Charles B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker on a Lockheed Vega airplane named "Yankee Doodle"in Los Angeles, California. The plane in flight. It lands in Los Angeles, after traveling non-stop from the Atlantic coast. Side of the plane reads 'Yankee Doodle', single engine monoplane. Collyer and Tucker get out of the cockpit and stand.
Scenes of a farmland in the United states. A flock of sheep on a road passing through woods. Sheep are herded through a gate. Buildings in the background.
Captain Charles A. Lindbergh in Antwerp, Belgium after his trans-Atlantic flight. View of the Spirit of St. Louis. The plane takes off. Lindbergh at an airport in Belgium. People gather at the airport. The plane lands and bystanders watch. Lindbergh is greeted. People gather at a palace. The plane lands in London Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 0XZ). People gather upon the arrival of the Spirit of St. Louis. Lindbergh poses with United States Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson B. Houghton. Lindbergh addresses the people.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in Washington DC after his trans Atlantic flight. The ship Memphis docks at a harbor. Lindbergh is greeted by people. Scenes of a navy yard. The ship Memphis arrives at the navy yard. People wave. He walks out of the ship followed by other navy officials. He is seated in a car and other officials accompany him. Lindbergh is decorated by President John Calvin Coolidge at the Washington Monument. A large crowd gathers.
Early attempts at flight during history of aviation. The Pitt Sky Car ornithopter device is seen: A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. 'Sky car' written on a cloth sign on the chassis of the aircraft. A man in aviator's clothing seated at the controls of the machine. The powerful motions of the pulsating rotor cause the machine to rise several inches. But it simply drops to the ground again. This happens with each oscillation of the rotor. (The motor-rotor devise was invented by John W. Pitts, of Detroit, Michigan, and patented in 1926. However, as seen in these images, it was a failure.)
Views of Heidelberg, Germany, on the Neckar River. German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann and U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman, pose together outside Heidelberg University, on the occasion of their joint awards of honorary degrees. Scenes inside the university as they proceed down stairs accompanied by University faculty and officials.Outside, each of them converses with University officials in academic attire. Stresemann and Schurman pose flanked by the university officials.
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