man first decided to fly no doubt about that cattle did man first get the idea of flying well the idea of flying has been in man's mind for a long time just probably ever since you first notice but when did you first do something about it well as an old greek legend about a man named icarus who made a pretty successful flight how with wings like those of a bird or what happened to him he did all right until he got a little over man first do anything about making a flying machine well if we skip over the wright brothers and all the others who contributed so much to modern aeronautics we'd end up with leonardo da vinci is machines where the first ones are which we have any real record we are not of the french i thought he was a painter and you're right one of the world's great but he was also a sculptor architect doctor scientist engineer on practically everything else you can think of as well as an inventor man still feeling it was unfinished but the funny thing out there on the right that's the vinci's model of a ten barrel gun a forerunner of the modern machine gun he also had ideas for tanks armored cars and many other instruments of war centuries before they were ever built the vinci was far ahead of his time in fact it wasn't until our own century that his greatness as a fine tip was fully realized for instance there is his model of a swinging bridge projector sketches of pulleys and many other things crime it's a fact that the vinci's model for a helicopter that aerial screw was meant to be turned by manpower at speed to lift the machine occupant into the air of course manpower would never have done it but if the vinci had had a motor that helicopter would actually have flown around catching less than another model of a flying machine that's right jeff leonardo developed the principles of both vertical and horizontal flight and back machine is the original forerunner of our aircraft conceived almost four centuries before man finally got off the too many approaches to feel complete of your ideas an experiment mr davinci i'm going to refocus a few screen from your studio in the sixteenth century and show you some of the things that are going on in the world today these are but a few of the types of aircraft that have developed from your original flying machine you lack an efficient source of power which has since been supplied your theories are flying were far ahead of your time and the original experiments you made in your studio led to these as during flight thousands of airplanes come and go through the day through the night carrying passengers and cargo regular scheduled all over the world and here the helicopter which the model of your aerial these are wind tunnel inside of which conditions of life are manufactured and experiments with air currents are carried on inside those tunnels winds are made to blow hundreds of miles per hour for that flying machine may be one of the great works of art and you are known as one of the greatest of  and now mr divinity i'm going to send you back to your studio in the sixteenth century your life has been most worthwhile and you still have much to do you see a nice duddies and experimental certainly not hang on hang on for most fortune treated that's right then he really was ahead of his time yes but once we got off the ground we really moved fast and there's no telling where it will end