Visiting delegates from the Second Pan American Highway Congress travel in cars and inspect rural road work in Argentina. Workers construct the highway between Moron and Lujan in Argentina. Cluster of houses in Cordoba. A vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing. Cars and horse carts along the road from Cordoba to Alta Gracia.
Sierras Tourist Hotel and golf course at Alta Gracia, Argentina. Country houses at Villa Allende. A large rock crushing plant on the Villa Allende-Cordoba road at Unquilla. Narrow stretch of road from Cordoba to Santa Fe. Tourists get down from ferry across the Parana River between Sante Fe and Parana. Monument of General Urquiza in Parana.
Crowd in stands, for the 1929 Cleveland Air Races, watch as formations of U.S. Army airplanes put on a show for them. Charles A. Lindbergh, seated in the stands, looks through binoculars. Army planes spell out their initials in formation. Various flying formations of Army airplanes. A flight of three Army biplanes performs a loop in formation.
Mid air refueling experiments in January, 1929. A U.S. Army Air Service Douglas C-1 tanker plane, with hose trailing below it, flies above a modified Atlantic-Fokker C-2A named "Question Mark." The hose is let down to the Question Mark, where a crew member seizes it and makes a connection for fuel transfer. After transfer of fuel is complete, the crew member throws the fuel line off and it is retrieved by the tanker plane. The Question Mark lands at Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California on January 7, 1929, and taxiis in to park. The crew members, including Major Carl A. Spaatz, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Lieutenant Harry A. Halverson, Lieutenant Elwood R.(Pete) Quesada, and Staff Sergeant Roy W. Hooe, all exit the airplane and gather under the wing with well wishers. The five crew members pose for photographs beside their airplane, the "Question Mark." Ground crew tows the aircraft with a tractor.
Vittorio Campolo (sometimes Victorio Campolo or Vitorio Campolo), an Argentine boxer, runs on a treadmill in New York City. Two men take measurements of Campolo. They walk under his outstretched arms. Campolo practices on a boxing dummy wearing a shirt "Everlast Boxing Dummy". Campolo eats spaghetti noodles while dressed in a suit.
General Carl Spaatz, Colonel Harry Halverson, and General Ira Eaker, seat themselves on a couch in the Officer's Club at Bolling Air Force Base, during a gathering of retired Air Force officers celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 record-setting endurance flight by Air Force crews, of the Fokker C-2A airplane named "question mark." Closeup of them conversing. Closeup of aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who flew on the Question Mark. Major General Brooke Allen (Commander of Headquarters Command at Bolling AFB) holds a model of the "Question Mark" and discusses it with the others. View of the 5 men seated around a cocktail table discussing the 1929 endurance flight.
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