View of Hudson bombers (A-29) and workers inside Lockheed aircraft Plant where these planes are produced. A Hudson bomber taking off. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 is towed out of hangar, taking off and in flight.
U.S. Army Air Force plane P-38 taxiing in. Pilot puts on oxygen mask along with helmet and rides a bicycle. Pilot boards P-38 and P-38 in flight
Shows Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter taking off vertically and in flight. Clip includes early helicopters, early Ornithopters, and Igor Sikorsky piloting VS-300 on May 6, 1941, setting a new record of one hour and thirty two minutes for suspension flight. Scene after Sikorsky helicopter flight shows some experimental aircraft designs, early in the history of flight, including a helicopter design in the 1920s that would not rise, a windmill type airplane, and an airplane design with concentric circle wings. Next is seen an aircraft ornithopter with flapping wings. Scene returns to more shots of Sikorsky in his record breaking helicopter flight.
Views of six Boeing B-17B bombers in flight over California. They fly in loose formation over clouds. The snow-covered San Jacinto mountains are seen in the background.
Views of pilot loading bullets. Indicators of aircraft and pilot pulling triggers of aircraft Curtiss P-40C. P-40C on ramp firing six machine guns on the ground target. (World War II period).
U.S. Army Air Force Officers setting up a portable film laboratory besides aircraft C-45A. Aircraft B-26 dropping prints by parachute. Prints are developed in the mobile laboratory and then taken to Commanding Officer by jeep.
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