French aviation officers practice tracking moving targets through skeet shooting during World War 1. Assistants launch targets into the air and the shooters fire at them. Scene shifts to the officers firing machine guns from airplane-type gun ring installations. (WWI. WW1)
Crew members climb aboard a Caproni bomber parked on an airfield in France, during World War 1. One of them slides a slender bomb into a holder in front of the plane. Brief view from rear engine looking forward to crew in their seats. Crew placing bombs into holders. Right engine being started. The bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Views from cockpit of takeoff and in flight. View from the air of military airfield and barracks below. View from the bomber of a French Nieuport 17 approaching. (WWI; WW1)
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in United States. Various Soldiers march holding flags in their hands. Cameramen take photographs of the event. A large float from the Washington Star newspaper decorated "76"and "Birthday" written on it and a large eagle bird. United State Marine Corps honor guard and band pass by and salute at the Presidential reviewing stand..People sit on the chair and watch the event. Army, Navy, Air force, Marines, Coast guard units march in parade.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. Soldiers parade with band on the street in the assembly area. Buildings in the background. People stand. Decorated float on the street. Men pass with flags. Military units from army, navy, air force, marine and coast guards march on the street. Cars parked on the street. Girls march in uniforms. Girls in other uniform parade on the street.
Chronicling history of early flight. A German motorless glider early aircraft is launched from atop a hill and flies over bystanders on a field. Short history of the Wright Brothers flights at Kitty Hawk is given, showing planes, hangar, and living quarters for the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina during 1903 to 1908 period. Footage of successful flightby Wilbur Wright in Le Mans France on August 8, 1908. People watch from grandstand as plane flies. Newspaper headlines detail success in Le Mans. Front page of "The North American" is shown with headline "Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk; flies 2.17 Miles in 106 Seconds!"
Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande.
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