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Huge crowd gathers to see Amelia Earhart depart on round-the-world flight. Earhart and associates load airplane.

Large crowd watches from fenced area at U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, waiting to catch a glimpse of Amelia Earhart departing on her round-the-world flight. . Inside hanger number 3, Amelia Earhart Putnam, husband George Putnam, Fred Noonan, Paul Mantz, and Harry Manning, complete loading of the Lockheed Electra airplane, for the flight.

Location: Oakland California United States USA
Date: 1937, March 17
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063658
Two U.S. Army Air Corps pilots die in a plane crash during a blind flying exercise over part of Chicago Municipal Airport

Newsreel titled "Plane crash kills 2 officers making blind flying test." On 27 February, 1937, Two Army Air Corps Reserve pilots are killed in the crash of a North American BT-9A, 36-118, "3", of the Air Detachment, 6th USAAC Area. (Reportedly, the accident occurred as 2d Lt. John P. Spake, in the front cockpit, was practicing instrument flying under a hood, while being monitored by 2d Lt. Clyde H. Wood, Jr in the rear cockpit.) The remains of the aircraft are seen at the edge of the Chicago Municipal Airport. Many spectators surround the crash site. A closeup of mangled wreckage encompassing the two cockpits. Two bodies are covered by tarpaulins near the broken left wing. Fire rescue officers carry one to a waiting ambulance.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1937, February 27
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038365
A Flying Tiger Airline Boeing 707 is loaded with Red Ball USA crates at Travis Air Force Base in California

Forklifts loads supply crates onto pallets in a warehouse at the Travis Air Force Base in California. 'Red Ball USA' written on the crates. Man checks the crates. Pallets of supplies loaded into Flying Tiger Airline's Boeing 707.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1967, October 9
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029668
LZ-129 Hindenburg airship engulfed in flames crashes into ground at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.

Newsreel of June 28, 1962 showing event 25 years earlier: Hindenburg disaster on 6th May 1937. Traffic passes on road. LZ-129 Hindenburg airship approaches Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Ground crew awaits Hindenburg's landing. Mooring mast in the background. Hindenburg catches fire and fuel tank bursts out of hull. Hindenburg engulfed in flames crashes into ground. Men run toward burning Hindenburg. Huge clouds of smoke arise from burning Hindenburg.

Location: Lakehurst New Jersey USA
Date: 1937, May 6
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052200
First unpowered drop flight of X-15 aircraft, piloted by Scott Crossfield at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

U.S. Air Force X-15A aircraft first unpowered drop flight and landing in California, United States on June 8, 1959. United States Air Force Boeing NB-52A aircraft with X-15 under its wing, taxis and takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, California. American X-15 aircraft in captive-carry position, mated to pylon under wing of Boeing NB-52A aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Chase planes U.S. Air Force F-104A flies along NB-52A aircraft. X-15 releases from NB-52A aircraft in mid flight. Radar dish antenna records course of the flight. Pilot seated in the cockpit of F-104A aircraft. Technicians look at plotting boards and flight monitors. Pilot Albert Scott Crossfield converses with ground crew members. X-15 piloted by Crossfield lands at Rogers Dry Lake in California.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1959, June 8
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063965
"Operation Firestop" experiments in aerial firefighting. Various aircraft used in firefighting.

World War II scenes of German Stuka dive bombers in operation. U.S. B-25 bomber in flight, and views of firestorms from Allied incendiary bombing of Axis targets. Scenes of the "Operation Firestop" project in 1954-55, in California. U.S. Forest Service and other agencies cooperate in a one-year project headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. Aerial views of Camp Pendleton area, in Southern California. A modified Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber in flight discharges water from its torpedo bays. Men installing fabric water container into the bomb bay of the TBM. The aircraft seen in low level pass, dropping water contents onto field. Cropduster pilot Floyd Nolta, seen flying his Stearman biplane over California landscape, and then taxiing in to park, after landing. On the ground, we see how he modified his airplane to release water from a hopper in its bottom. On August 13, Vance Nolta flies the Stearman on multiple sorties, dropping water on a fire in the Mendecino Forest. Nolta filling his water tank from a hose at Willow Airport, and dropping water from the air, above the fire. View at Willow Airport, of 7 Stearman and N3N airplanes modified for aerial firefighting. Views of these aircraft dropping chemically treated water from the air. TBM aircraft equipped with 400 gallon tanks drop water from the air. PBY flying boat seen in flight. A B-26 bomber passing low and dropping chemically treated water. A Navy Mars flying boat passing overhead as it drops water from a 7000 gallon tank.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058692
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