View from the U.S. Navy Zeppelin, USS Akron (ZRS-4) as Sailor Charles (Bud) Cowart secures his position, suspended on a cable from the airship, 2000 feet above the ground following a cable ring failure that left three sailors dangling beneath the Akron, at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California.(The other two fell to their deaths.) Large group of sailors stand on ground below, watching. Crew of the Akron reel in the cable carrying Cowart and pull him aboard. View of Cowart, inside the Akron, calmly speaking of his experience.
Experiments conducted at March Field, California. Comparative take-offs of Ercoupe and Porterfield airplanes showing effect of auxiliary jet thrust on Ercoupe.Both airplanes take off at the same time and exhibit similar performance. Then, the Ercoupe is equipped with an auxiliary jet booster and both airplanes take off again. The Ercoupe shows dramatically superior takeoff performance.
Cattle herding at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037, United States) in Los Angeles, California. Spectators seated in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Cattle riders perform parade in the Coliseum stadium. After the parade a bronco comes out from the chute and the rider rides it. Spectators applaud. A cowboy rides a cow. The cow pushes a drum.
A parade during a Shriner convention in Los Angeles, California. Shriners march in uniform. Shriners dressed in elaborate Arab attire ride elephants. A parade float with the Shriner symbol and the words “Welcome Al Malaikah," for the Al Malaikah Shriners of Los Angeles. Edgar Bergen with his ventriloquist dummy partner, Charlie McCarthy. Edgar Bergen puts a Shriner’s fez on Charlie McCarthy's head. Parade float from Universal Studios passes by. A Marie Antoinette-inspired float passes by. A float with Air Corps biplane airplane replica in parade float, complete with spinning propeller. A woman wearing a ballgown waves from elaborate parade float.
Hot air balloon race disaster in Catalina Island, California. Five hot air balloons in Catalina Island. Participants use gas tanks and flames to inflate the hot air balloons. A 42-year old woman, Barbara Ruth Keith, puts on her life vest and helmet before the race. Barbara Keith boards her hot air balloon and tucks her toy mascot, a stuffed toy dog, into the top of her hot air propane tank. Hot air balloon contestant Barbara Keith waves at spectators upon her ascent. POV from balloon of spectators on ground as it ascends. Catalina Island. Swiss-born American balloonist, Donald Louis Piccard (also known as Don Piccard), ignites his heater and leaves the ground aboard balloon. Distant shot of balloon over ocean.
Atlas missile malfunction after launching at Vandenberg Air Force Base California. A missile rocket exhaust plume can be seen gradually descend from the sky.
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