[4k, 60 fps, colorized] (1910) London to Manchester air race. First night flight ever.
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- Try the ultimate tool to upscale the quality of vintage video to 4K: tinyurl.com/AIupscaler The 1910 London to Manchester air race took place between two aviators, each of whom attempted to win a heavier-than-air powered flight challenge between London and Manchester.
While Grahame-White's aeroplane was being repaired in London, Paulhan took off late on 27 April, heading for Lichfield. A few hours later Grahame-White was made aware of Paulhan's departure, and immediately set off in pursuit. The next morning, after an unprecedented night-time take-off, he almost caught up with Paulhan, but his aeroplane was overweight and he was forced to concede defeat. Paulhan reached Manchester early on 28 April, winning the challenge. Both aviators celebrated his victory at a special luncheon held at the Savoy Hotel in London.
The event marked the first long-distance aeroplane race in England, the first take-off of a heavier-than-air machine at night. Paulhan repeated the journey in April 1950, the fortieth anniversary of the original flight, this time as a passenger aboard a British jet fighter.
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Fascinating seeing this film. My grandfather was in the crowd watching the take off in London. Unfortunately I wasn't able to spot him. A year later he was to fly himself in similar machines, he went on to fly thought WWI and afterwards.
His girlfriend, later wife, saw him flying in 1913, and many years later I remember sitting with her watching the return of Apollo 13. She had seen, and in many cases experienced, all the changes in flight over the 20th century.
That's great. My grandfather was one of the few people there when he landed in a field in Burnage, Manchester!
@@PaulFrankAdams Did he ever fly?
@@gordonlepard4200 No, he didn't. I never got the chance to talk to him about it either. My father told me.
@@PaulFrankAdams Sadly I never met my grandfather either. He died when he was only 47, my mother considered that this was because he had broken so many bones in his body. Crashes were commonplace in early flight, and he also raced, and crashed, at Brooklands. He was something of a speed freak (and also got his first speeding ticket in 1913).
@@gordonlepard4200 My grandfather was a pioneer of colour photography, much safer! Although he was only a boy when Paulain landed, so unfortunately didn't photograph that event.
My late grandmother (died 1975) was in the centre of Stoke on Trent one day in about 1910 when a very early flying machine flew overhead. The entire town stopped dead and looked up, watching as it went past. One old gaffer, standing in the door of a pot-bank, caught Grannie's eye and said, "Look at 'em, lass, all them dom fools, gawpin' up at that thing as if it's the wonder of the world. Mark my words, time'll come when them'll be so common none on yer'll take the blindest bit of notice on 'em......."
Those are really wise words
@@kemurajohn1249 A pot-bank was a pub?
@@Channel-os4uk aye
Pot bank ?
@@andrewcarr3650 Nice, I didn't know that.
I’ve decided to start wearing a flat cap, so that I too can wave it in the air to signal my approval of splendid things.
Rather. Carry on, and all that sort of thing.
Do it Sir!
I’m doing so right now, just for the heck of it.
Here here chap
Top show old bean.
Some of these people later watched the moon landing on tv.
@Ronald Williamson.. I know Absolutely amazing film! On the Moon landings,my Grandad who was born in 1902 never ,ever believed it had actually happened and would argue with anybody otherwise! 🤗
People born in 1885 when the car wasn’t even invented yet, and some got to
watch the moon landing.
And what we have now or in nearest future? I see that progress just stopped, in last 40 years almost nothing special happened, only smartphones, laptops and nice looking UHD, HDR, 4K bullshіt only, oh yeah and cars on batteries.
Filmed by Kubrick for $1 million???
@@borisborman_6936
Keep in mind in the cold war there was a monstrous competition between two ideologies, Capitalism and Socialism.
Soviet Union had a space program in the 1930s, they did not really care for what the west did, but they were determined to reach the stars, America on the other hand did not want to loose out the prestige, of course both NASA and Soviet space program massively benefitted the nuclear arms race, but on the other hand we also had immense scientific progress, people walking on the Moon, robots on Venus and Mars with audio and pictures, the things both USSR and USA achieved, while NASA was mostly state funded, today there is nothing left, the world is getting more and more privatised, NASA is a shell of its former glory, USSR is no more, China and Russian space program are pathetic by comparison to the heyday and they are mostly profit driven too.
And that is the problem, everything is profit driven today, unless its profitable, going to space just does not make sense anymore in todays economy.
I've never seen an old film so well restored and colorized that it makes you feel as if you were there watching the event
Back when an aeroplane's top speed wasn't much more than its stall speed.
@H - M Less than that. Like the Bleriot and Antoinette race across the channel in 1912 (?) these only needed about 12mph to reach airspeed. I think these are Henri Farman airplanes but I won't swear to it. He had a pretty good business in both England and France.
@@mikehaas7 They are
@@mikehaas7 Think they are Farman, but also we can see one 1907 Farman-Voisin, the one which have the nose covered with withe canvas (see at 4.00') That plane haven't ailerons, Farman incorporated them in 1908.
@@rulfi1950 Ah! Thanks for the clarification. What did the 1907 Farman-Voisin have, wing-warping like the early Wright biplanes?
@@mikehaas7 Until I know Voisin did not have any type of lateral control, not even "gauchissement", he made the turns only with the tail rudder. It seems that the Voisin brothers did not give much importance to lateral control, what is more, the plane had to be balanced before flying by means of counterweights to obtain its static balance. To decrease the side slippage they added those vertical panels that you see between the upper and lower wing.
People cannot decide whether to look at the plane or video recorder. Two wonders of the era.
Video recorder? You mean cine camera! The video camera didn't really get going until the 1980s. That's why when we saw it in Back to the Future it was such a big deal!
@@funquay2219 Actually we don't have such word in Finnish language so I decided to use "video-camera" instead. Thanks for correcting!
Edit: Oh, we do have the word for it and it is "elokuvakamera" which means film camera, movie camera, or cine camera (which by to way, is listed as 'other/unknow')
@@funquay2219 If it records video it's a video recorder...
@@krashd Except that they called it a cine camera! The term "video recorder" refers to cameras that recorded onto magnetic tape, like an audio recorder. They were called video recorders to make it clear that they could record picture as well as sound. Cine cameras used film. No sound was recorded either. Hence the term "silent movie"
@@funquay2219 But that does not make anything clear, video means visuals, if you want to make it clear that something records both then you would say Audio/Video camera.
Let's not forget the brilliant engineers that built the engines that powered the early aircraft. Those magnificent Men and their flying machines.
I love these videos so much.. it's weird, because it's just colour and the right speed, but somehow that makes it feel much more real than the black and white versions.
Like, this actually happened, these were real people, not just some goofy looking characters on a screen.
That's a good way of putting it.
True. I was about to post the same exact thought.
they are us
Yes exactly .... the slowing down and colouring of the film makes these people somehow more real and gives us an idea of what they were trying to do. Real pioneers of cutting edge aviation when you consider that the first ever powered flight had only taken place 7 years earlier at Kitty Hawke.
Yeah but the audio is only a soundtrack, I need sound.
As?the kid of an amateur pilot born on the 1910's, I do not see any praise for the man starting the helix...
One small error and his head was off. Balls of steel man.
Makes you wonder how these people reacted seeing WW1 planes only 7 years after such baby steps.
Der Erster Weltkrieg wurde von 1914 bis 1918.
War is a great catalyst for technology.
And men were walking on the moon within just 60 years.
And another two years before the Atlantic Ocean was crossed by a Vickers Vimy bomber. Flying from west to east is with the prevailing winds.
Or the first man in Space only 50 years later
Only a decade or so years before, there were no cars in sight, but a decade or so later, both cars and planes existed.
Kinda like mobile phones and the Internet in the 80s
Well war pushed technology beyond what was the limit back then.
Hmmmm wat? Cars already existed pre 1900's what do you mean?
@@criticalhard they have this fantastic idea in there head that "only the rich" were riding automobiles in the 1890s, ignore them, they and I mean literally... know nothing. Better so, they came to this video by it showing up amongst their morgs subscription and among us fanfafe.
@@artdecotimes2942 the first car show was in 1898, so it's not far-fetched.
100 years later, we can see the first video with a rover landing on Mars.
110 years
another 100 Years and we will see the first Interstellar flight
@@Black-Re4per no we won't. We'll be lucky to see man on Mars safely return within 100 years
@@GuinessOriginal that will happen in 10 Yeras
40 years too late
Wow, The first couple of minutes after take off look quite hairy,it’s flying just above stall speed and wallowing .Brave man piloting that air craft.
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Very nice to see details of engine assembly. Thank you.
How lucky we are to have this. I've always wish we could have had film back in the Middle Ages just to see what people really dressed like
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we have very realistic paintings
I like these old videos a lot.
We've come so far, so fast. 😉
Look at that! It's flying! It propelled itself from the ground, and a man is piloting it!
My grandfather watched this at the time and told me about it before his passing. Wonderful film!
Really nice video, fantastic!
Imagine the brass balls it would take to pilot that contraption into the sky.
I was thinking the same. That thing looks so unsafe to fly. True pioneers, willing to take such risks.
conversely imagine those people disbelief at todays societies needing safety for every thing. seat belts , air bags , saftey rails, safety switches etcetera. no such thibg as survival of the smartest any more. every idiot survives to breed more idiots.
To be honest, a contraption like this seems more able to generate lift without high speeds. It's like a hang glider with an engine.
I'll take that over being strapped into a huge, complicated, 300 tonne tin can any day.
People just don't seem to be able to grasp the advantages of simplicity. That anyone would find this much more hazardous than a passenger aircraft seems a little backward to me.
Wilbur wright died young
@JZ's Best Friend well there was not much else so i dont think so..! .my grand pappy was born in late 19 century
Spectacular footage and restoration. Today, we have flown an aircraft on the surface of Mars.
Without the original footage one can hardly appreciate the amazing restoration work done here...it's unbelievable!
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. 1965 great movie. Give it a watch.
This is brilliant footage. It clearly shows that much learning has still to take place. These guys had viable machines yet flew them right on the limits, not knowing the correct way to fly them.
Спасибо что сохранили и возродили кадры истории авиации
Brings the event to life as if filmed yesterday, well done keep up the good work.
Wow. That was really special. thank you!
This is really fantastic!
Fantastic mustaches those men had. I am amazed the structure even flew, considering how large it was. Must of been awesome (not in the new sense of the word) and frightening to be the pilot, and what a sight for those people on the ground! Love how they wave caps and top hats.
Do you mean amazed at how the plane flew because of the men's large mustaches?
@@Simon-talks Yes I thought the same LOL!!
Of course it’s the moustaches.....how do you suppose that Santa gets around every year? Flying reindeer? Yeah, right. It’s the big beard!! Remember Samson? The strength is in the hair! All jokes aside Lauren....the pilot and all other pilots were certainly brave people. Not too many safety nets in use when you’re flying across the English countryside....or anywhere.
Back then facial hair structure generated lift.
@@FOX11GUY By golly, you might be right. When I studied “Theory of Flight” I believe that there was a postscript about “hair”foils. Thank you for the reminder...Mac
Incredible footage. Thanks for this!
what beautiful footage..thank you.just beautiful
Cool. Beautiful to watch, rendered this way it offers certain new mystery, as others remark, so you can gain a distinct sense of realisation of a real discovery underway. Thanks!
I was wondering where the engine was, then I realized it’s one of those rotary radial engines, where the crankshaft stands still and the entire rest of the engine spins. It appears that they first attach the propeller to the plane, then attach the engine to it. Amazing
Yes, and some were throttled by a rotary switch in the cockpit. The more you rotated the switch the more cylinders were shorted out, to slow it down. They used to cross the sky popping and banging. Pilots were impressive people in those days.
@@grandaddyc Who knows if it might have had manual spark advance, too. The original first Tom Swift book has an amazing description of riding a motorcycle with none of the components that we would ever think were ever missing from an engine.
Gnome engine probably 60hp
Everything about this video makes me delighted. Terrific film!
Wonderful piece of history, thanks for posting!
Mesmerizing! At the end I was lost in the quality of the video and said to myself, “There goes Peter Schipol in another homemade flyer.”
The orange hues flashing every now and then at the bottom of the screen made it look like there were explosions on the horizon.
Greetings from Italy
Fantastic! Thank You!
Amazing footage - thank you.
Cool footage
omg this is pure gold
Mind blowing thank you!!
Just amazing once again a fantastic film for all to see thanks for sharing
This one must have had a really low framerate before interpolation. Great work
This London to Manchester flight was for a 10,000 [pounds] prize put up by the Daily Mail newspaper. Louis Pulhan won it by flying through the night. He'd arranged to have a fast car doing the route during the night so he could follow its headlights but apparently soon overtook it. Must have been a pretty slow "fast" car judging by his flying speed in this video. Pulhan was also probably the first aviator to use precise aerial navigation with vectors to correct for wind speed and direction, as we still do today.
Since the film camera was cranked by hand the only way to set the playback speed is to guess by how fast people walk by. Given that, the airspeed of these early biplanes is incredibly slow. They are just trying to gain some altitude so the angle of attack is quite high, thus slowing the ground speed. Crashes were in slow motion too with lots of crumple zone, wires and sticks to cushion the impact. Thank you, this is certainly a rare opportunity to experience history in the making.
What wonderful early film footage just as interesting as the early aeroplanes shown within.
Thanks for posting such historically important material.
The airplane was invented and tested on the coast of my state (North Carolina). You can visit the spot (it's a National Monument park) and see the exact spots each test flight landed. Astounding.
Their is a road in Burnage a couple of hundred yards from where I lived up to adulthood named after Paulhan and there is a Blue Commemorative plaque on one of the houses commemorating his landing site. It was years before I understood the significance.
Many thanks for your expertise and hard work .Absolutely fascinating.
My father was born that year and incredibly witnessed the first flight of man to the moon and back in 1969 , all that progress in less than one mans lifetime..Incredible !!
My mothers father, born in 92, lived from the first powered flight to seeing 747s. Died in 1972. He went around the world as a sailor in Roosevelt's great white fleet.
Must have been amazing for these people to see these machines rise into the air! Their reactions to something so common today we ignore them must have been priceless.
That was evidently when night-time was much lighter than today.
In the beginning you could recognize Henri Farman & Claude Grahame-White amongst the people directing and assembling the aircraft. Plus Louis Paulhan (the pilot). So much history in one frame. Utterly astonishing to see it in living motion. Thank you so much!
Thank you!!!!👏👏👏👏👏
We've come such an impressive way with transport in such a small amount of time.
True, but the planets paying the price now.
@@stevehadfield5963 I wouldn't be too concerned about Earths longevity. More so ours and every other mammal and insect we drag down the shitter.
@@soulpaua2097 We're fucked.
Two World Wars really speeded up the evolution of aircraft.
Me to guy recording the video: "Think that's cool? What if I told you that a million people will be watching your video a hundred years from now on a piece of glass?"
On a piece of glass emitting light from tiny dots using this new-fangled "quantum physics".
In much higher detail and in color and no messing with film and a projector.
Great vid.
Thanks.
Wonderful colorization of this video. I always imagined I could time travel and be there watching in person
Ah the grandfather of aviation. Basically a kite big enough to ride
Most importantly you have forgotten the internal combustion engine.
3:56 Do you see the man to the right wearing what looks like a Tiger Fur Coat! 🤯😳
An oldschool pimp!
This is like time travel. Such a moving film. Thankyou.
Watching the engine assembly was marvellous!
Magnífico video, un homenaje a esos grandes pioneros, creadores, muchas veces fueron tildados de locos, como los hermanos montgolfier, o como los wright, que atrevieron a soñar, a crear, trabajaron, construyeron , y crearon desde la nada toda una nueva Era, y aunque ellos ya de hace mucho que desaparecieron su obra perdura, cambió el mundo... hicieron historia, aquellos intrépidos en sus máquinas voladoras y que muchos de ellos se mataron en sus intentos de lograr sus sueños de volar. Se atrevieron a lo que parecía imposible y triunfaron, todo el respeto y admiración para ellos.
Totalmente .. saludos desde colombia 🇨🇴
Coincido contigo. Impresionante video. y me dejó perplejo el tipo de motor estrella, no entiendo como trabaja rotando tambien...
Santo dummont 😪
1910 social media comments:
"Waste of time and money."
"I could walk to Manchester faster than that."
"Would never get me in one of those things."
"Yeah, no thanks."
In today's world, such "flying machine" things would be considered destructive of the environment, elitist toys, and perhaps racially motivated.
"I can't see a future in this clap trap"!
This is a fantastic video!
beautiful job with this video...wings look like paper....just amazing
I find it kind of funny that it seemed like they were almost able to keep up with it at walking speed. Crazy to think how fast aircraft technology advanced in those years - WW1 planes look like F-35s compared to these things.
What's crazy is the B52 has been flying longer than half the time man has been flying
Imagine being those people, a new frontier a new technology that has never been made. Just amazing
We are, with computers and all sorts of things, a pacemaker for instance.
@@hurri7720 yeah true i guess, for instance ray tracing was huge
I appreciate how this old footage has brought together all of the history buffs on youtube.
As I watch this, I think of my ancestor, Adam Etheridge, who was one of just five people to the witness the Wright brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903. Videos like this are probably as close as I’ll get to time travel. Pretty cool stuff.
Imagine witnessing man flying in a machine for the first time. Something that humans dreamed about doing for hundreds of years finally becomes possible.
and all due to the fossil fuels they just love to slag off now, without which they would be living back in the stone age without their I pads, phone laptops oversea holidays, plastics etc etc
@@pmrose18 Fossil fuels had their time and place, but now the world is moving on
Someone is going back in time and filming this ..
The cut to the fire got me scared for a moment. :D So cool, thanks for the video.
Poetic arrangement of footage and music.
Funny kids looks at the camera, prob thought, "man we are in the future" 😂
There's a good chance that poor lad ended up in the trenches a few years later.
The leopard skin coat is an odd thing to see.
Pimpin hard in 1910
Timestamp?
@@GuinessOriginal @3:55
@@MWDL2007 wow definitely a pimp
Fascinating video, and that early plane was a push prop.
Fantastic footage !
Подсел я на такие цветные реалистичные ролики. А то хронику черно-белую, да ещё ускоренную, всерьёз не воспринимаешь. А тут - как вчера!
I know. I drink two bottles of vodka a night too. The good stuff, only twice distilled.
Мне было страшно за пилота - такая неустойчивая в небе конструкция.
Yep, I've always fancied the pointless existence of a Gopnik. Oh, to be able to squat and drink and smoke all day.
Thank you for posting this. Claude Grahame White was an incredible character and pretty much forgotten. I am writing a new book about him - hopefully ready end 2023. He's also supposedly my great great uncle.
Amazing. Simply amazing to see this first ever night flight. Like being there.
The innovation and intelligence of Western culture is amazing.
Now....if there was only wisdom to go with it.
Just wow, a great reminder that everything we have is just some stuff people pulled out of the ground.
Respect. Thankyou. Always
If you can, watch this in VR. You'll get a real sense of the huge scale of the plane, and feel like you're in the crowd participating.
Back in the days when putting a fuel tank on an airplane was an EVENT!
Thooooooooooose magnificent men in thier flying machines they go upditty up up they do downdity down down!
AMAZINGLY crisp resolution for such an early set of films. It looked like it was shot in 4K! I didn't realize film in 1910 was capable of such clear images.
superb.......thank you
So, no one is addressing the man in Leopard at 03:57 LOL!
He must be rich. ^^
P.I.M.P.
3:55 alright who's the pimp?
I also thought "wow, look at this special person". ^^
conor mcgregor
Thank you for bringing this to us in the twenty first century. Well done indeed.
Its hard to underestimate the courage of early aviation poneers.. Thank you for your time and effort making this
It's easy to underestimate ... you mean overestimate ...
4:51 "what can go wrong?"
a few moments later : 4:58
Is it Sir Percy Ware Armitage
Great footage.
OMG, breathtaking, absolute hero's!