The Man-Bird Plane (1927)

Item title reads: “The man-bird plane. F. Schulz breaks all “glider“ records by remaining aloft 14 hours 8 minutes in motorless’ plane.“ Germany L/S glider aircraft seems to hang in the air. M/S of a group of people in a open, barren landscape. They gather and look up at the sky. There is an aircraft in the sky, which seems to just hang like a buzzard. C/U of the the pilot waving. Some horses pull the aircraft up a snowy slope. The release wires fly away and there are ground to air shots, of the aircraft, and its shadow on the ground. The crowds watch as it seems to hang static in the air. FILM ID:684.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire