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Test of rocket plane for carrying mail. It barely clears end of launch ramp and scoots along ice.

Experimenters place rocket plane (named Gloria), intended to carry mail, on a launch ramp. The rocket is ignited and plane rises but quickly falls to the frozen surface of the lake. It scoots along the ice.

Location: Greenwood Lake New York

Date: 1936, February 9

Duration: 11 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Rocket plane launched through a catapult during its experiment at Greenwood Lake, New York.

1936: Rocket testing in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket experimenter working at mail-carrying 'rocket plane'. Rocket plane launched through a catapult. Rocket plane in flight.

Location: Greenwood Lake New York

Date: 1936, February 23

Duration: 44 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Rocket plane designed to carry Mail is prepared for launch, but fails, in Greenwood Lake, New York.

A rocket airplane fails in the 1st mail test in Greenwood Lake, New York. A rocket designed to carry mail at a tremendous speed, is prepared for a launching. 'Gloria' written on the rocket. Men work with fueling tanks. The rocket on a ramp for launch. German-American rocket scientist, Willy Ley, wearing protecting gear, ignites the rocket. The rocket starts and flops on snow covered ground.

Location: Greenwood Lake New York

Date: 1936, February 23

Duration: 51 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English