Germany conducts Junkers Ju-52 flight and static tests (named as a “secret commando operation” from the German title card) in Peenemünde, Germany during World War II. German subtitles. Junkers 52 aircraft taxiing over open field in the Peenemünde-West test site. The transport plane towing a high-wing glider. The camera follows the Junkers 52 and the glider as the two aircraft take off.
Two Hitler Youth teenagers and a boy talk at a campsite in Chieming, Bavaria, Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth boys carrying a wooden makeshift ladder in the foreground. A younger Hitler Youth boy greets the group with a Nazi Salute and delivers a letter. Two Hitler Youth teenagers, possibly group leaders, read the letter and they shake hands. Hitler Youth teenagers and children begin to march. View of the Hitler Youth camp with tents. An aircraft flies over the camp. Boys bringing firewood to a camp fire area. A boy climbs down from straw wall into an enclosure where "captured" Hitler Youth boys from another group are kept. Two Hitler Youth boys watch a flying aircraft. More Hitler Youth boys watch and point at the aircraft. Aerial view of Hitler Youth camp and Chiemsee lake as seem from a low flying aircraft. Hitler Youth boys watching the aircraft while sitting behind enclosure. Hitler Youth boys, wearing swimming suits, sit on small boats and floating logs in lake Chiemsee. A boy viewing the aircraft falls from floating log. Boys notice the flying aircraft. The small glider aircraft lands in grassy field. Hitler Youth boys from the lake run to meet the pilot of the glider, a Hitler Youth teen leader, who emerges from the aircraft.
A United States Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain and a glider take off from an airfield in England during World War II. Paratroopers with blackened face paint help each other adjust their packs before boarding a C-47 transport plane. Two men on plane help paratroopers climb up and board the plane. Some paratroopers help another with a rope attached to a sack board the plane. The paratroopers load supplies into the C-47 and glider. A paratrooper climbs up to the plane by himself. A paratrooper puts on his helmet on board the aircraft. A paratrooper looks out from the plane door.
The Allied invasion fleet on a beachhead in Normandy as seen from a glider during the D-Day landings in World War II. A pilot talks through a radio. United States gliders on the ground are seen, some of the planes are partly demolished after landing.
Photograph of the Wright Flyer at a museum in Detroit, Michigan. Wilbur Wright flies a glider. Various photographs of the Wright Flyer during flight and preparing to land.
Depicts contribution of Wright brothers in development of airplanes. Old French bi-planes fly in parallel. Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers discuss with other man. Glider dragged of hill flies steadily. Wilbur attaches wheel beneath wing. First heavier than air plane takes off at Kitty hawk North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Headlines of news paper about the event. Wilbur Wright prepares to fly under French Government subsidy, at La Mans in France. Orville flies with a passenger in Fort Myers, Virginia for an Army acceptance demonstration in July 1909. Men on ground watch the sustained flight of the plane. Bi plane flies close to ground in an open field. Military officials near the hanger of the plane. Wright brothers inspect catapult rails. The plane towed out and put on catapult. Two men rotate propeller to start the plane. Men pull weight to catapult the plane. Wright flyer climbs and plane takes off.
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