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Airplane flight endurance record set by U.S. Army Air Service Fokker trimotor aircraft using inflight refueling
The U.S. Army Air Service modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A, named the 'Question Mark,' taxis and takes off. Refueling operation between the Question Mark and a Douglas C-1 aircraft. Question Mark in flight over the coast of California. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1refueling plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above the Question Mark. Crew member can be seen disconnecting the 3 inch fuel hose and throwing it off the Question Mark. After being aloft continuously for 6 days, the Question Mark landed at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929. Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Captain Ira C. Eaker and Major Carl A. Spatz, stand beside their airplane. (Spatz later changed spelling of his name to Spaatz.)
The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America
Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.
Sailors embrace and kiss their girl friends on pier and board the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in San Francisco bay.
USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) leaves the Naval Air Station Alameda in San Francisco bay. Large crowd on the pier near the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43). People look toward the ship. Crowds on the pier next to the USS Coral Sea. Man looks down on the pier. Aircraft parked forward on the flight deck. Large crowd gathered around the after brow. A young sailor and his girl friend. The girl has her arms around the sailor's neck. Other people in the general vicinity. Two sailors with girl friends on the pier. Chief petty officer and his wife standing on the pier. Chief petty officer has his arm around his wife and kisses her. Three sailors and their girl friends sitting on the edge of pier with their backs to the ship. Sailors kiss their girl friends during their last few moments prior to ship's departure for far Pacific. Large crowds on the pier. Guests depart the ship. Sailor carry his infant and with his wife walk alongside. Sailor and his wife embracing on the pier. Personnel board the ship. Dependents are look on. A few sailors are still on the pier. Guests depart from ship over the brow. Large crowd, some around the after brow. Sailor embraces his wife. Large crowd assembled on the pier at the after brow. Mobile crane ready to remove the brows. Mobile crane picks up after brow for removal. Some dependents seen.
A football match between California Golden Bears and University of Southern California Trojans
A football match between California Golden Bears and University of Southern California (U.S.C.) Trojans in Los Angeles. Players at the line of scrimmage. A huge crowd of 78,000 watches the match from the spectator area. The crowd cheers the players. California Golden Bears batters the U.S.C. Trojans.
Motorcyclists racing on a sandy course on Stinson Beach during an annual motorcycle race in California, United States.
The annual contest of motorcycle race at Stinson Beach, California, United States. A man flags off a motorcycle race on the Stinson Beach in California. The motorcyclists begin the annual contest of motorcycle race on the beach. The racers wearing goggles ride on a sandy course on the beach. The motorcyclists on the motorcycles racing in high speed.
Retired Officers' Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the 1929 record endurance flight of the Fokker C-2 Question Mark.
Film opens showing a display case in the Bolling Air Force Base Officer's Club, containing a model of the Atlantic-Fokker C-2A aircraft flown by pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps, in January, 1929 when they set an endurance record of more than 150 hours sustained flight. Below it is a Wright J-5 Whirlwind R-790 engine that powered the flight. Next a large poster is shown commemorating the 35th anniversary of the feat (1929 to 1964). It contains photos of highlights from that event. Next, the retired officers pass the display of model and engine as they descend stairs and enter dining room. Most are in civilian clothes. But several attendees are active duty officers in uniform. Major Sidney Kubesch, pilot on record-breaking B-58 flight from Tokyo-to-London, pauses to stand and look at the display case. General Nathan Twining; General Ira Eaker seen briefly at the display case. At end of clip, General Carl Spaatz stands alone, looking at the display.
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