Early Flight

[sartorias]

If you've got ten minutes over your Saturday a.m. cuppa, and you like old films and the history of flight as much as I do, check out this site.

The amazing thing is, they say all their photos and film clips are public domain.

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[sartorias]

:-)

[coneycat]

OOOOOOoooooOOOOOOHHHHH!

Thank you! I will bookmark this and have a LOT of fun!

[asakiyume]

Lovely photos, especially the home page photo!

I haven't watched the videos yet, but thinking of the videos reminded me of that British Film Institute YouTube channel. The other day they had a film from 1910 that showed women in a factory manufacturing Christmas crackers (by which I mean the things you pull and they explode and release little trinkets, not the snack food).

Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2nqHU6f7I

[sartorias]

Oh wow! Thanks!

[jade_sabre_301]

GO DAWGS GO TO HELL OLE MISS.

this makes me so very happy.

there's a plane from MS in the Smithsonian--I forget the name, which is awful of me--but it had the longest recorded "time in the air" thing, made possible by people flying other airplanes full of fuel up to it and then them hand-pouring the fuel into the airplane. and my grandmother rode it when she was five years old. the story goes that her father decided he was going to take her, and so he asked her if she wanted to go for a plane ride, and she agreed, and then they got home and her mother had a fit when she discovered what her baby girl had been up to. I saw the plane, and I have to agree--I couldn't see how they got ONE person in there, let alone two grown men and a five-year-old girl. Oh, the crazy thirties... :-D

[sartorias]

Those planes hanging overhead are awesome, aren't they? Oh how I love the Smithsonian!