Pilots Bernt Balchen, in a cap, and Floyd Bennett, in a fedora hat, stand in front of a Fairchild FC-2W airplane, at Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) in Quebec, Canada. In another scene, Dr. Louis Cuisinier, technical director of Trans Continental Airways Limited,stands with them. He points to a page in a book and gives Floyd Bennett a box of cigars to be taken to the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had force-landed on Greenly Island, Quebec, after a transatlantic flight. (Note: Floyd Bennett was suffering with pneumonia, and became gravely ill soon after these shots were made. He did not pilot a plane to Greenly Island. Instead, he was rushed to Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City , where he died on April 25, 1928.)
Canadian Bush pilot, Duke Schiller (in coat and tie) and cameraman Ray "Swede" Fernstrom, relaxing after return from Greenly Island in Quebec, Canada, where they had flown to assist the crew of the Junkers airplane "Bremen" that force-landed after completing a transatlantic flight. They relax with a drink. Fernstrom smokes a cigarette.
"Patrician" passenger airplane carries 24 passengers in New York. The all metal Keystone K-78 monoplane parked at Mitchel field. Men gather near the airplane. It flies in the sky. Aerial views of the aircraft in flight. Fascinating aerial views of New York City skyscrapers from relatively low aerial height, including the Woolworth Building and a clock tower building, as seen through the windows of the Keystone aircraft.
An airplane parked at an airport in Chicago, Illinois. "Sky diner" written on the airplane. Men and women stand near the passenger airplane. The plane takes off. It flies in the sky. Chef preparing food on board the flying restaurant. A steward or flight attendant serves food in the plane. Men and women customers eating food in the flying diner.
Monoplane aircraft designed by Major Schroeder shows Plexiglas nose in New York. Large flaps on the wings of the plane. The airplane stands in the field. Men gather near the plane. X-58 N written on the plane.
Safety planes in Guggenheim Aircraft Competition. Aircraft on the field. Pilots in cockpit. The plane takes off. Burnelli CX-3 in flight. A guard tower in the background. Other plane in the field. A British entry, the Handley Page H.P. 39 "Gugnunc" with slotted wing seen on the airfield. It takes off. Other plane takes off.
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