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1929 QUIRKY / GERMANY: Aviator Gustav Lilienthal demonstrates his ornithopter aircraft
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0:30Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1929
Location: Unknown location
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION - 'Flight of Fancy! 80-year-old German bird fancier shows his idea of an aeroplane'
GERMANY: Berlin:
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Ornithopter aircraft (which attempts to fly by copying the flapping wing motion of birds) of Gustav Lilienthal wheeled from hangar / Gustav Lilienthal climbing aboard aeroplane / wings of aircraft being flapped but aircraft not taking off
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