Inventors demonstrate various flying contraptions with unsuccessful results. A man talks about his new invention, the ornithopter, jumps off a rock and crashes. A man test drives his rocket vehicle. Two inventors talk about their new machine propelled by human motion before testing and crashing the plane. An airplanes takes flight and then crashes into a wooden building. An invention explodes in flames. A plane with moving wings tries to take flight but collapses. A woman wearing wings discusses how she can teach people to fly like birds.
1930s
Video opens with clips of a gas filled balloon carrying a suspended,...
1930s, 1940s
Man gets in homemade glider airplane and attempts to fly. Plane is...
1930s, 1940s
Man attempts to fly using a bicycle with wings and rocket attached to it....
