The Conquest of the Air

The Conquest of the Air DVD cover.

Movie (1936)

Starring:
Henry Victor (Otto Lilienthal)
Laurence Olivier (Vincent Lunardi)
Charles Lefaux (Louis Blériot)
John Turbull (Von Zeppelin)

This documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

Leonardo da Vinci Ornitottero

Francesco Lana de Terzi's Flying Boat Concept

A boat suspended to four sphere filled with dew.

Ballon Etienne et Joseph Montgolfier

First try at Annonay.

Montgolfière Le Réveillon

Experience at Versailles on 19th Septembr 1783, carrying a lamb, a duck and a cock in a basket.

Montgolfière Le Réveillon

21 november 1783 : first human take off with Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes.

Robert Frères-Jacques Charles Charlière Ballon Dihydrogène

First attempt with no charge on August 27, 1783.

Robert Frères-Jacques Charles Charlière Ballon Dihydrogène

First manned hydrogen balloon flight on December 1, 1783 by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert.

Vincent Lunardi

First manned flight in London.

Jean-Pierre Blanchard Ballon Dihydrogène

First flight over the sea made by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries on 7th January 1785.

Bredin Aerostat

Char, Moyen de Direction et Machine Aérostatique (1784).

Various (unidentified) projects

George Cayley Helicopter Concept

George Cayley Glider

William Henson Steam Flying Machine Project

Jean-Marie Le Bris Albatros

French sailor and captain who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Flying Machine

The inventor of the machine gun has think between 1889 and 1894 to a flyable machine which led to unseccessfull trials in Bexley.

Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°11

Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°13

Henri Giffard No 1 Ballon Dirigeable

Renard et Krebs Dirigeable La France

Airship launched by Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs in 1884. The narrator speaks of 1872 : first dirigible powered by an electric engine able to fly on a closed circuit.

Santos Dumont No 6

Wright Glider 1901

Wright Flyer I

Vuia I

Fully self-propelled, fixed-wing monoplane aircraft using a carbonic acid gas engine and a single tractor propeller.

Voisin Farman I

Farman HF.3

Voisin Archdeacon Hydroplane

Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Henri Fabre Hydroplane

First Hydroplane flying on 28 March 1910.

Unidentified Aircraft

To explain how a plane can lift up, a profile similar to the Stinson Reliant is drawn on the wall.

Grade II „Libelle“ alias Eindecker

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Antoinette IV

Blériot XI

Sopwith F.1 Camel

Curtiss B-2 Condor

Shown to illustrate the WW1 despite the type entered service in 1929.

Unidentified Aircraft

Unidentified Aircraft

Lots of very short sequences (most with pinpoint over the horizon) to illustrate the growth of air forces. Here is one of the very few identifiable.

Beardmore R34 Airship

Royal Airship Works Rigid Airship R101

The same rigid near a Zeppelin.

Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

Registration D-LZ127.
Look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Zeppelin LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin of DZR-Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei.

Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg

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Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg of DZR-Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei.

Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg of DZR-Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei.

Auguste Piccard Stratospheric Balloon

One of the 27 balloons flights made by Auguste Piccard in the beginning of the thirties to study the stratosphere.

Unidentified Aircraft

Biplane used in the USA to fight forest fire by preventing bombing.

De Havilland DH86A Express

Airco DH.16

Reg.G-EACT but wearing K-130, Airco DH.16 of AT&T-Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd for the first daily international service departing from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome (London) to Le Bourget (Paris).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Coded K-130 Airco DH.16 of AT&T-Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd.

Klemm VL. 26b

From the german movie "SOS Eisberg" (1933). Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis

Registration NX211.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Vickers F.B.27A Vimy Transatlantic

Vimy model

Fokker C-2

Speaking of North Pole overflight by Richard E. Byrd but displaying the Fokker VII used for the first official transatlantic airmail flight he made on 29 June 1927.

Fokker C-2 America (NX206)

Fokker F.VIIb/3m

"Southern Cross" Fokker F.VII/3m of Charles Kingsford Smith, first flight from California to Australia (1928); registration VH-USU was worn after april 1931.
Registration 1985, G-AUSU, VH-USU, c/n 4954.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

De Havilland DH60G Gipsy Moth

In July 1932, Johnson sets a solo record for the flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa in a Gipsy Moth.

G-AAAH, De Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth c/n 804.

Unidentified Aircraft

Jim Mollison, who made the first solo flight over the South Atlantic in 1931. Here, perhaps in front of a gipsy moth ?

Blériot 110 Joseph Le Brix

Same aircraft seen in another movie at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg. F-ALCC, Bleriot 110

Reg. F-ALCC, Bleriot 110

De Havilland DH88 Comet

Percival Gull

Savoia Marchetti S.55

Lockheed Vega 5B

14 January 1935 : Amelia Earhart flew straight from continental USA to Hawaï aboard NR-965Y.

Vickers 292 Wellesley Mk I

November 1938 : non stop flight from Egypt to australia by special Vickers Wellesley, the type 292 (only 3 built).

Avro Anson Mk.I

Behind the three Vickers Wellesley type 292, an Avro Anson.

Canadian Vickers Vedette

Short S.23 Empire

Registration G-AEUE, serial n° S847.

Reg.G-AEUE Short S.23 Empire Cameronian of Imperial Airways.

Short S.23 Empire

Registration G-ADUT, serial n° S811.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-ADUT Short S.23 Empire Centaurus of Imperial Airways.

Short S.23 Empire

Registration G-AEUC, serial n° S845.

Reg.G-AEUC Short S.23 Empire Corinna of Imperial Airways.

The wireless radio operator.

Short S.23 Empire

Registration G-ADHM, serial n° S804.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-ADHM Short S.23 Empire Caledonia of Imperial Airways.

Short S.23 Empire

Registration G-AETV, serial n° S838.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-AETV Short S.23 Empire Coriolanus of Imperial Airways.

Boeing 314

Boeing 314 of PAA-Pan American Airways System.

Boeing 314 of PAA-Pan American Airways System.

Short S.26 Empire

Will be operated by RAF and by BOAC post WWII.
Registration G-AFCI, serial n° S871.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-AFCI Short S.26 Empire Golden Hind of BOAC-British Overseas Airways Corporation.

Unidentified Aircraft

What should be a Boeing 247 to speak about the record commercial transcontinental flight done in mid 1933 between San Francisco and New York.

De Havilland DH91 Albatross

Registration G-AFDK, serial n° 6804.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg. G-AFDK De Havilland DH91 Albatross Fortuna of Imperial Airways.

Douglas DC-4E

Douglas DC-4E, reg. NX18100, s/n 1601.

Douglas DC-2-115E

Reg. PH-AKH Douglas DC-2-115E, Ulver of KLM-Royal Dutch Air Lines.

Savoia Marchetti SM.73

I-ORTE, third aircraft of the second batch (c/n 30010).

Autogiro Company of America AC-35

Focke-Wulf Fw 61 V1

Mid february 1938, at the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Travel Air 2000 Besler Steam System

(N)X4258 serial 358

Snyder Arup n°2

1932

Nemeth Parasol

Ingeneered in 1934 by Steven P. Nemeth and registered as (N)X13651

De Rougé Elytroplan BL-10

This is the 1937 built with Bouffort & Landris, BL-10.

Waterman Arrowbile

The Arrowbile first flew on 21 February 1937; 5 examples built including X262Y.

Appleby Sv HM14 POU-DU-CIEL

One of the UK's variant from Henri Mignet HM.14 design.

G-ADMH, c/n SVA2

Supermarine S.6

Winner of the 1929 Schneider Trophy.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Supermarine S6 N247.

Supermarine S.6B

Only racer of the 1931 Schneider Trophy.

"1", Supermarine S.6B S1595.

Fiat C.29

Not ready in time for the 1929 race.

De Havilland D.H.82B Queen Bee

The de Havilland D.H.82B Queen Bee was a radio controlled target aircraft.

Reg. K-5112, De Havilland D.H.82B Queen Bee

Bristol 138A

First flight in november 1936.

Short S.20 Mercury “Mayo Composite”

Registration G-ADHJ, serial n° S796.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-ADHJ Short S.20 Mercury “Mayo Composite” of Imperial Airways.

Short S.21 Maia “Mayo Composite”

Registration G-ADHK, serial n° S797.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Reg.G-ADHK Short S.21 Maia “Mayo Composite” of Imperial Airways.

BFW M.23b

Designed by Willy Messerschmitt.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

BFW M.23b, registration D-1881 (WerkNr. 510) flown by Willy Stöhr.

Junkers F 13

Klemm L 25

Klemm L 25 c XI

Landing on the Zupspitze mountain.

Klemm L25 c XI D-2397 of Enst Udet.

Hawker Demon

Bristol 142 Blenheim Mk.I

Bristol 130A Bombay Mk I

Hawker Osprey

Hawker Hurricane

Unidentified Aircraft

Twin engine biplane flying boat.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk I

Unidentified Balloon

Unidentified Glider

Schleicher Rhönbussard

Another shot from "Wunder des Fliegens".
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Slingsby T6 KirbyKite

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See also

• The Conquest of the Air at IMDb
• The Conquest of the Air at Wikipedia