Technicians and members in the laboratories and offices of WADC, Dayton, Ohio, United States. Aerial view of approach to Wright Air Development Center (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), includuing view of Wright Memorial on Wright Brothers Hill. Low altituide aerial view of Aero Medical Laboratory, wind tunnel area, static structural tent building and the main flight line area. Hand holding book entitled, "Wright Air Development Center" (WADC). Hands open book-on first page is: "Mission of WADC". Interior, laboratory research building at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), airmen push rack down test area and into vault. Exterior view in Cambridge Massachusetts of the MIT Great Dome and Building 10 seen from Killian Court, with text engraving seen on building frieze: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two members of the Institute walk down steps of Building 10. Two technicians working in office building. Supersonic propeller undergoing test on large test stand. Superimposed over this picture are the words: Research And Development. Supersonic propeller undergoing tests. Two technicians at control panel of the test stand. USAF B-50 Superfortress aircraft in flight. Engine starting on B-50 in flight-plane equipped with special deicing equipment. B-50 in flight showing special test and research instruments and operator.
Lt. Russell Maughan in the United States. Lt. Maughan gets into a cockpit and another man helps him. A man cranks a fuel pump by hand and others stand near it. A Curtiss PW-8 plane takes stop in Dayton, Ohio. A man notes on a paper and others stand near him. The plane taxis on a field. People stand at the back. The plane takes off for St. Joseph. Bystanders obscure the view of the take off.
Development of first airplane by Wright brothers in United States. Airplanes in formation. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright talk with each other. Drawing of first model of flying machine at Dayton Ohio. Improved successive models. The hanger and living quarters of Wright brothers. The plane Ville Wright takes off from Kill Devil hills in Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, on 03 December 1903. A Wright plane takes off with hanger and a balloon in background.
Sketch of 1909 aircraft that Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel. Progressive views of airplanes from earliest to formations of B-52 bombers in flight. Picture of Air Force Five Star General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Views of Wright Flyer being pulled into a field and readied and launched with Orville Wright at the controls. Two DeHavilland DH4 airplanes in formation as wing walker climbs from wing of one to wing of the other. (Wing walker wears emblem of black cat and number 13, on his shirt.) Drawing of Wright flyer airplane with various parts labeled by Lieutenant Arnold. Letter, dated 13, May, 1911, from 2nd Lieutenant Henry Arnold, of the 24th Infantry, to Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, reporting on his progress at the Wright flying school in Dayton, Ohio. First pilot's badge (wings) earned by Lieutenant Arnold. President Wilson at inauguration of airmail service, from Washington, DC.
Manufacturing of aircraft in United States World War I. Aircraft factories at Elizabeth, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and Dayton, Ohio. Aerial views of aircraft factory, railway siding, warehouses and lumber yard. Crowd of men war production workers go to work at one of the plants and factory workers at work. Men sit around small round tables as they eat in a plant cafeteria. Many of them appear to be production plant executives and at least one U.S. Navy sailor in uniform. African American waiters seen in the dining area.
U.S. Army Air Service test pilot 1st Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan's dawn to dusk flight across the United States on June 23rd, 1924. Lt. Maughan in the cockpit of a Curtiiss P-1 Hawk airplane. He takes off from Mitchel Field in New York at dawn. The airplane in flight over Manhattan, New York City showing the East River with Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges. The Curtiiss P-1 Hawk in flight over the Wall Street district, the Battery Park and the Hudson River. The aircraft arrives at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. Lt Maughan in the aircraft. A ground-gasoline truck and a fire truck near the airplane as it is refueled with the engine running. He climbs out of the cockpit briefly to allow a boy to look inside. Maughan takes off from McCook field. He is seen by his Curtiss P-1 Hawk, after arriving at Crissy Field in the Presidio, San Francisco, California.
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