USS Essex (CV-9) underway in Manila Bay, Philippines during World War 2. F6F Hellcat of VF-9 flies past the Essex at low altitude for a gear check. Its landing gear is malfunctioning and can't be extended. The pilot is cleared to make a gear-up landing on the carrier. Next he is seen making a well-controlled touchdown near the beginning of the flight deck. Then the aircraft slides along the deck almost halfway, veering slightly to the right as it comes to a halt. It appears relatively undamaged except for a bent prop (and surely some underside damage). Deck crewmen rush to assist the pilot and bring fire extinguishers to bear on areas around the hot engine. An F4F, taking off during the emergency, veers off the side of the flight deck, but manages to continue safely. Meanwhile, deck crews continue to assist the pilot and safely secure the accident site.The pilot, apparently unhurt, is escorted as he walks away from the airplane.
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of Northrop Gamma 2G, NR13761, preparing to depart Chicago and attempting a speed record from Chicago Illinois to Los Angeles, California. Men standing near the parked airplane. The aircraft starts and taxis. Hughes pilot in the cockpit. Airport buildings in the background including an American Airlines terminal.
Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft in final approach and landing at airstrip of Union Air Terminal in Burbank California. It is arriving from its record setting speed flight from Chicago to Los Angeles, piloted by Howard Hughes. Aviator Howard Hughes emerges from cockpit and greets crew who approach plane as it taxis to a stop near terminal buildings. Howard Hughes walks away with several associates. He had flown from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California at a top speed of 215 mph, arriving in 8 hours and 10 minutes.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tests flight mission STS-3 of Space Shuttle Columbia in the United States. The Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) nozzles 1 and 2. Sparks come out from the parts of the space shuttle. The space shuttle during a launch. Fiery flare emitted as the space shuttle takes off.
Field agents catch a suspect in Frankfurt, Germany. The agents arrive at the house of a suspect in jeeps. They break in a door. The suspect tries to hide 2,50,000 marks in a radiator in the library. The suspect is forcibly brought out of the house by the agents and is taken away.
Sea plane base activity in the European Theater during World War I. A U.S. Navy Curtiss HS-2L seaplane lands and taxis to beach on coast of France during the First World War. . Ground crew sets plank for the crew to step to the beach. Several Curtiss seaplanes parked on a ramp near hangars. Weather is raining. Sailors maneuver a seaplane into a parking place. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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