A U.S. Navy C-type or C-class blimp number C-7 takes off. A manned kite balloon is tested, floating above a U.S. Navy ship at sea. Sailors aboard a ship. An observation balloon towed by the stern of a battleship. U.S. Navy rigid airship USS Los Angeles leaves a large hangar. A Navy mechanic oils part of the airship's mechanisms during flight. USS Shenandoah airship in flight. USS Shenandoah airship (ZR-1) moored to mooring tower on the stern of the USS Patoka replenishment oiler ship. USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) airship leaves Friedrichshafen, Germany, where it was built as part of World War 1 war reparations, and is seen bound for New York as German crowd on the ground waves. Views from the USS Los Angeles in flight. U.S. President Coolidge and first lady Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge stand by USS Los Angeles upon its arrival in the United States.
A film on the development of air power. Air route development in Europe. Animated lines going from various cities of Europe including Germany and Poland.
Dornier Do J 'Wal' flying boat catapults from ship deck. Pilot, in bowler hat, seated between and behind wheels (underneath wing and engine) in an early Breguet aircraft, circa 1912, in France.
German funeral and reburial of German flying ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, seven years after his death. (His body had been originally buried in France, first in Bertangles and later in Fricourt). German soldiers march led by a band. The horse-drawn coffin escorted to the Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin. Dignitaries walking during the procession. Honor Guard fires gun salute. Clergy and honored guests performing graveside ceremony. General Paul von Hindenburg is seen along with many Pour le Mérite aces (also known as the Blue Max or Blauer Max), including Bäumer, Loerzer, Boenick, Bolle, and others carrying Richthofen's coffin. Also seen at 1:44 is Manfred von Richthofen's mother, Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen walking beside her youngest son (Manfred's youngest brother) Bolko von Richthofen (Karl Bolko Freiherr von Richthofen). Bolko had recovered the body from Fricourt and repatriated the remains.