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THE FLIGHT OF BRYAN Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: The genre-busting tale of how unemployed amateur cyclist, Bryan Allen, and heavily in debt father of three, Paul MacCready, together with a ragtag team of neurodiverse outliers, set out on a death-defying and madcap quest to untangle the mystery of human powered flight and in doing so win the most coveted prize in aviation.

Built from a remarkable trove of recently discovered 16mm footage along with an arsenal of fourth wall-busting innovative techniques, this uplifting story of ingenuity, courage and determination, challenges us to question the assumptions we make about about society’s outliers and reminds us of how the stories we tell can help us to understand and perhaps change the world.

THE FLIGHT OF BRYAN
Out 22 November, 2024
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.
00:11I 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. A hundred thousand dollars?
00:28The team, each one of them was very unique and not in any way ordinary.
00:34We all had our problems and we all had our superpowers.
00:41Brian was an extremely good hang glider pilot.
00:46I had like 75 crashes.
00:50Paul was kind of like a visionary.
00:52I've calculated that we can bring down the weight.
00:55And what are we going to call it?
00:56The Gossamer Penguin.
00:57What?
00:58Penguins don't fly.
01:01Man throughout history has been seized with this symbolic compulsion to fly.
01:06It's spiritual. It's elemental.
01:10And usually terribly unsuccessful.
01:14It was definitely a race. It was definitely a competition.
01:17France built the Aviette and Japan also had their eye on the prize.
01:22We've got to get this done as soon as we can.
01:24We are definitely not ready to actually achieve this.
01:28Word has gone out to every major television station in the world.
01:32The plane is going to fly across the English Channel to the coast of France.
01:36Well, it's about 22 miles.
01:38We've never flown a plane over water.
01:40What kind of safety mechanisms were in place?
01:43Basically nothing.
01:47If I go in the water, I'm going to go instantaneously into thermal water.
01:52I'm going to go instantaneously into thermal shock.
01:55Looking at the weather, this is going to be a real crapshoot.
01:58And I'm a terrible swimmer.
02:00Go ahead.
02:01You'll never do it.
02:22.