United States Air Corps Lieutenant Roscoe Charles Wilson is seen wearing civilian clothing and parachute. Lt. R.C. Wilson, a pilot, climbs into the cockpit of a modified Boeing P-26 fuselage. The fuselage is mounted in a jig designed to protect the propeller during landing accidents. The entire fuselage is tipped over slowly as a means of demonstrating the protection device. Lieutenant Wilson in cockpit pushing against sponge rubber in top of canopy.
United States Army Air Corps ground crewmen work in front of row of parked Martin B-10 aircraft before WW2. Pilots standing by portable gas heater warming their hands and feet. A ground crewman removing portable gas heater from under canvas covering the nose of a Curtiss A-12 Shrike. Two ground crewmen putting booties on "Prince" the squadron collie dog mascot. Crewmen putting on sheepskin flying suit while another wearing a cold weather flying mask helps. Close up of crewman in cold weather mask. Close up of engine as it starts up. Martin B-10 bombers in flight over snow. A gunner in B-10 rear canopy. A B-10 in flight. View rear through B-10 bomber vertical stabilizer. Camera man without canopy operating a hand cranked 35mm motion picture camera. B-10 bombers in flight at night.
A truck drives up in front of a U.S. Army Air Corps Keystone B-6A biplane bomber at a hangar on Langley Field. The U.S. airmen move supplies from truck to plane. Aerial view of Tangier Island through wing of B-6A plane. The island is surrounded by ice. The bundles of food being dropped through bomb bay of B-6A onto Tangier Island. Distant views of planes over snow covered Tangier Island.
A Junkers G.38 transport aircraft (D-2500) in flight over Germany in the late 1930s, before World War 2. A small, single-place, tailless monoplane with turned down wing tips in flight. A Fieseler Fi 156 Storch making short takeoff and steep climb over control tower of an airfield. The first functional helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 helicopter (D-EKRA) (later Focke-Achgelis Fa 61), demonstrating its hovering ability.
A Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 (“Albert Dossenbach”) taking off overhead and in flight over Germany, pre World War 2. A Heinkel He 111 transport airliner (D-ABYE) with Nazi Swastika empennage in flight to left. A Lufthansa Junkers Ju-86 in flight. Lufthansa Focke-Wulf Condor transport plane (“Brandenburg”) in flight to right. Aerial view of airfield showing rows of Ju 52 transport planes and Focke-Wulf Fw-56 Stösser trainer aircraft.
Britain's Military Academy at Sandhurst, presents a Silver Service to be used at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Major General John Leonard, U.S. Army, military attaché in the United Kingdom, accepts the Silver Service, on behalf of the West Point Academy. The Sandhurst cadets march past in a parade ground. Britain's War Secretary, Emmanuel Shinwell, and General Leonard review the marching cadets.
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