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U.S. Army Lieutenant Benjamin Delahauf Foulois and Orville Wright sitting in the Wright aircraft in Virginia, United States.

The history of aviation. U.S. Army Lieutenant Benjamin Delahauf Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria in Virginia, United States. Wright, Lt Foulois and another worker stand near the control section of the aircraft. Foulois gets into the cockpit. Wright makes adjustment on the aircraft motor. The engine starts. Wright and Lt. Foulois sitting in the airplane.

Date: 1909
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070410
Wright airplane flies with first army personnel Lt. Frank Lahm over Fort Myer in Virginia, during an official exhibition.

Official trial of the Wright airplane at Fort Myer in Virginia, United States demonstrating compliance with specifications in the presence of the Aeronautical Board, U.S. Signal Corps. Orville Wright and U.S. Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm in the cockpit of the aircraft prior to the take off. The airplane is launched and it flies over barracks and administration buildings. U.S. soldiers remove doors from a storage building. The soldiers prepare to remove the aircraft from the storage building. U.S. Secretary of War William Taft, U.S. Army Major General George Owen Squier, Lieutenant Lahm and Major Faltpsam stand near the hangar building as the aircraft is being removed from it. Men tow launching weight up into the top of a tower. The launching tower shows weights suspended. A soldier moves the Wright aircraft out to the launching platform. Lieutenant Lahm sitting at the controls. Orville Wright stands in the front talking to a mechanic while another officer stands on the right wing of the aircraft. The aircraft is launched. Spectators watch the flight. Orville Wright making adjustments in the aircraft engine prior to the first cross-country flight in America: from Fort Meyer to Alexandria. A person in the back pulls the propeller through. U.S. Army Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois sitting in the cockpit.

Date: 1909, July
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075725
Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight

A film titled 'Lieutenant Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight. Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia and return'. Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight. They climb into the seat of the plane. Men aboard plane.

Date: 1908
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040851
Jet liners at Washington National Airport Terminal

A view of streets in vicinity of Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. A car travels along highway towards Washington National Airport. . Cars parked in front of the Washington National Airport Terminal. Parking area of the building. Pedestrians cross the road. A view of the street past the parking area. Traffic moves along airport road. Passenger aircraft comes in for landing. Jet liner in flight over Potomac River and over runway. Three engine Jet liner aircraft. Eastern Airlines passenger jet liner comes in for landing. Allegheny Airlines passenger jet flying low as it comes in for landing. Jet liner touches down. Jet aircraft landing at National airport. A Jet on the ground and another Eastern Airline Jet taxis. A United Airlines airplane lands. A view of red runway lights and smoke from jets.

Date: 1970
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041835
Newsreel depicts former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's visit to White House and other places in Washington DC area

Newsreel depicts the visit of former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the United States. Anthony Eden gets into a limousine at Union Station. The U.S. Capitol can be seen at a distance. The cars move towards the White House. Women wave goodbye to the cars. Eden and other officials visit George Washington's tomb and home, Mount Vernon, in Alexandria, Virginia. Views of Mount Vernon. Views of Eden's wife accompanying him.

Date: 1938, December 14
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036137
Destruction occurs from various natural and man made disasters in year 1949.

People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051642