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The Wright brothers and early models of airplanes developed and flown by them in the United States.

Depicts contribution of Wright brothers in development of airplanes. Old French bi-planes fly in parallel. Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers discuss with other man. Glider dragged of hill flies steadily. Wilbur attaches wheel beneath wing. First heavier than air plane takes off at Kitty hawk North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Headlines of news paper about the event. Wilbur Wright prepares to fly under French Government subsidy, at La Mans in France. Orville flies with a passenger in Fort Myers, Virginia for an Army acceptance demonstration in July 1909. Men on ground watch the sustained flight of the plane. Bi plane flies close to ground in an open field. Military officials near the hanger of the plane. Wright brothers inspect catapult rails. The plane towed out and put on catapult. Two men rotate propeller to start the plane. Men pull weight to catapult the plane. Wright flyer climbs and plane takes off.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1909
Duration: 7 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036849
Beginnings of successful powered heavier-than-air flight. Wright Brothers flights in U.S. and Europe. General Hap Arnold

History of aviation. A balloon in flight. Historic glider such as that which interested U.S. War Department as early as 1898. In 1903, a crew of men moving a Wright Flyer into position. Two men turn over propellers on a Wright Flyer, and the engine starts. View of the Wright-designed water-cooled engine. View of Orville Wright. The famous first powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright at controls. Animation shows that 120 foot flight juxtaposed against a B-36 wing. Wilbur Wright in Europe, in 1908, gesturing as he converses with interested parties. A gallery of spectators including the President of France, King of England, King of Spain, and King of Italy. Wilbur Wright places a wheel under the right wing of a Wright Flyer and lashes it to the strut. A team of horses pulls the plane across the field. Men maneuver the plane onto a monorail on the ground. Men pull on a heavy rope to raise a weight in a tower, for a catapult. Two men spin the propellers and the Wright Brothers airplane motor starts. Wilbur Wright and his passenger, a French journalist, board the plane. The catapult weight drops, launching the aircraft which flies low over the field. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, on a podium. War department issues specifications for a heavier-than-air craft. Reenactment of a Wright brother signing a bid contract. A Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, as the Wrights meet the Army specifications and sell, U.S. Army airplane number 1, to the War Department, in 1908. Gold Aviator wings being pinned on the uniform of a U.S. Army pilot. Photograph of Army Air Forces Chief, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, wearing his original aviator wings on his service uniform. A Glenn Curtis training airplane starting up and taking off. View of a DH-4 airplane and a Wright Flyer taking off together.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1908
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051723
African student shopping with host and friends in North Carolina

An African student from Ghana walks with her American sponsor on the street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. African student buys a Mamas and the Papas album at The Record Bar store, possibly at the Henderson St location. Close up of record in the shop, The Frivolous Five and Brahms (Conducted by Antal Dorati). View through shop window at African student on sidewalk with her American host, likely on E Franklin St. They enter a dress store. African student browses racks of dresses. A salesgirl helping the African woman. African students and friends view prints for sale on the street. An illustration depicting a bull. Ghanaian student talks to a fellow African student at the Old Well of the University of North Carolina (E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA).

Location: Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080254
U.S. Paratroopers jump from aircraft and build ice shelters in Greenland during "Exercise Arctic Night."

U.S. paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division participate in joint Army-Air Force "Operation Arctic Night."conducted from 2-13-1956 to 3-14-1956, in Greenland. With ambient temperatures of minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Paratroopers in Arctic parkas, with their parachutes underneath, are so burdened that they waddle like penguins as they board waiting C-124 aircraft, at Thule Air Force Base, Greenland. Sign erected in snow reads: 'North Pole, 802 Miles, Fort Bragg, N.C. Home of 82nd Airborne 3500 Miles'. Troops seated inside C-124 aircraft. A flight of three large Douglas C-124C Globemaster aircraft, in formation, carries the entire group of 700 paratroopers, who make a mass jump from the aircraft to land on the Greenland icecap. Parachutes billowing as troopers land on the ice. They assist one another as they land. The paratroopers dig snow shelters and build shelters with ice blocks on the icecap.

Location: Thule Greenland
Date: 1956, March
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046951
President John F Kennedy with Shah of Iran, see U.S. sea power in United States.

President John F Kennedy arrives on aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in United States. Officers salute President. President's watches plane takes off and carrier missile launch. Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi joins President Kennedy observing military demonstrations from Onslow Beach in North Carolina. Fleet of ships, landing crafts and helicopters fly. U.S. Marines landing on beach.

Location: Onslow Beach North Carolina USA
Date: 1962, April 16
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035411
A weird 25 feet high boat constructed by beachcombers in Fort Bragg, California.

Weird boat made of junk ready for ocean trip-maybe'. A twenty five feet high and four ton heavy boat made by beachcombers in Fort Bragg, California. A beachcomber climbs onto the boat made by using fifteen thousand rivets picked up from city dump. A propeller on the boat is also seen. Beachcombers hope to sail to Germany in the boat, some day.

Location: Fort Bragg California USA
Date: 1936, July 27
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037659
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