The Flight of Bryan | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Amateur cyclist and debt-ridden father join neuro-diverse team on madcap quest to achieve human-powered flight, winning  | dG1fWDd0OGlBUW5VTHc

Transcript

00:00Brian, why are you doing this?

00:05Jeez, that's kind of like asking what life is all about. I don't know.

00:10I was obsessive about flying.

00:14So, here we have you in a younger form.

00:17Pretty handsome, right?

00:19Scene one.

00:20They're doing what?

00:21Building a human-powered plane.

00:23Just for kicks?

00:24No, no, no. There's a prize. $100,000?

00:27I'm coming for the crown.

00:29The team, each one of them was very unique and not in any way ordinary.

00:35We all had our problems and we all had our superpowers.

00:40Cause I'm coming for the crown.

00:42Brian was an extremely good hang glider pilot.

00:47I had like 75 crashes.

00:51Paul was kind of like a visionary.

00:53I've calculated that we can bring down the weight.

00:56And what are we going to call it?

00:57The Gossamer Penguin.

00:58But what?

00:59Penguins don't fly.

01:01Man throughout history has been seized with this symbolic compulsion to fly.

01:07It's spiritual. It's elemental.

01:11And usually terribly unsuccessful.

01:15It was definitely a race. It was definitely a competition.

01:18France built the Aviette and Japan also had their eye on the prize.

01:23We've got to get this done as soon as we can.

01:26We are definitely not ready to actually achieve this.

01:30Word has gone out to every major television station in the world.

01:35The plane is going to fly across the English Channel to the coast of France.

01:39Oh, it's about 22 miles.

01:41We've never flown a plane over water.

01:43What kind of safety mechanisms were in place?

01:46Basically nothing.

01:50If I go in the water, I'm going to go instantaneously into thermal shock.

01:55Looking at the weather, it's going to be a real crapshoot.

01:58I'm a terrible swimmer.

02:00Go ahead.

02:01You'll never do it.

02:20NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology