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Leo Valentine Bird Man AKA Bird Man 1955
Description
Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown.
Yeadon, West Yorkshire
MS Crowd in summer clothes on a hot day, waiting for action. CU Man looking at sky with binoculars.
Various shots, bird man, Leo Valentine, fixing position on plane, about to...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Heather
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Mute
- Media URN:
- 79628
- Sort Number:
- UN 2741 C
- Time in/Out:
- 01:00:00:00 / 01:03:11:00
- Canister:
- UN 2741 C
- Film ID:
- 2684.01
- Issue Date:
- 1955
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"Leo Valentine" in the title, text and tags should read Leo Valentin.
"Light single engine aircraft taxiing out" - it's a Morane-Saulnier MS-502, Reg. No. F-BEJQ.
Rather than performing "stunts", Frenchman Valentin aimed to achieve human flight by jumping from planes and then using his bird-like wings.
Sadly he died the year after this footage was shot, following an accident while exiting a plane over Liverpool. Attached is a newspaper article from the era reporting the incident...
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W3UuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OoAFAAAA
IBAJ&pg=2734,3049469&dq=léo+valen
tin&hl=en