A Pan American (Pan Am) Clipper on a test flight at Port Washington, New York. The aircraft pioneers a new route to Europe. United States airmen stand in front of the aircraft. Crew members board the Clipper. Interiors of the Pan American Clipper with the crew inside. Crew members at work. The aircraft taxis and takes off from water surface. The Clipper in flight above the city. New York City skyscrapers in the background.
Amelia Earhart and her crew take off from the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California, to begin their flight around the world. Views from another aircraft as their Lockheed Electra flies low over Western Span of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco, heading West toward the Pacific Ocean. Scene on the ground, several days earlier, Paul Mantz and Amelia Earhart Putnam converse, as he secures a dzuz fastener on the aircraft fuselage. Mechanic Bo McKneely helps Earhart step from the wing of the airplane. She talks with husband, George P. Putnam. Paul Mantz, talks with Earhart and George Putnam while Bo McKneely refuels the Lockheed Electra. In final scenes, ground crew pushes the Lockheed Electra into a Hangar at the Naval Air Station.
Preparations for Amelia Earhart's trip around the world in her Lockheed Electra airplane. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in flight, checking navigation equipment and procedures in the air. Aerial views from another aircraft of the Lockheed Electra over the Oakland Bridge and other landmarks. The aircraft is seen landing and taking off at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Oakland, California
Amelia Earhart takes off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland, California in her Lockheed Electra aircraft, to begin her round-the-world flight. The runway and ramp contain small puddles of water from a recent rain shower. Aerial views from another airplane of the Lockheed Electra as it flies over the Oakland area of California. View of Oakland Bay Bridge.(These were probably shot on March 13th during their checkout flight.) In separate scenes, prior to departure, on the ground, Amelia talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
Amelia Earhart Putnam with associates preparing for her round-the-world flight, at Oakland Naval Air Station, California. Her Lockheed Electra aircraft (tail number: NR 16020) taxis slowly in front of Navy hangar. Small puddles of rainwater on the ramp. Paul Mantz ducks down into cockpit of the parked airplane and then reappears again. Engines of the Lockheed Electra are started and it taxis under guidance of ground crewmen. Amelia Earhart Putnam standing in cockpit of her airplane talking with Paul Mantz, as he tightens dzuz fastener on an access panel in fuselage. Earhart, Mantz and George Putnam huddle beside the airplane.
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra parked, with engines running, on wet ramp in front of hangar at U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland California. In change of scene, Amelia Earhart climbs from cockpit of the parked airplane and, with helping hand, from Mechanic Bo McKneely, jumps from the wing to the ground. (McKneely is on top of the fuselage, refueling the airplane.) Earhart talks with her husband, George P. Putnam.
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