The First Flying Machines - Failures and Mishaps
Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before...Above video is a series of vintage flying contraptions from the early 1900's. Many of these designs did not work out, but some of them went on to make aviation history.