English racing car driver Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Several men stand near his supercharged MG streamliner EX-135 car . He sits in the car and races it to set a speed record. Mountain ranges in the background.
Ski jumpers participate in the annual Tokle Memorial Jump at snow covered Bear Mountain in New York. Trees in the background. Canadian ski jumper Jacques Charland wins the jump. Crowd watches the event.
Snow covered Chinook Pass in Washington. Rotary snow plow and three bulldozers used to clean the forty feet snowdrift at the highway. Mountain ranges in the background. The roads cleared.
A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
Guggenheim Aircraft Competition at Mitchel Field in New York. American planes and planes from other countries participate in the competition for $150,000 prize money. A pilot enters the cockpit of a plane and takes off. A British plane 'Handley-Page' shows it's 'safety' slotted wings. The British plane in flight. The rules require quick take off and short stops of the planes.
Demonstration of a new amphibious vehicle at Tillamook in Oregon. The automobile rides as easily on water as it rides on land. 'Laurette' written on the amphibious vehicle. Men in the vehicle.
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