Oehmichen : le génie oublié de l’hélicoptère et des drones – Documentaire Histoire Aviation - AT

At the beginning of the 20th century, in Europe and the United States, inventors of all stripes embarked on an incredible race to be the first to build a helicopter. But after failures and disasters, they gave up one after the other, completely discouraged. At the dawn of the 1920s, a few pioneers took up the challenge once again. 👋 + history documentaries 👉 http://bit.ly/3lqyFpY 🙏 Subscribe! In Europe, two men were competing: the Spaniard Pescara and the Frenchman Etienne Oehmichen. They would long be neck and neck in the race for records. But Oehmichen would be the first to complete a 1-kilometer flight in a closed circuit. His victory came from an original idea: while his competitors were trying to find technical solutions, he had the idea of observing animal flight. He built cameras that recorded the flight of birds and insects frame by frame. He would thus understand what, until then, had prevented humans from flying. The year 1924 would be the year of his triumph. Today, scientists are working to develop small flying robots designed to move autonomously through the air. These micro- or nano-drones are tiny helicopters that resemble insects. But today's researchers are facing the same challenges as Etienne Oehmichen. Like him, they are turning to dragonflies to decipher the complexity of their incredible flight performance. Will their work definitively prove the genius of the famous inventor? 'The Incredible Flying Machines of Professor Oehmichen' Directed by: Stéphane Bégoin Written by Thierry Zirnheld, Stéphane Bégoin All Rights Reserved - AT #documentary #history #aviation #drones #helicopters