Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. The U.S. Air Mail Service makes use of commercial aviation. Snow covered mountains as seen from an aircraft. Animation of a small aircraft following a line across a map from New York to San Francisco. A U.S. air mail truck is backed up to a U.S. mail service converted Airco DH-4 aircraft on a grass landing field.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. A map of the United States with a caption that reads 'Commercial Air Lines Carrying Air-Mail Merchandise and Passengers'. The map is animated with a line from New York to San Francisco. Different places are highlighted on the map.
United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett become the first to reach the North Pole by air. Byrd's streamer Chantler arrives at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Two ships in an ice clogged harbor. Lt. Commander Byrd is welcomed by his friendly rival Captain Roald Amundsen. Amundsen climbs from one ship to another and shakes hands with Byrd. Byrd and Amundsen walk around and look over Byrd's Fokker tri-motor aircraft 'Josephine Ford' which is equipped with skis and is parked in snow. Workmen push fuselage and wing section of the Fokker tri-motor across the snow. The airplane moves down a snow clad incline. The ski equipped Fokker tri-motor aircraft takes off from a snow covered field in Spitsbergen. The aircraft returns and lands on a snow covered field after a flight to the North Pole. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in the background. Capt. Amundsen congratulates Byrd and shakes hands with him. Many people, dressed in heavy clothing, shake hand with Lt. Commander Byrd.
A North Pole expedition undertaken by Captain Roald Amundsen and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. Capt. Amundsen and Ellsworth aboard USS Knut Skaaloren arrive at Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard. They walk back and forth on the deck of the ship. Dirigible Norge arrives for a landing. A large hangar and snow covered mountains in background. A close up of Amundsen and Ellsworth. Airship Norge being backed out of a hangar. Snow clad hills in the background. A workman works on one of the motors on the side of the airship. Amundsen and Ellsworth in the gondola of the airship. They wave to the people around the gondola. Airship Norge takes off. 'Norge' written on the airship.
The need to develop air power in the United States. Battleships underway at sea. Eleven bi winged single engine aircraft fly in a V formation. A line of 6 battleships in water off the coast of New England, U.S. A 1920 vintage battleship fires a salvo from its guns at the enemy. The battleships fire guns. Shore batteries fire large guns. Sailors load a deck gun. An early model submarine. The submarine submerges. Its periscope visible above water surface. Naval crafts set their depth charges and fire them. Depth charges going off in the background. A ship sinks. A United States Army Air Service ( USAAS ) Curtiss PW-8 aircraft in flight. 4 bombs fall away from the aircraft. The bombs hit and explode on USS Alabama. Smoke rises as explosions occur on the ship. A ship rolls over and sinks. A USAAS Curtiss-Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall away from the aircraft. Explosions in water. Aerial and ground shots of a ship sinking. Large guns of a battleship fire. Animation of enemy airships and aircraft flying over water towards New York. Release of the aircraft from the airships. Aircraft flying over New York City. Aerial view of skyscrapers of the city. A Curtiss- Martin NBS-1 bomber in flight. Two bombs fall toward the ground. Animation of explosions against the New York skyline. A USAAS Curtiss JN-4 aircraft in flight. A bomb falls towards the ground. Animation of bombs hitting New York City. A machine gunner in a fighter aircraft fires at another aircraft. The aircraft falls and burns. Bomb explosions in the city. An observation balloon catches fire and falls. A man in a parachute descends near the balloon. Animation of a burning city. An early model submarine cruising. A bi winged twin pontooned aircraft in flight over a group of battleships and destroyers. A group of aircraft in flight. A Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight. Animation of an airship flying over a city and tying up to a mast located on the top of a tall building. A flag of the U.S. flutters in breeze.
Notable people in the field of aviation in the United States. Major General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, United States Army with Miss Katherine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers on the porch steps of a house. Rear Admiral William Adger, Chief Bureau of Aeronautics, United States Navy seated at a desk writing on a notepad. Colonel B. F. Castle, Treasurer of the National Aeronautical Association, seated at a desk. He looks at a document. Porter Adams, President of National Aeronautical Association at a gathering. Army, navy and other officials in the background. Frederick B. Patterson, Past President of the NAA presents a medal to Orville Wright, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the first flight. A close up of the medal.
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