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An airplane with body like a fish stands on an airbase in Dayton, Ohio.

An airplane with a fish-like body at an airbase in Dayton, Ohio. The aircraft, a X-101, sometimes called a "Dayton Overmount" starts to taxi. It has tandem mounted engines (two 525hp Wright R-1750 Cyclone tractor-pushers in tandem) and could carry 10 passengers. Pilot comes out of the cockpit through stairs. Men work on the engine of the plane. Other men view the plane. The plane takes off and demonstrates successful flight.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027467
Blind, deaf, disabled and old American workers assisting in the war production effort in Dayton, Ohio, during World War II

Disabled and elderly war production workers contributing to the labor force during World War 2, in Dayton Ohio. Opening scene shows a woman supervisor observing deaf mute women in a lens factory, cleaning segments of bifocal lenses. Closeup of supervisor and one worker communicating by American sign language. A blind man in a shop, using a snap gauge to check finished parts for conformity. A man on crutches taking his place on a war production line. Older men in the shipping department of a factory, packaging and sealing boxes labeled, "Delicate instruments. Handle with care." and placing them on a dolly. Women can be seen at work in another part of the plant. Members of the Dayton Junior Association of Commerce, lined up applying for part-time employment of 4 hours a day, to help the war effort. Students leaving a High School building. (Narrator states schedules were re-arranged for students who would take part-time jobs.)

Date: 1943
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029531
Orville Wright and others commemorate the day of first flight by Wright brothers in Dayton, Ohio.

Orville Wright and others commemorate the day of first aircraft flight by Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, twenty-two years ago. Orville Wright places a wreath at Wilbur Wright's grave at the Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum (2 Glencoe Ave, Dayton, OH 45410) in Dayton, Ohio.

Date: 1935, December 18
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038431
Dedication of Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, in 1928.

In 1926, Frederick Patterson, in cab of a Steam shovel, breaks ground for the construction of Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Horses pull wagons past the steam shovel. Dedication of Wright Field at Dayton in 1928. Flag raising ceremony shows Mr Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises the flag upon the pole. In addition to Orville Wright, the event was attended by Secretary of War, Davis; Judge (and Baseball Commissioner) Kenesaw Landis; Assistant Secretary, F. Trubee Davison; Air Corps Chief General Patrick, and others. Artillery salute is fired at the ceremony. Squdrons of airplanes fly overhead.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051733
U.S. Army Air Services MB-2s take off at Wilbur Wright airfield during a maneuver in Dayton, Ohio.

U.S. Army Air Services maneuvers of First Provisional Air Brigade at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton , Ohio. U.S. Army Air Services MB-2s take off from the Wilbur Wright airfield to bomb the bridges across River Ohio in Cincinnati. Brigadier General James Fechet on the flight line. He takes his position ion the rear cockpit of O-1 and leaves the aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off. Aircraft including MB-2s in flight.

Date: 1926
Duration: 4 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059518
Curtiss Oriole airplane at Mc Cook field in Dayton, Ohio.

Curtiss Oriole airplane at Mc Cook field in Dayton, Ohio. Pilot Harry Block, Mrs. S.E.J. Cox and her son come out of the airplane. Hangar nearby the plane. Other men stand near the plane. The lady looks at a paper. They get into the plane.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027461