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U.S. Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar and takes off from airfield for first test flight in Detroit,Michigan.

First test flight of metal airship in Detroit,Michigan. United States Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar at the airfield. People stand near airship. It takes off.

Date: 1929, August 24
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072929
A Ford Trimotor airplane on an airfield, during the Ford Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford Trimotor airplane on an airfield, during the Ford Reliability Tour. A crowd gathered around the airplane. NC 401H written beneath one of the wings of the trimotor airplane. An aircraft in flight over the airfield.

Date: 1929
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066162
Ford Motor plant workers work on the final assembly line at the Ford Motor Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

Ford Plant workers work on the final assembly line at the Ford Motor Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Workers assemble Ford automobiles. Many assembly line scenes, including engines being positioned in car chassis; car body being placed on chassis, and assembly of wheels. Some Ford work men are seen moving back and forth quickly on dollies or scooters with wheels, to allow them to move quickly from car to car as they continue moving on the assembly line, while the workers remain at a lower working height.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675030070
The U.S. Army Air Service Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark" being refueled in midair from a Douglas C-1, in 1929.

Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051736
Unloading of lake freighter at River Rouge Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

A huge crane unloads lake freighter at the dock and the River Rouge Ford plant visible in background. Close ups of the crane unloading ore from freighter. A man in the crane cage operating the crane while crane scoop scoops the ore out. Two huge cranes unloading the freighter.

Date: 1929
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030994
Metal working at Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan

View of a huge metal working machines crafting metal parts at the Ford River Rogue plant. Various machines are shown working in concert to fashion metal parts. Workers preparing gasoline tanks, rolling to edges of the tanks in a machine to seal the edge seams.

Date: 1929
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030996