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American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss prepares to fly his aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909.
American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss in Rheims, France in 1909. Curtiss sitting at the controls of his aircraft. Men assist in starting the engine of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis on a field.
Glenn Curtiss at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Rheims, France, in 1909
Glenn Hammond Curtiss at the controls his Pusher airplane, the "Rheims Rider", which he flew to win the Gordon Bennett trophy, on August 28, 1909, in the Grande Semaine d'Aviation, at Rheims, France. Ground crew turns propeller and engine starts. Glenn Curtiss taxis out for takeoff.
King Edward VII, of Britain, on State Visit with his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany, in Berlin, February 1909
Film opens showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, seated in a carriage outside a building covered with scaffolding. He is wearing a fur-collared great coat and a plumed hat. Several flags are decorated poles behind the carriage. His uncle, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, steps into the carriage. King Edward VI is wearing an overcoat and top hat. As Edward VI settles into his seat, an attendant cover both men with a carriage robe. As the carriage pulls away, an honor guard in formation at attention is seen in the background. The carriage carrying the Kaiser and the King is seen ahead of another one in which a woman is riding, accompanied by a man in top hat and a military officer in uniform. Local spectators stand at the side of road and on hills overlooking the roadway. A third carriage, drawn by a pair of white horses, carries a woman accompanied by a man in a top hat and a military officer in an elaborate plumed hat. A fourth carriage follows with a military officer and two statesmen in top hats. Film ends as horses pulling another carriage.
A map gives a comparison of various endurance flight across the Atlantic from 1909 to 1921.
Various endurance flights and their comparison. A map of the United States as it depicts the comparison of various endurance flights from 1909 to 1921. Map compares various flights like the 1910 flight by Glenn Curtis, trans continental flight in 1919 by O.C. Read, non stop trans Atlantic flight by Captain John Olcock. 1st transcontinental flight by R.C. Towler in 1912.
American aviator Glenn Curtiss flies an aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909.
The history of aviation. American aviator Glenn Curtiss at the controls of his first aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909. The aircraft starts to take off. Men stand in the foreground.
U.S. AEF soldiers set up machine gun defenses North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I
Two U.S. soldiers in a foxhole, set up a French Hotchkiss Model 1914 heavy machine gun, North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I. Several American soldiers crawl across a field and set up another Hotchkiss machine gun on a tripod. One of the supporting soldiers runs forward to give the gunners two ammunition cannisters. Scene shifts to another team setting up a Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun, on a tripod. Soldiers with ammunition are seen in background. Several American machine gunners step through their own barbed wire defenses to set up another Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun. A machine gun crew firing a Hotchkiss Model 1914, pointed skyward. One feeds strips of 8mm lebel ammunition into the gun. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
