Aviator Charles Lindbergh being acclaimed in Washington D.C., United States upon his return to the United States, following his historic solo transatlantic aircraft flight from New York to Paris. Charles Lindbergh disembarks from the U.S. Navy Cruiser, USS Memphis (CL-13). Avenue, Washington D.C. Lindbergh and his mother, in an open car, with military escort. Their car is surrounded by newsmen and photographers, and guarded by several U.S. Army soldiers. View of Pennsylvania Avenue looking towards the Capitol. A military color guard marches across the avenue. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Lindbergh car moves along Pennsylvania Avenue. Sign on building reads: "Colonial Ice Cream." Mounted cavalry follow the car. View from above of a huge crowd in an open area. Scenes from Lindbergh's arrival in New York City, on June 13, 1927. He rides in an open car, from the Battery, in downtown, Manhattan, escorted by mounted policemen. People rush all around his car and ticker tape and confetti fill the air in a ticker tape parade.
Views of various historic early aircraft. The wright Brothers, assisted by ground crewmen, prepare a Wright Flyer for takeoff. The aircraft is placed into position on a catapult track. Men turn the propellers, and the engine is started. A large weight is dropped from a tower to provide thrust to the catapult, and the aircraft takes off and makes a low pass over the field. An early Bleriot flying machine, with box kite characteristics, takes off and flies over a field. A U.S. Army officer walks past two men working on a Wright Flyer (Wright Brother?). A Wright Flyer takes off and flies over a field. Theodore Roosevelt steps from a Wright plane after flying with Archibald Hoxsey at an airshow at Kinloch Field in St. Louis, Missouri on October 11, 1910. Roosevelt shakes hands with a man as several officials stand nearby. Views of two early airplanes in flight. Louis Bleriot in cockpit of his airplane, turns propeller by hand. The Bleriot XI airplane under full power, held back by ground helpers, and then let go for take off. An early monoplane in flight. An early airplane maneuvers and turns. An early seaplane lands on a body of water. A biplane plunging to earth and crashing.
On May 8, 1919 three Navy-Curtiss three-engine flying boats, the NC-1 commanded by Patrick N.L. Bellinger, the NC-3 commanded by John H. Towers and NC-4 commanded by Albert C. Read, take off from the Rockaway Beach Naval Air Station on first leg of transatlantic flight. Aircraft are readied for flight. Sailors hand supplies to crewman on NC-4. Sailors scramble all over NC-3 handling last minute preparations. Naval Commander John H. Towers, in charge of the expedition, poses for a picture. NC-1 in the water with line to a ship. Officers on board ship release weather balloon. NC-3 taxis out in the water and accelerates for takeoff, followed by NC-4, later seen airborne. NC-1 taxis out and is seen airborne. Views of the NC flying boats aloft.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen, Norway, being congratulated by other expedition members, after ostensibly making a round-trip flight to the North Pole and back, in their Fokker F.VII trimotor airplane named: " Josephine Ford."
Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." The Spirit of St. Louis landing at an airfield in the United States. People gathered around the Spirit of St. Louis, with its engine running.Lindbergh climbing aboard his airplane at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, and taking off on his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris. View of Lindbergh climbing steeply in the Spirit of St. Louis during his flight from Paris to Brussels, in 1927, Nightime scenes of crowds running to see Lindbergh upon his arrival at Le Bourget airfield in Paris on May 21, 1927. French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. The French President presents the Honor Legion Medal to Charles Lindbergh. Tug boats and fire boats fill New York Harbor to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh upon his arrival in that city. New York fetes Lindbergh with tickertape parade.
Early historic aviation footage focusing on French aviation pioneers like Gabriel Voisin and Alberto Santos-Dumont. An early French float plane taking off and landing. Multiwing box-like aircraft. Two early French monoplanes. Early aircraft that set performance records. 1919 picture of Raymonde de Laroche, Baroness de la Rouche, world's first woman flyer. Additional scenes of historical French aircraft and a scene with American pilot Glenn Curtiss.
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