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United States Army Air Service being built up before America's entry into World War I

While World War 1 was already underway in Europe, before the United States Air Service began to build up. Two U.S. DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft taking off. A formation of DH-4s in flight. A DH-4 upside down on the ground with soldiers all around it, including one sitting on a rock. Airplanes attacking a barrage balloon aloft, which burns and plummets to earth trailing dark black smoke. A candidate United States pilot undergoing physical testing. He is placed in a spinning chair and spun at high speed. Another pilot candidate performs a visual test with an array of lights on a panel being lit. Prospective Army pilots in U.S. Army uniforms marching and on a flight line with JN-4 Jenny training aircraft. Cadet turns propeller of a Curtiss JN-4 training airplane and the engine starts. Formation of DH-4 aircraft in flight. Lumberjacks in American northwest area of Oregon or Washington state felling a giant spruce tree after cutting it with a two man saw in the Cascade mountain forests. Massive Logs being transported by railroad to logging mills for eventual use in airplane factories. Men and many women war production workers busy working at an American airplane fabricating plant or factory during World War 1.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033855
Manufacture of the famed Liberty engine and U.S. Army Air Service in World War I

The Liberty L-12 engine. Scenes of its manufacture in American war plants. U.S. Air Service crews training in DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft. An airplane falling and crashed, with wreckage seen on ground. Head of the U.S. Army Air Service, General Patrick, and General Billy Mitchell, presenting medals to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and other fliers of the U.S. Army 94th Aero Squadron, in France, during World War 1.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033856
U.S. Army's 'Round the World Flight in 1924, using Douglas World Cruiser aircraft

Documentary about the U.S. Army's flight around the world in 1924, employing four Douglas World Cruiser aircraft. A flag of United States. Crowds gather around around. the four Douglas World Cruisers, named Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle, as they prepare to depart from Seattle, Washington, on their expedition. One of the aircraft taking off. All the aircraft in flight over Seattle Washington. Major Frederick F. Martin Commander of the flight. An animated map shows the aerial expedition's route and locations of various accidents and incidents that beset them along the way. View of one Douglas World Cruiser in flight, equipped with floats. The expedition was completed by the Cruiser,Chicago, crewed by pilot, Lt. Lowell Smith and Lt. Leslie Arnold; and by the New Orleans, crewed by pilot, Lt. Erik Nelson and Lt. Jack Harding, who are seen being congratulated by expedition Commander, Major Frederick F. Martin upon their completion of the mission in Seattle, on September 28, 1924.

Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033858
U.S. Army Air Service pilots Jimmy Doolittle and Cyrus Bettis and their Curtiss R3C racing airplanes

Views of U.S. Army Air Service Lieutenant James Doolittle, winner of the Schneider Cup Race, and of his Curtiss R3C-2 airplane equipped with floats. Brief view of Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis, climbing out of his R3C racing airplane, after winning the Pulitzer Trophy.

Date: 1925
Duration: 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033859
The start and the finish of the U.S. Army Air Service Pan American Goodwill tour in 1926-1927

Glimpses of airplanes and crews that made the Pan American Goodwill flight that covered 22,000 miles to 21 Central and South American nations, in 1926. Aerial view of hangars and runway at kelly Air Base, Texas, as one of the five Loening OA-1 Amphibious aircraft takes off from the runway on Dec. 21, 1926.The five aircraft seen in flight over a city, are: The New York, with crew: Maj. Herbert Dargue and Lt. Ennis Whitehead; The San Antonio with crew: Capt. Arthur McDaniel and Lt. Charles Robinson; The San Francisco with crew: Capt. Ira Eaker and Lt. Muir Fairchild; The Detroit, with crew: Capt. Clinton Woolsey and Lt. John Benton; and The St. Louis, with crew: Lt. Bernard Thompson and Lt. Leonard Weddington. President Coolidge presenting the pilots with with citations for the Distinguished Flying Cross at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1927, at the opening of the Pan American Air Commission Conference.

Date: 1926
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033860
Pilot demonstrates loop, barrel roll, double roll, tail spin, and inverted flight, in a Douglas Model O-2C airplane

U.S. Army Air Corps douglas Model O-2C biplane (number 26-410) taxis and takes off (possibly piloted by Army Captain J.R. Schumaker). The pilot demonstrates several aerobatic maneuvers, including loop, barrel roll, double roll, tail spin, and inverted flight.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033870