Construction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. A small model of the buildings. A pilot seated in cockpit of helicopter. Aerial view of the city of New York with its tall buildings, viewed from the height and location of the not-yet-completed World Trade Center. Workers construct the World Trade Center building. One of the twin towers partially completed. A steel worker, John McCeever stands in front of the building and talks about his participation in building the tallest building in the world. Views of cranes, steel beams, and workers building one of the towers.
Front line steel production in Differdange, Luxembourg. View of the steel plant. Train loaded with coal and lime stones on railway track. Interior of the plant shows making of steel. I-beams rolled at the plant. Two workers stand next to I-Beams.
United States 90th Infantry Division occupies Chambois in France during World War 2. Soldiers patrol in streets of Chambois. An M4 medium tank parked in the street. Soldier on alert, advances in front of a building. View of war wrecked buildings with smoke in the background. Group of soldiers stands next to an M-10 tank destroyer.
U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. A gunnerchecking out the Scarff ring mounting of his Lewis machine gun in the rear cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 bomber aircraft. His pilot approaches the aircraft and gets in the cockpit. The pilot and the gunner both shake hands with an American officer who reaches up to them from the ground. Then they settle down in their cockpits for engine start. Three ground crewmen with hands linked together, pull the propeller through several times before they manage to start the aircraft engine. They move away from the aircraft as the engine fires. They pull chocks from in front of the wheels and the aircraft taxis onto the airfield. The airplane tail displays the French blue-white-red vertical paint stripe scheme.
The history of famous airplanes. A demonstration of the Wright airplane at the National Cash Register Company in 1911. The Wright Brothers' aircraft (Wright Model B, number 27) taxis across a grassy area in front of the company building in Dayton, Ohio. The aircraft takes off. Pilot Rogers at the controls of the aircraft. The aircraft in flight near the NCR building.
The history of famous airplanes. A Bellanca aircraft in Mineola, New York. A small girl christens the aircraft. She breaks a bottle of champagne over the propeller of the aircraft. A crowd in the background. The three crew members of the aircraft - pilot C. D. Chamberlin, navigator L. W. Bertaud and pilot Bert Acosta pose. The aircraft taxis across an airfield. 'Paris' written on a side beneath the front windows. 'Bellance' written on the tail. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft approaches for a force landing after damaging the left landing gear wheel during the take off. The pilot sets the airplane down on the right gear. The airplane slows down, settles back upon the left wheel which collapses. The aircraft wheels around to the left dragging on a wing tip. Spectators run towards the crashed aircraft. The landing gear is repaired.
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