The Conquest of the Air
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 129 Hindenburg
Look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Others).
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Short S.23 Empire
Registration G-ADUT, serial n° S811.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Short S.23 Empire
Registration G-AEUC, serial n° S845.
Short S.23 Empire
Registration G-ADHM, serial n° S804.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Short S.23 Empire
Registration G-AETV, serial n° S838.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing 314
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.
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.
Douglas DC-4E
Douglas DC-2-115E
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
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.
Supermarine S.6
Winner of the 1929 Schneider Trophy.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Supermarine S.6B
Only racer of the 1931 Schneider Trophy.
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.
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.
Short S.21 Maia “Mayo Composite”
Registration G-ADHK, serial n° S797.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
BFW M.23b
Designed by Willy Messerschmitt.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Junkers F 13
Klemm L 25
Klemm L 25 c XI
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
Back To:
See also
- Airco DH.16
- Antoinette IV
- Autogiro Company of America AC-35
- Avro Anson
- Beardmore R33 Class Airship
- BFW M.23
- Blériot XI
- Blériot 110
- Boeing 314
- Bristol 142 Blenheim
- Curtiss B-2 Condor
- De Havilland DH60 Moth
- De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth
- De Havilland DH86 Express
- De Havilland DH88 Comet
- De Havilland DH91 Albatross
- Douglas DC-2
- Douglas DC-4E
- Farman HF.3
- Focke-Wulf Fw 61
- Fokker F.VII
- Hawker Hart
- Hawker Demon
- Hawker Hurricane
- Henri Fabre Hydroplane
- Henri Giffard No 1 Ballon Dirigeable
- Jean-Marie Le Bris Albatros
- Jean-Pierre Blanchard Ballon Dihydrogène
- Junkers F 13
- Klemm Kl 25 / Kl 26
- Leonardo da Vinci Ornitottero
- Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel
- Montgolfier Aérostats
- Montgolfier-Réveillon Aérostats
- Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°11
- Otto Lilienthal Segelflugzeug N°13
- Robert Frères-Jacques Charles Aérostats
- Royal Airship Works R101
- Ryan NYP
- Santos Dumont Demoiselle
- Santos Dumont No 6
- Savoia Marchetti S.55
- Savoia Marchetti SM.73
- Schleicher Rhönbussard
- Short Empire
- Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim Flying Machine
- Supermarine S.6
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Travel Air 2000/3000/4000
- Traian Vuia I
- Vickers Vimy
- Vickers Wellesley
- Voisin Archdeacon Hydroplane
- Voisin Farman I
- Wright Flyer I
- Zeppelin Hindenburg class
- Zeppelin LZ 127
- Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- Imperial Airways
- KLM
- Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei
- Pan American Airways System