Arriving passenger at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States, speaks favorably about her experience traveling on Zeppelin airships. She had flown on the Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) five times, and liked it, but states that the Graf Zeppelin is more like a yacht, compared to the Hindenburg which is more like a steamship. But she considers her trip on the Hindenburg (LZ-129) to be "overwhelming altogether.."
Comments made by British journalist Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, a female passenger arriving at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States aboard the zeppelin airship Hindenburg. Lady Hay Drummond-Hay speaks about her experience traveling aboard the German Zeppelin Hindenburg (LZ-129). She had already made about 6 flights aboard Zeppelins. However, she says that she enjoyed the trip tremendously, that it was a real revelation.She felt the Graf Zeppelin was like a "stalking" experiment in such travel, but this was something real and "wonderful." She says that they used to talk to the crew. She speaks about lounge, dining room, flowers, cooking and cabins of the zeppelin.
American aviator Howard Hughes flies from coast to coast in 7 ½ hours. Hughes exits out of cockpit of Hughes H-1 Racer plane in Newark, New Jersey. Crowd surrounds the plane. Cameraman atop a car. Hughes H-1 Racer being pushed by men towards a hangar.
Silk mill strikers march in the streets to protest against the mill owners, Paterson, New Jersey. Strikers carry banners as they march to protest. Strikers engage in a street riot with police. Policemen try to control the strikers. The riot leads to six arrests and renders one injured.
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey. German airship Hindenburg at the Lakehurst Naval Air station after it caught fire. Twisted girders and remains of the airship as naval officers inspect the damaged airship. An official comes out of a building as press questions him about the Hindenburg disaster. Mutilated passengers being put in an ambulances and being taken away for medical aid. Naval officers pose with a young boy outside a building. Officers at an inquiry being conducted into the Hindenburg disaster by the United States Department of Commerce. Officers swear prior to testifying before the inquiring committee.
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