American aviator Howard Hughes sets a record by completing a flight around the world in just 91 hours. He is interviewed in New York after setting the record. His aircraft in flight over the city.
Hairstyle adaptions being created by Joseph at the Helena Rubinstein salon, New York. Joseph giving hair style to women in beauty parlor. Women seated and displaying push-up hairstyles.
A single engine seaplane (or flying boat), the Spencer-Larsen SL-12 C amphibian aircraft, NX-20621, lands on water at Port Washington in New York, United States. It reaches the shore and moves toward the hangar. Motor in the hull of the plane is connected by special gears to a propeller above the plane. Landing gear of plane has a unique design. Inventor Percival "Spence" Spencer, wearing a hat, is seen beside the parked aircraft.
The 3rd International Motor Sports Show in New York. The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing is featured at the show. Unusual features and gadgets seen, such as removable steering wheel on the Mercedes 300SL. An Alfa-Romeo B.A.T. is displayed, with a price of 25,000 USD. The pop out headlights of the B.A.T. are demonstrated. The Hudson Italia is displayed. The Packard Panther is shown on a turntable. A small car with three headlights is shown. A woman seated in a sports car waves.
U.S. Army Air Force planes are transferred from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to New Guinea during World War II. B-24 Liberator bomber being refueled in Guadalcanal. Formation of B-24s in flight over sea en route to New Guinea.
The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).
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