Workers at Vultee Plant assemble various parts of Vultee BT-13 planes in Downey CA. Assembly of wings can be seen. Workers work at main frame of plane and attach it to motored rotor blades. A completed BT-13 exits the assembly line out in open for testing.June 1941.
Miss Smaranda Braescu poses near an airplane. She enters the plane and is shown wearing an oxygen mask along with the pilot. The plane takes off from the airfield. Miss Braescu makes a jump from the plane at an altitude of 24,000 feet. She opens her parachute and successfully lands on the airfield. Two officials help her unfasten the parachute harness and shake her hand.
Invention of egg breaker and separator machine. Eggs run through a jig-saw, pulled through a vacuum in the factory. Eggs then pumped into a reservoir. Shells are discarded followed by diversification of yolk and egg-white into different compartments.
A man sitting near a large billboard saying: 'Personal guide to Movie Stars homes'. Views of the exterior of a building with 6-7 names on it, a car parked outside the building.
Lieutenant W C Kennedy of Rockwell Aviation Field inspecting an English Spad at De Mille Field in Hollywood on Air Memorial Day. He notes a "Catnip" wild cat symbol on the plane. Captain T. Wilson, aerial gunnery instructor, is also shown inspecting an S.E.5 airplane. Airplanes seen with elaborate painted decorations. A plane takes off from De Mille Field in Hollywood.
Shows mechanical assembly line at Vultee Plant for production of warplanes in World War 2. Views of workers working at the Plant. Aircraft parts are conveyed through sites at which operations are performed in mechanized assembly line.
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