From the Austrian Film Archives, get up alarmingly close and personal with "Wilbur Wright und seine Flugmaschine - 1909."
It's a three and a half minute silent film of demonstration flights for journalists, recorded on 24 April 1909 by the French production company Eclipse in Le Mans, France, including apparently the first footage from a camera taken aloft by a flying machine.
The Wright brothers were bicycle manufacturers, but the flying machine in this film looks more like having been made of lawnmower parts. Check out the skids used as landing gear.
The photo is a screen grab from the site. Click it for a link to the movie page.
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