Transatlantic flight by Yancey and Williams from Maine to Rome. Roger Q Williams and Captain Lewis A. Yancey start their flight from Old Orchard, Maine in Bellanca monoplane named "Pathfinder."They get into the aircraft and take a wreath to drop in the Atlantic in memory of lost aviators. Pathfinder monoplane in flight headed for Rome, Italy.
Forest fire in Arroyo Seco Canyon, California. Group of people extinguish fire by throwing mud on it. Blazing fire as smoke rising. Houses and trees on fire. Doctors and nurses give first aid to wounded men. They bandage the patient.
Operation Cue conducted at Yucca Flat region in Nevada. The test conducted to examine the effects of atomic explosion on buildings and houses. Nuclear bomb detonation occurs and a house explodes and fragments fly in the air due to the impact of the atomic bomb explosion. Dummies inside the house. Mannequins or dummies of a mother and a young boy inside the house.
American Lee Taylor sets water speed record in Turbo-Jet craft named 'Hustler' near Guntersville, Alabama. 'Compton California Youth Center' written on the speed boat. He rides his turbo jet craft Hustler on a lake near Guntersville. Lee Taylor sets a record of 285 miles per hour.
Speed and Altitude tests conducted by X-15 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress takes off from the runway with X-15 under its wing. Pilot Scott Crossfield seated in the cockpit of X-15. Captain Charles Bock and co-pilot Captain Allavie get into the U.S. Air Force NB-52A Stratofortress cockpit. Ambulances and vehicles near the aircraft. 'National Aeronautics and Space Administration' written on the building. NASA technicians check graphs and radar and monitor each movement of the flight. The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway with X-15 under its wing. Pilot checks controls seated in the cockpit. Pilots coordinate with the ground staff. U.S. Air Force F-100F, F-100C and F-104D aircraft in flight next to Boeing NB-52A. X-15 release from NB-52A Stratofortress.
Views of Cornell University where mechanical engineer, Stanford Moss, conducted research into gas turbines as part of his doctoral thesis work in 1903. Dr. Moss later joined the staff of General Electric Company. During World War I Dr. Moss is called to Washington DC to discuss, with the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), development of a turbo supercharger for airplane engines. View of a biplane with turbo supercharger mounted on top of radial engine. Animated diagram illustrating workings of a turbo supercharger. Using a supercharged engine, the U.S. Army Air Services established an altitude record of 36 thousand feet. (The pilot, flying without supplemental oxygen, passes out and doesn't regain consciousness until the airplane has fallen about 30 thousand feet.)
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