Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.
Parachutist jump and set a new record at Chanute Field in Illinois, United States. Ten parachutists board a transport aircraft. A close up of heads and faces of the men framed in the circular doorway of the aircraft. The C-3 transport aircraft in flight. The parachutists jump one after the other. They descend towards the earth. Eight parachutes descend. The airmen who made to jump.
Aircraft dust cotton fields and swamps to kill boll weevil and mosquitoes in the United States. A hangar. A pilot and crew members stand in front of the hangar which has three compartments. Officers and civilian pilots of aircraft check a map of the area to be dusted. U.S. Army aircraft De Havilland DH-4M2 in the background. Crew members prepare two De Havilland DH-4M2 for the take off. The aircraft dust the cotton fields. Swamps are sprayed to destroy malaria mosquitoes. The aircraft hedge-hop over swamp lowlands and tree covered terrain dusting the spray. A haze over the area.
A tornado in Texas, United States. Ruined villages in Texas. A stretcher case being carried out to a U.S. Army Air Corps Cox-Klemin XA-1 ambulance aircraft. The XA-1 taxis and takes off. A large red cross painted on the side of the fuselage and on the tail of the aircraft. A flood in the United States. The flooded areas. A small island of land protruding out from the water surface. Cattle and people are gathered on it.
Photographic mosaic map making in the United States. An aerial photographic camera equipped with three lenses. Two lenses of the camera are held by U.S. army Air Corps personnel. A view of aerial mosaic of a large city.
Aircraft in flight in the United States. An aircraft flies over the Grand Canyon of Colorado. United States Army Air Corps Curtiss P-6 Hawk aircraft in formation flight. Clouds in the background. Twin rudder of a USAAC Keystone LB-5A shows scattered cumulus cloud in the background. The aircraft in flight. Smoke rises from a forest fire. Mountain ranges.