ITwo officers confer in front of a group of French aviators lined up before a hangar in France during World War 1. Scene shifts to the pilots being given last moment briefing and then running to their respective voisin 3 airplanes parked in a line on grass field. (WWI. WW1)
Flight of historic early airplanes in France during World War 1.. Nieuport 10 airplanes lined up at the airbase. Airmen standing near the Nieuport planes. Pilots in the cockpits of the planes. A Voisin airplane taking off. An airplane buzzes a line of parked planes and then flies low, directly at the camera. An aircraft does a barrel roll aerobatic maneuver in the sky. (WWI; WW1)
During World War 1, a French naval aviator climbs into the hull of a Franco-British Aviation Type H flying boat, marked F.B.A. #8. Another crew member is already aboard and the engine is running. They taxi out in the water and take off in the aircraft. As they taxi for takeoff, a Breguet 14H float plane lands in background. Aerial views from the airborne F.B.A. Type H, showing boats in the water below. Next are seen two voisin 3 float planes taxiing slowly in water. A Viosin 3 float plane taxis rapidly up onto a wooden ramp. (WWI. WW1)
French soldiers unroll the fabric of an observation balloon in a clearing in a wood, during World War 1. They stretch it out flat in all directions. Scene shifts to a soldier sitting in a depot surrounded by stacks of compressed gas cylinders. He connects a cylinder to a fabric duct directing gas to the balloon. Soldiers monitor and adjust the balloon fabric as it expands. The next scene shows many soldiers surrounding the balloon as it expands to almost full size. They hold tether lines to keep the balloon from escaping, as they walk it to a launching location. Next sequence shows the balloon rising with observers in two separate gondolas suspended below the gas bag. View from one of the gondolas, looking toward the ground. (WWI. WW1)
French troops in trenches on lookout for enemy aircraft. They fire an elevated machine gun (Mitrailleuse) mounted on a fixed pedestal, at an ememy airplane. View of an antiaircraft machine gun hidden in a deep hole. Observation balloon being lowered to a landing site with assistance of many French troops on the ground. Basket carrying observers is seen. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Crew members climb aboard a Caproni bomber parked on an airfield in France, during World War 1. One of them slides a slender bomb into a holder in front of the plane. Brief view from rear engine looking forward to crew in their seats. Crew placing bombs into holders. Right engine being started. The bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Views from cockpit of takeoff and in flight. View from the air of military airfield and barracks below. View from the bomber of a French Nieuport 17 approaching. (WWI; WW1)
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