:55 10:30:22 C30 Autogyro early helocopter
10:30:25 10:31:35 British military aircraft, Fleet Air Arm, Hendon RAF display
10:31:36 10:32:25 1935 RAF review, formation display of Gloster Gladiators
10:32:25 10:32:54 Junkers 52 flying over Europe, German Air Force
10:32:54 10:33:01 Britain preparing for WW1
10:33:01 10:34:02 S6b becomes the Spitfire
10:34:02 10:36:58 WWII air battles, bombing raids, wreckage, Battle of Britain, German warplanes
10:36:58 10:37:14 warplane wreckage
10:37:15 10:37:25 fires in London after bombing raids
10:37:25 10:37:49 Wellington bomber
10:37:49 10:38:11 Sunderlands, Coastal Command
10:38:11 10:38:59 Frank Whittle, development of jet engine, experimental aircraft E28/39, 1941
10:38:59 10:39:46 German V1 flying bomb
10:39:46 10:42:12 WWII fighter planes & bombers, Meteor, air battles, bomb dropping, Lancasters, Typhoons, Mosquitos, Horsa gliders, Dakotas
10:42:13 10:42:46 WWII aircraft carriers in the Pacific, air-sea battles
10:42:46 10:42:57 Hiroshima
10:43:00 10:43:12 United Nations building
10:43:12 10:44:00 London airport, Heathrow post WWII, Dakotas, DC4, Constellation, York, Lancastrian
10:44:01 10:45:43 1950 air display various jet aircraft Vulcan, etc. Flying boat, Comet, Viscount, Britannia, Bristol 173
10:45:43 10:46:45 Heathrow circa 1950s, passenger activity, shuttle buses, boarding planes, plane in hangar, terminal building
10:46:46 10:47:43 Rocket firing, view of earth from space