GREAT video considering it's 100 years old and the quality/weight of the equipment of that day. Note pitch stability and the yaw string on the canard.

Here is a film clip from the Austrian archives about the Wright Brothers
demonstrating their plane in Italy in 1909. What is even more fantastic
is there was an on-board camera on the Wright plane and the last part of
this film shows it. Wilbur Wright is at the controls on both of the
flights


www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/fiche_technique.htm?ID=322 (http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/fiche_technique.htm?ID=322)

BillL

very cool :thumbsup:

Intresting!

great post ark68ss!
growing up in dayton and being stationed in va beach let me go to kitty hawk every weekend.
i really appreciate what the brothers did.
wow from bicycle mechanic to controlled flight and then to the moon in less than 66 years wow! is this a great country or what!
now thats what we need more of to get this great country going again! we need more orville and wilburs today!
i have a picture of the first flight in my work shop PRICELESS!

Very cool to watch that video, so I would guess that would be the first video ever shot on board a the first airplane.

I didn't think they had video in 1909.....