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Demonstration of safety features of Minicar RSV concept car in the United States.

Public service announcement by U.S. Department of Transportation in a message that looks and sounds like an automobile advertisement. A parked Minicar RSV automobile (concept car) is seen. A man stands nearby and introduces the car. The safety features of the car make it unique. The car is demonstrated and multiple crash test scenes are shown, with the car bouncing back from crashes with little damage. Scene shows automobile air bags deploying in an accident. A man opens the gull wing style door and is seen seated in the car. He closes the door.

Date: 1979, April 9
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070454
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams talks about RSV mini car in the United States.

Production of Research Safety Vehicle (RSV) mini cars in the United States. NBC Newsman Jim Vance reads the news about a safety car produced by the United States Department of Transportation. He speaks about the features of the car. The RSV car moves along a street. The car on a ramp during a crash test. An airplane parked in the background. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams talks about the car. He speaks about the technology used in the vehicle. Steering wheel of the RSV car. People look at the car.

Date: 1979, March 27
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070455
A Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield, in United States, during World War II

A U.S. Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield in the United States, that appears to have some construction work taking place on it (dump truck in background) during World War 2. The P-40's landing gear takes a long time to retract after takeoff, with the right gear lingering down, well after the left has retracted. Aloft, the P-40 maneuvers around a slow-moving light aircraft camera plane, joining up near it and flying rapidly away, and then diving toward it.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070474
U.S. Army Air Force demonstrates Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk aircraft, during World War II

Curtiss military aircraft being demonstrated during World War 2. Large number of Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplanes seen in flights of three, each. They fire their machine guns (two nose-mounted and two in each wing). Next, about 15 or more are seen in loose formation. A group of U.S. Army officers, seated at a stand on the banks of a waterway, watch as a group of P-40s fly past, at low altitude. Small boats are seen in the water near pilings and a decrepit dock. A large, loose formation of P-40s flies past, in flights of three, stacked vertically. (At this point sound of the aircraft can be heard.) Two more large formations of P-40s fly past. Then individual P-40s are seen following one another at large intervals. They fly low over the camera site. Scene changes to P-40s flying over a Curtiss Aircraft factory building. Curtiss aircraft company workers stand outside the building to watch the show. some P-40s fly past low, in close formation. Six P-40s fly past at altitude in vertical stacked formation. Two flights of three, pass directly overhead. The P-40s in Two flights, separate and fly away individually, imitating fighter dog-fighting tactics. Large view of American flag, with series of P-40s flying past, behind it.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070477
A small airplane in flight drops off airship USS Akron over the west coast of the United States.

USS Akron in flight over the west coast of the United States. The dirigible in flight. 'US Navy' written on the dirigible. Aerial view of a target area. A small airplane inside the dirigible. Men work on the airplane. The airplane hooks onto a hook-on device. The airplane drops off the dirigible. Men watch.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070488
A cook roasts chicken and men peel onions and potatoes aboard USS Akron in flight over the west coast of the United States.

USS Akron dirigible airship in flight over the west coast of the United States. The control tower of USS Akron. U.S. Army soldiers at the controls of the dirigible. An officer stands nearby. Mail bags stacked aboard the dirigible. A cook roasts chicken in the galley. Stove and cooking utensils. Men peel onions and potatoes. Men seated at a table eat food.

Date: 1932
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070489