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Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and their early gliders.

Early multiengine aircraft flying in formation. Wilbur Wright talks with two Frenchmen at Le Mans, France, in 1908. Orville Wright is seen. Various views of the Wright Brothers' glider experiments.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027431
Wilbur Wright is seen adjusting a transporter wheel on his airplane.

Wilbur Wright adjusts a transportation wheel to his airplane. Airplane on the field. Man on horse-cart. Other men stand on the field. House in the background.

Date: 1908
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027433
The Wright flyer engine is started by two men.

Wright flyer aircraft of the Wright Brothers is started by two men pulling on the propellers.

Date: 1908
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027434
Scenes from 1904, preparing to launch a Wright airplane using a falling weight

Wright brothers and other men inspect launching rail on the field. A Wright Flyer airplane is maneuvered onto the rail. Men raise a weight up a tower in preparation for catapulting the airplane.

Date: 1904
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027435
Retired veteran aviators share Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating Air Force record-setting flights in 1929 and 1963.

A large group of retired Air Force officers are seen seated at a number of tables during a luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 endurance record setting flight of the Fokker C-2A aircraft named "Question Mark." The event is in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeup of General Carl Spaatz, addressing the group from a podium. Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are listening, along with Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who,in October 1963, was aircraft commander on the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Lieutenant General Ira Eaker addresses the group next. Closeup of him and of General Spaatz tilting his head to hear. The audience applauding. Sergeant Roy Hooe then addresses the group. The clip ends as the luncheon ends and the participants socialize.

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027445
Keystone K-78 "Patrician" airplane carries 24 passengers in New York.

"Patrician" passenger airplane carries 24 passengers in New York. The all metal Keystone K-78 monoplane parked at Mitchel field. Men gather near the airplane. It flies in the sky. Aerial views of the aircraft in flight. Fascinating aerial views of New York City skyscrapers from relatively low aerial height, including the Woolworth Building and a clock tower building, as seen through the windows of the Keystone aircraft.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027451