Скачать или смотреть The Flight That Almost Killed Aviation: Wright Brothers’ Forgotten 1908 Disaster

17 September 1908, Fort Myer, Virginia.
Orville Wright is demonstrating the world’s first practical aeroplane to the U.S. Army.
One snapped propeller blade, one broken control wire, and 4 minutes later the Wright Flyer plunges from the sky in the first fatal aeroplane crash in history.
Orville is left with a shattered spine and lifelong pain. His passenger, Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, becomes the first person ever killed by a powered aircraft.
Yet from this near-catastrophe came the breakthroughs that saved the Wrights’ reputation and changed aviation forever:

The record-breaking 1-hour flights just days earlier
The redesigned 1909 Military Flyer that finally won the Army contract
How the crash forced the Wrights to invent the safety features we still use today

This is the dramatic, rarely-told story of the week in 1908 when the future of flight hung by a single thread.
All footage and photos are authentic period material or meticulously reconstructed for historical accuracy.
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