U.S Army ground crews prepare Fokker C-2 Trimotor aircraft called "Bird of Paradise." Crowd at Oakland Airport as plane takes off. Aerial views of Oakland Airport and surrounding area, as seen from aircraft over San Francisco Bay. Aircraft in flight. Aircraft lands in Hawaii less than 26 hours later. Lieutenant Alfred Hegenberger and Lieutenant Lester Maitland are greeted by large crowd in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, as they were the first aircraft ever flown from the United States to Hawaii. Leis placed around neck of Hegenberger and Maitland.
United Airlines Flight 615 crashed on approach to Oakland, California, killing all 50 passengers and crew. Rescue personnel search on the crash site of the Douglas DC-6 (N37550) into Dry Gulch Canyon southeast of Oakland. An officer inspects the debris. Personnel talk on telephone. Casualties carried on stretchers by rescuers. Damaged parts of the aircraft on the rugged mountain terrain. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents rush towards the site to investigate the wreckage of the aircraft crashed.
Amelia Earhart Putnam with associates preparing for her round-the-world flight, at Oakland Naval Air Station, California. Her Lockheed Electra aircraft (tail number: NR 16020) taxis slowly in front of Navy hangar. Small puddles of rainwater on the ramp. Paul Mantz ducks down into cockpit of the parked airplane and then reappears again. Engines of the Lockheed Electra are started and it taxis under guidance of ground crewmen. Amelia Earhart Putnam standing in cockpit of her airplane talking with Paul Mantz, as he tightens dzuz fastener on an access panel in fuselage. Earhart, Mantz and George Putnam huddle beside the airplane.
View of Amelia Earhart walking up the wing of her Lockheed Electra, parked in a hangar at the U.S. Navy Air Station, Oakland, California. She climbs into the cockpit. In the hangar, near the aircraft, she is seen talking with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz and Fred Noonan are seen briefly. Earhart and Mantz begin weighing each piece of equipment, while George Putnam records the weights. Mechanic Bo McKneely appears in white coverall, with "Grand Canyon Airlines" written on back. He converses with Mantz and moves to the airplane. Putnam playfully puts a tropical pith helmet on Earhart's head. Putnam brings a rubber life raft to Mantz and Earhart, who examine it. Fred Noonan joins the other three. Earhart gives Noonan a card on the end of a long pole. He reads and pockets it. (Note: The space, in the airplane, between cockpit and cabin, was so crowded with fuel tanks, etc. that Noonan was unable to reach it. So he would use the pole to pass position reports to Earhart during flight.) The four, Amelia Earhart, Paul Mantz, George Putnam, and Fred Noonan, begin placing the equipment into the aircraft cabin.
Large crowd watches from fenced area at U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, waiting to catch a glimpse of Amelia Earhart departing on her round-the-world flight. . Inside hanger number 3, Amelia Earhart Putnam, husband George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Paul Mantz, and Harry Manning, complete loading of the Lockheed Electra airplane, for the flight.
Narrator speaks on 'why black Americans should fight for their rights' and presents a list of demands of the Black Panther Party in the United States. View of residential areas in Oakland, California. Vehicular traffic on streets. African American children playing in a park. Black Panther Party members give the 'black power' salute and carry banners reading 'Free Huey' as they demonstrate outside the Alameda County Court House. White policemen on motorcycles and on guard. Black Panther Party's posters.
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