The debut stunt act of 'The Incredible Romba' at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He gets into his 'rocket car' and the push car comes down a slide kept in an enclosure. The car somersaults in the air and falls on a bed at the base of the slide. A man comes running to the car. The audience applauds. The Incredible Rhomba stunt man emerges from the car unharmed. View as he stands smiling beside the slide.
Aviator Stanislaus Hausner and his aircraft disappear over the Atlantic Ocean during a trip to Poland from Floyd Bennett Field in New York, United States. Past events show men towing a Bellanca CH Pacemaker aircraft out of a hangar on Barren Island. Aviator Stanislaus Hausner poses with his wife Martha. The aircraft taxis and takes off from an airstrip. The aircraft gains altitude.
Canadian air cadets at Mitchel Field in Long Island, United States. The cadets standing at attention. Buildings in the background. Officers inspect the cadets. The cadets inspect U.S. pursuit airplanes. They stand near an aircraft. A man seated in the cockpit of an aircraft.
Launching of ships at Staten Island in New York, United States. A destroyer and a cruiser being launched. The ships get underway. Women stand holding bouquets.
Remains of a a cargo aircraft that crashed in flames during taxi for takeoff at Idlewild Airport in New York, United States. The wrecked aircraft on the tarmac with firefighters standing nearby. The plane had nearly crashed into the Terminal building, seen in the background, but had been slowed enough to stop when it struck the tail of a nearby empty passenger airplane.
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
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