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Frank Lahm and Orville Wright prepare for a take off, take seats and take off in Wright flyer during a test at Fort Myer.

Orville Wright and U.S. Army aviator Frank Purdy Lahm, the first army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" at Fort Myer, Virginia. Preparations for the take off of the aircraft. Frank Purdy Lahm sits at the controls with Wright standing in the front and releasing the ropes. Lahm and Orville Wright take seats in the aircraft. Men standing beside a catapult in front of buildings. Good views of Fort Myer buildings of the era. They adjust the position of the catapult. The catapult as seen from the front of the aircraft. View of catapult from behind the aircraft. The Wright Flyer takes off. The aircraft in flight. It circles over a field and buildings. Headquarters building in the background. The aircraft in flight over the field. (This footage is a mix of July 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and September 1908 footage, from the rear taking off, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.)

Date: 1909, July 27
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070568
Funeral of U.S. Army General Jacob Devers, at Fort Myer in Virginia.

A group of men comes out of the Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer followed by U.S. Army pallbearers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment, carrying the coffin of U.S. Army General Jacob L Devers. Members of the funeral party stand on either side of the path, as the pallbearers carry the flag draped casket out of the chapel and place it on a horse drawn caisson carriage.

Date: 1979, October 19
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021997
Aerial bomb tests and antiaircraft firing tests at Fort Monroe, Virginia, testing ideas of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell

Brigadier General Billy Mitchell smiling, standing in field, wearing an overcoat. Glimpse of aviator in helmet and goggles, behind him. Members of Congressional Committee and U.S. Army and Navy officers in field to observe tests of antiaircraft fire efficacy. Martin MB2 biwing bomber parked in field behind them. Army officers, stand in front of a biwing bomber, holding ends of "sleeve target" to be used in gunfire test. Airborne scene of sleeve target being towed by airplane. Aerial bomb tests lead by General Mitchell. General with other officials. Army artillery batteries firing at the sleeve target. View of sleeve target. Battery of Army machine gunners firing at sleeve target. General Billy Mitchell with another officer, examining the sleeve target after the test, and smiling because only one bullet penetrated it. General Mitchell and another officer inspecting bombs to be used for demonstration. Dive bombers attack target of battleship outlined on the ground. Bombs bursting on target. Views aboard bombers, showing bombs falling from the aircraft and hitting targets below.

Date: 1921, September
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033218
Antiaircraft firing tests,fort Monroe, Hampton Virginia, United States. DH-4 bombers in flight. Antiaircraft batteries firing.

Flight of DH-4 biwing bombers aloft in loose formation. Group of observers behind battery of antiaircraft artillery firing at sleeve target towed by aircraft. shells bursting behind the sleeve target. Batteries of machine guns being fired at "toy" balloons. Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, with another officer, smiles as he points at the single bullet hole sustained by sleeve target after having been fired at by batteries of antiaircraft artillery and machine guns.

Date: 1921, September
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033219
Lieutenant Law and Igor Sikorsky talk about their experiences and experimental aircraft in flight in the United States.

Part of a series of films about the history of aviation in the United States.Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Frank P. Lahm is seen speaking about his aviation pioneering days, when Orville Wright taught him and Frederick E. Humphreys of Army Engineers (both Lieutenants at the time) how to fly the Wright Flyer airplane. Views of a Wright Flyer maneuvering in the air above Fort Myer, Virginia. Somewhat later, two are seen in flight at Fort Myer. An early Curtiss airplane.is maneuvered on the ground to face away from the camera. Russian, Igor Sikorsky in an early rear propeller airplane. Igor Sikorsky at a desk in a modern engineering office. Sketch of a helicopter on drawing board behind him. He talks about the early days of experimental flight in 1909 and 1910. View of Louis Bleriot sitting in the open cockpit of his airplane, and then of him flying overhead in his famous flight across the English Channel. Obeservers watching his progress through binoculars and a telescope. Sikorsky standing next to his first helicopter (which didn't fly).

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068447
United States cadets from West Point being trained to man 155 mm guns and antiaircraft guns at Fort Monroe.

U.S. cadets test defense guns at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Cadets from West Point fire 155 mm guns and antiaircraft rifles at a beach. Cadets load shells into guns. Guns being fired guns.

Date: 1935, August 19
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047817