GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit German aviator Gustav Lilienthal demonstrates his ornithopter aircraft. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION - 'Flight of Fancy! 80-year-old German bird fancier shows his idea of an aeroplane' GERMANY: Berlin: EXT 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 Background: German aviator Gustav Lilienthal demonstrates his ornithopter aircraft. FILM ID: VLVA8V19DOYEG9O9YHEEXTQ9049LR To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by
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