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Technicians prepare German V2-Rocket for launch at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Scenes of personnel and technicians working on German V2-Rockets. Army personnel walking about. Rocket on the launch pad (launch tower). Men fuse rocket. Final checks are made before launching.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029069
A German V2-Rocket is launched at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Final checks are made before the launch of German V2-Rocket at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Jeeps loaded with men are driven to side of a hill to await the launching of rocket. Rocket is launched. A trail of white smoke is emitted as the rocket leaves the ground. A cub plane takes off a runway and is airborne.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029070
Cabot airmail device tested at Mitchel Field as the aircraft flies overhead in New York, United States.

The Cabot device for snatching an airmail pouch without landing, is tested at Mitchel Field in New York, United States. Pilot Roger Wolfe Kahn at Mitchel Field, New York. Aircraft taxis and takes off. New Cabot device for postal air-mail tested. A huge container on the field with a sign on it that reads 'Cabot'. The aircraft trailing a line with hook, flies over a line stretched between two poles and snatches an air mail satchel.

Date: 1930, August 8
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059953
United States women diving team practice for the Olympics at a pool in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

United States women diving team in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Members of women diving team Helen Meany, Frances Meany and Georgia Coleman in swimming suits as they pose at the poolside. Two girls seated on a diving board as Olympic participants dive from another board. Girls roll and dive in the swimming pool one by one.

Date: 1930, August 11
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059955
Captain Frank Hawks completes a flight from Los Angeles to Long Island in a record time of 12 hours and 25 minutes.

American aviator Captain Frank M. Hawks lands in Long Island after a record flight in the United States. A Travel Air Mystery S aircraft comes in for landing at Curtis Field in Long Island on August 13, 1930. Aircraft lands and taxis. People gathered around the aircraft. Newsmen interview the pilot Captain Frank M. Hawks. Captain Hawks talks about the speed record set by him during his flight from Los Angeles to Long Island.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059960
Hunter brothers fly the City of Chicago aircraft setting new endurance flight record over Northbrook, Illinois

The airborne "City of Chicago" airplane circling the Sky Harbor Airport, at Northbrook, Illinois, setting a new flight endurance record. A large number of people gathered at the airport looking skywards. Stinson SM-1 aircraft, known as "Big Ben," flown by their brothers Albert and Walter, refuels City of Chicago in mid air. After refueling is complete, the hose is seen to drop free from the "City of Chicago." One of the Hunter brothers on the nose of "City of Chicago" as he inspects an engine. Civilians look at the sky.

Date: 1930, July
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059964