A small building atop a hill, farmers at a field and the beaches on the sea shore in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dense rain clouds pass over the building. Farmers in the field work hoeing crops Men and boys work on the farm. Another man watches. Papayas on the trees. Surf rolls up onto a beach. Coconut trees near the sea. View of Diamond Head.
Hawaiian men working in a pineapple field in Honolulu, Hawaii. A machine gun in a sandbag bunker along a street. Vehicles drive past the bunker on the street. Hawaiian men working in a pineapple field. He collects pineapples in a cloth bag. (World War II period).
View of houses and government buildings, roads and palm trees in Honolulu, Hawaii. Air raid shelters built in a sequence. A farmer at a field harvests pineapples. He picks pineapples and drops them in a cloth bag.
Space capsule from Discoverer XIV falling with a parachute. A USAF(United States Air Force) C-119 snags the canopy using a hook that was trailing the aircraft. C-119 brings the space capsule after catching it in mid air. Capsule removed from plane after landing. Crew being congratulated and an official addressing them at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
Left engine of a C-119J aircraft starts. Several C-119J aircraft of the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) taxi out for takeoff at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. They are on missions for Project Discoverer, to practice snagging space capsules as they parachute to earth from satellites in orbit. As they taxi, C-54 and C-124 aircraft can be seen in the far background. A Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser passenger airplane can be seen on a nearby taxiway. The first C-119J stops on the runway, and then proceeds to take off. Several more follow in succession.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
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