Early historic aviation footage focusing on French aviation pioneers like Gabriel Voisin and Alberto Santos-Dumont. An early French float plane taking off and landing. Multiwing box-like aircraft. Two early French monoplanes. Early aircraft that set performance records. 1919 picture of Raymonde de Laroche, Baroness de la Rouche, world's first woman flyer. Additional scenes of historical French aircraft and a scene with American pilot Glenn Curtiss.
U.S. soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. Soldiers in a trench. A cart arrives nearby. The soldiers unload cans from the cart. They cook food. The soldiers seated in the trench and eating food. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. German aircraft in flight overhead. A soldier watching the aircraft through binoculars. Other soldiers firing anti-aircraft guns at the aircraft. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A U.S. soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces jokes around, with an Asian civilian, for the camera. The soldier pretends to teach the other man elements of close order drill. The civilian performs facing movements. The soldier adjusts the man's hat to a jaunty tilt, after which the man salutes and marches toward the camera. Several soldiers and civilians are walking on street in background. A long.wall lines the street. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French woman test pilot, Jacqueline Auriol, gets into the cockpit of a French Dassault Mystere IV N jet fighter. She dons helmet and straps herself in. Aircraft taxis and takes off from runway. Personnel in the control room speaks over radio. Technician looks through a scope designed to observe speed. Group of French observers watch the aircraft in flight. The aircraft lands, taxis and parks on the ramp. Woman pilot Jacqueline Auriol climbs down from the aircraft smiling, for she has just regained the woman's world aviation speed record.
French troops marching. Convoy of French Army vehicles. Formation of aircraft bombing ground targets. Explosions on ground. The Eiffel Tower.
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