He truly qualifies as a "Magnificent man and his flying machine". I loved this video.

You don't need a flying helmet, you need a _Pickelhaube_ and a Kaiser Wilhelm II moustache for that thing! Great job. Congratulations.

Beautiful! You can tell that the designer was trying to imitate a bird with his design. Especially the wing tips and tail feathers. Simply well-done.

It's amazing to see the oldest designs actually fly. That thing has as much rigging as a clipper ship, engine was heavy and low powered, the airframe was fragile, and in spite of all its technical drawbacks it still had one great attribute that kept the designers moving forward. That is, it could fly. A pretty amazing thing in those days and just as amazing now.

Those magnificent men and their flying machines :-)

I'm absolutely astonished by your video. I didn't even knew that the Taube had foldable wings! I the books I have on the matter it is not even mentioned, much less shown in plans. My total and most sincere admiration for your research , developement and construction on a most beloved plane. AG.

Everything about this is great, the plane, the music, and the flying. 👍 It’s so cool to see such a faithful replica take to the skies. I wish I had one myself.

8:14 Amazingly this plane on final approach looks like a 747 when filmed straight-on from the ground... both were visionary aircraft when they each took to the runways of time. Cool video, and thanks for keeping aviation history in the air today.

What a beauty! Thank you for taking us flying in it.

My great grandfather would love you. I will tell him from you by my next visit at his tomp in Salzburg. (Austria) Great job, great video.

BRAVO! My favorite plane of all time and so masterfully reconstructed. Well done! May you enjoy many happy flights with this beautiful machine.

Can you imagine how it was? One day, you hear they have these things called aero-planes, that fly in the air. And then you see one. And then a few years later, you see a plane like this once every blue moon, flying over. And you are amazed.

I'll bet the African Plane Builders are green with envy! It looks so simple........

J'aime surtout le charme du bois de l'hélice, si assorti au mobilier de l'époque, le bruit du moteur, et le chasse-boeuf au niveau du sol, pour éviter d'enfoncer l'hélice dans un bison ou un éléphant... UN GRAND MERCI ! mon père est né en 1905, pas étonnant s'il était devenu fou d'aviation... et il m'a filé le virus, mais je ne lui en veux pas.

I am absolutely amazed that I never found this video before, it should go viral!! What a great thing you achieved!! Congratulations!

One of the COOLEST things I have ever seen! I would love to see that plane in person or better yet be able to fly it! GREAT JOB!

Marvelous, what a wonderful achievement to recreate this remarkable aircraft. Thanks to the person who directed me to this video, allowing me to see a favourite aircraft in the air.

Please bring it to Old Warden. Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations. I also admire your courage in flying it over that predominantly unlandable terrain !!!!

I love the folding wings. Great for carrier use.

Wunderschönes Flugzeug, und butterweiche Landung! (wonderful and beautful plane, and very soft landing - in German you say "soft like butter")

wow... just wow. That old bird sure looks good up in the clouds. Huge respect for building that, and just as much respect for flying that... I mean, holy cow look at those wings! Your grandfather would not know what to say, he'd be completely amazed, he'd be so proud of your work.

I remember hearing a test pilot once talk about airplanes, he said "if it looks like a bird it will fly".

The music choice was spot on, Mike! Can't wait to see you fly it again in person this time.

Beautiful classical music, The Raditsky March from Johann Strauss SR.

To cap it all off, the smoothest of landings. Nuff Respect to this gentleman and Maximum Respect to his Grandfather and other brave Aviators of that era

Well done, what a draggy beast it is.

Spectacular reproduction! You are to be congratulated!

Nous somme en 2023! Ce magnifique Taube vole t-il toujours actuellement, merci pour la vidéo fort intéressante! Salutations de France. 😊👍

This is the most beautiful melody, the most exquisite airplane, and the most beautiful engine sound ensemble. Thank you! I also want to make a plane to finally enjoy all of this!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this! That thing wanted to fly even more than he did! BRAVO! Regards from the South Bronx in NYC!

Nice work on the aircraft, flying, and video!! Thanks for posting.

Nice addition to the fleet.

Amazing. I just need someone to build a Junkers J1 Bechesel and my happiness would be complete.

Simply as incredible as overwhelming! Thank you very much for sharing indeed!

Thank you so much for sharing this with us 🙏

You're either really brave, crazy or both to go flying around in that plane. LOL Best of luck and be safe.

Priceless ! Excellent !

certainly one of them most beautiful, if not the most efficient, airplane ever made.

Thanks for the video and your great job.

Wundervoll - das einzige Flugzeug der Welt, mit dem man im Nebel mit 40km/h stabil fliegen kann!

A fantastic achievement! Congratulations!

I love that its design is clearly adapted from that of birds.

Congratulations Mike!

Excellent work building .5/24/2023yr

OMG I call that a true brave pilot, it's like riding a giant eagle and taming it.....greetings

Beautiful landing for a beautiful machine!

Plans / drawings are in Volume 4 1913 Zeitschrift Fur Flugtechnik Und Motorluftschiffahrt! The large sized drawings have all the wood sizes, metal fittings etc. Than their is Taube Dove of War by J.A. de Vries book on subject 1978 also with drawings! as per book 54 different company's manufactured 500 + examples of 'Taube' type of aircraft!

Thank-you. 🙂👍 It must be very tricky to fly in anything but the calmest weather, when it relies upon wing-warping and with such a small vertical stabiliser. Congratulations on your achievement.

What a lovely machine :) Congrats on the successful maiden flight!

The lines are terrific. Nice plane.

Flying in a pair of shorts ! Bad ass lol. Great vid !!

HOW WAS EXCITING AT THAT TIME ! FANTASTIC !

She's a beauty 😍 Amazing that someone today can fly in one of these mad contraptions 😅👍

such a beautiful plane!

Fantastic, well done! Well worth the time and effort

It is a mechanical bird! Very beautiful, and the flyer is mighty brave. If you make another video, it would be nice to see the plane from overhead and directly from below to show off the bird-like shape. Also some close-ups and a tour of the different shapes, components, artistic features and engineering features would be a pleasure to see. It must have been a huge challenge to make something this complex that you would trust with your life.

I'm amazed this got into the air. Well done!

Imagine driving on the highway and looking up to see this in flight. Amazing.

Absolutely Beautiful . . . . . .

Outstanding!

Fantastik!!! Love this build

I say, bloody marvellous that man!!!!!

Wonderful work.

Flying by the seat of your pants...priceless. I know I would have something in the seat of my pants, trying to fly it!

truly wonderous.

Perfect !!!

Alh,those crazy old men in their flying machines, it takes a brave man to fly one of those things, looks like it could fold up on you at any moment

Magnificent!

Es una maravilla de aeronave, magnífico vuelo ¡Felicitaciones!

Just amazing.

She is beautiful. Such amazing work. Well done. Did you have original plans?

Bravo , Sr.! soft landing

Superb!

I like that truss system that's where the strength comes from

Beautiful

Very Nice!!!

An incredible achievement and a beautiful bird like design. I assume it is wing warping as I did not see ailerons. Lovely wings and tail feathers, it looked a joy to fly, but a calm weather flier I imagine. The folding wings are an advanced design and take up a smaller hanger space. I take my hat off to you as an ultralight flyer we have perhaps more modern attributes and engine reliability? Greetings from Tasmania Australia, 👍😁🇦🇺🦘

Stunning accomplishment! Congratulations. I too wonder why you decided to make the first flight in that location. I didn't see any clear areas other than the airfield. That plane is too valuable to risk in my opinion.

Now look at what you did, you created a work of art and a beautiful one at that. Maybe this is the real future of homebuilt aircraft, exact replicas that are slow flyers and with better engines and some structure changes in materials to increase strength or torsional stresses. With that said it must be a handful to fly with wing warping and limited dihedral. All of the rigging must sing in the wind and after awhile you wil note any changes that might spell disaster. I want a Santos Du mont Demosille (sic). Also a kite flyer known as the Red Devil. The original is somewhere in a garage in California awaiting a rebuild/restoration.

They now only take it off to an altitude of about 10 feet and then set her back down. I think they realized how delicate the airplane is. This video is the first time I saw it actually fly.

Fantastiche!

amazing

nice video!!

what a jewel

This is a beautiful airplane....why hasn't this aircraft and this project been covered more?!!!! Are you making plans available for this airplane and powerplant? It would be a wonderful project I'd love to look into seriously!

Great.

Beautifull! It was the plane that was shot down above Paris in 1914 or '15

9:50 Never stop the engine by cutting off the magnetos, you never know if someone is gonna touch that propeller afterwards, and with just a small force it can break your arm or skull and even kill you. always cut the mixture

THX

Germany started WW1 with these and finished with the Fokker D.VIII. That’s some progress in four years.

Did the wings fold in the original design ? Amazing recreation btw

What is the power plant? Beautiful plane.

Absolutely one of the most beautiful aircraft from that era. A fantastic job constructing that bird! My only advice would be, since you put so much time, money and effort into this reproduction and flight, spend a little more on filming and film production; the jiggling camera shots were awful.

It was only four years ago that this magnificent machine was filmed...with a potato.

When he took off I was looking for a French country side, not I 75. Thxs for the video.. gb

sehr schade, dass der Bodenfilmer kein Stativ benutzt hat! Ansonsten ein tolles Video!

What I would like to know if it is an original engine or replica of one powering this plane...

Now that's absolutely crazy! You gotta have nuts of iron to fly that bird!

na minha observação parece que foi o primeiro avião de asa dobrável, parabéns é um lindo avião

So how does it handle with wing-warping instead of alerons?