XB-36 first flight on August 8, 1946, at Fort Worth, Texas, with Convair Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green, at the controls. The XB-36 flying over airfield, with landing gear extended. Views from side and below. Views from above, from the side, from below and from the rear, as it flies some distance from the field, with gear still extended. XB-36 on final approach crossing a river, and touching down on first part of runway as it lands.
U.S. soldiers in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. soldiers pickup meals at a mess tent and stand outside at tables to eat. A laundry for the soldiers shows two ingenious clothes washing machines made of 55 gallon drums and plungers, powered by rotatating wind -driven propellers. Laundry is drying on lines stretched out in background. Soldiers also scrub clothes on tilted tables. A tent area in the background.
U.S. soldiers in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. The soldiers taking shower. A tent area in the background. The shower is constructed of iron pipe with individual overhead chain pulls to release water. It is surrounded by a waist-high enclosure.
A U.S. Army Air Force ( USAAF ) B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight over Japan soon after World War II. Aerial view of the B-29 aircraft in flight. Mountainous terrain below.
View from nose canopy of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber, as it taxis behind another at Isley Field, Saipan, during World War 2. Next, the B-29 is on the active runway, accelerating for takeoff.
Types of airplanes in the United States prior to 1917. Orville Wright takes off, flies a short distance and lands in an early airplane. The Wright airplane takes off accompanied by a De Havilland airplane. An early blimp in flight.
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