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Aviator Stanislaus Hausner poses with her wife Martha at Barren Island in the United States before an air tragedy.

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.

Date: 1932, June 6
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070134
Canadian air cadets inspect American pursuit airplanes at Mitchel Field in Long Island, United States.

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.

Date: 1941, December 22
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077055
A U.S. Navy destroyer and a cruiser are launched at Staten Island, New York, United States in World War 2.

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.

Date: 1941, December 22
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077059
Firefighters extinguish blaze near wrecked airplane after it crashed at Idlewild Airport in New York, United States.

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.

Date: 1958, November
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077062
George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

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. )

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
Flight achievements of 1933 - Wiley Post completing solo journey around the world and Roscoe Turner speed record coast-to-coast

American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933, July 22
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077066