The VS-300A helicopter, built by the Vought-Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation,Stratford, Connecticut. Demonstration free flight without cables attached to ground. A slight improvement on the VS-300, the sign on side of helicopter reads, 'VOUGHT-SIKORSKY VS-300A' This is an early 300A with two tail rotors. Inventor and Engineering manager of the company, Igor Sikorsky, is at the controls. The helicopter ascends and then descends and lands.
German soldiers advance in European Theater during World War II. German soldiers maneuver in a field. A flaming airplane falling from the sky. Naval gunfire at night. German soldiers entering a town.
A flight of three German Dornier 17 bombers in flight, silhouetted against the lighter dusk sky, somewhere over Europe during early phase of World War Two.
National City Bank in Manila, Philippines. Filipino bank employees work at a coin counting machine. Tabulating cheques. People queuing at bank teller window. Filipinos write cheques.
A German airfield where bombers are getting ready to take off on mission to blitz bomb London, England during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. View from one of the German aircraft in a large formation of Junkers 88 bombers in flight. Aerial view as the aircraft pass over the coast of England, United Kingdom. The shoreline visible below. Point of view from inside cockpit of German aircraft mission during bombing raid. British defenders employ lights and antiaircraft fire. Bombs can be seen as exploding lights in the darkness on the ground.
Views of a Latécoère 521 flying boat powered by six 860 hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs engines configured with four pusher puller engines inboard and two pullers (tractor engines) outboard It is being lowered by a crane into the water. Straps and cables support the flying boat beneath the crane. View of starboard tractor engines running. A crew member wearing goggles seen near open hatch. Stern view of the flying boat on takeoff across the water, with wake visible behind. Navigator bending over charts at his work station.Crew member speaks to another wearing headset. Ship seen underway below. Sailor with binoculars out a hatch on the flying boat. Closeup of the freighter from above. She displays a Maltese cross on her funnel and and plain cross on her hull. A crewman aboard the flying boat photographs the ship. Views of the ship as the flying boat passes above her. Scene shifts to a crew member crawling through a tunnel between compartments. He speaks to an officer from the tunnel. Brief view of navigator adjusting gyroscopic compass in roof of his compartment. Radio operator at his station,moving a loop antenna to determine signal direction. Pilot at the controls receives message from a crew member.Views of an airfield. .Several small warplanes and a Junkers JU-52 are parked on the field. What appear to be many bomb craters cover an area on the field. Ground view of aircraft wreckage. a line of Henschel HS 126A-1 utility aircraft. Damaged biplane with bent prop. Junkers Ju-52 taxiing with Adolf Hitler seen inside.Soldiers waving goodbye, as the Ju-52 takes off.The Lufthansa Ju-52 airborne. Hitler inside the cabin chatting with an officer. The aircraft landing, and Hitler being greeted by the local commanding officer. Hitler and officers taking lunch at an outdoor field kitchen. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)