ABC - First Flight: Conquest of the Skies (2016)
ABC - First Flight: Conquest of the Skies (2016)
WEB-DL 1080p | 52mn | 1920x1080 | MKV AVC@3239Kbps | AC3@224Kbps 2CH | 1.28 GiB
Language: English | Genre: Documentary | Subs: English
WEB-DL 1080p | 52mn | 1920x1080 | MKV AVC@3239Kbps | AC3@224Kbps 2CH | 1.28 GiB
Language: English | Genre: Documentary | Subs: English
First Flight is a documentary about the controversy over the world's first motorized flight. Every school child is taught that the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright flew first in December 1903. But after years of research, Australian aviation historian John Brown argues that the German born immigrant to the US, Gustave Whitehead, flew two years before the Wright Brothers, in August 1901, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The film investigates this claim and shows how one individual's research can throw conventional theories to falter. Who flew first? Opposing Brown are historians supporting the official view that the Wright Brothers flew first. They claim that the 17 eye-witness accounts from the 1930s attesting to Whitehead's flights are unreliable. We also discover that in return for the right to display the 1903 flyer in their museum, the Smithsonian Institution agreed that it will never claim that anyone flew before the Wrights. History may not be as certain as we thought.
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ABC - First Flight: Conquest of the Skies (2016)
ABC - First Flight: Conquest of the Skies (2016)
