49 Metros En 1890: ¡El Vuelo Olvidado Que Humilló A Los Hermanos Wright!

Clément Ader (1841-1925), a self-taught engineer born in Muret, near Toulouse, achieved the first powered takeoff of a heavier-than-air machine on October 9, 1890, 13 years before the Wright brothers. He coined the word "airplane," created the theatrophone in 1881, anticipating stereophony by 50 years, designed the first V8 engine in 1903, and accurately described the modern aircraft carrier in his 1909 book, L'Aviation Militaire. His Avion III, financed by the French Ministry of War, failed its tests at Satory in October 1897, leaving Ader ruined and forgotten. The Avion III is now housed in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The photos used in this video are from archive.org and are in the public domain. 00:00 The Forgotten Flight That Happened Thirteen Years Before the Wright Brothers 01:00 The Éole Lifts Off the Ground in History's First Powered Flight 02:00 Clément Ader Leaves the Railroads to Become an Independent Inventor 03:00 The French Inventor Revolutionizes the Telephone and Creates the First Stereo Sound 04:00 Ader Studies Bat Flight to Build His Flying Machine 05:00 The Word "Airplane" Is Born as Ader Builds an Impossible Machine 06:00 The French Army Secretly Funds the Dream of Military Aviation 07:00 The Airplane II Fails and Ader Decides to Create a Completely New Machine 08:00 The Airplane III Introduces a Twin-Engine Design Decades Ahead of Its Time 09:00 The Wings The Biomimetics of the Plane III Mimicked the Bone Structure of Bats 10:00 The Complex Control System of the Plane III Proves Impossible to Master 11:00 Ader Risks His Entire Fortune in the Final Tests of the Plane III 12:00 The Secret Tests at Satory Will Decide the Future of the French Inventor 13:00 A Crosswind Causes the Accident That Ruins the Military Project 14:00 The French Army Declares That the Plane III Never Actually Flyed 15:00 Clément Ader Is Bankrupt After Spending His Entire Fortune on Aviation 16:00 Military Silence Condemns Ader to Oblivion as the Wright Brothers Begin Their Experiments 17:00 Ader's Machine Inspires Future French Aircraft Builders 18:00 Ader He Continues Inventing and Designs the First V8 Engine in History 7:00 PM The World Recognizes the Wright Brothers While Ader Remains Forgotten 8:00 PM Ader Claims to Have Flighted Before Everyone Else and Sparks a Major Controversy 9:00 PM Official Documents Reignite the Debate About the True First Flight 10:00 PM Clément Ader Imagines Modern Aircraft Carriers Decades Before They Existed 11:00 PM Ader's Visionary Ideas Transform Aviation and Modern Warfare 12:00 AM France Takes Decades to Recognize the Legacy of the Man Who Invented the Airplane 12:00 AM The Avion III Survives as a Unique Relic of the Origins of Aviation 12:00 AM The Strange Wooden and Silk Machine That Changed the History of Flight 12:00 AM The Legacy Forgotten by Clément Ader and the First Human Dream of Flying