The U.S. Navy Department in Washington DC, United States. A number of vehicles drive past the U.S. Navy Department. The flag of the U.S. flutters from a pole on the building. United States Secretary of Navy William Frank Knox with U.S. Navy Admiral Harold Stark; Captain Beatty; Vice Admiral John Henry Towers and the Assistant Secretary of Navy ( Air) A. Gates. The officials discuss important issues during the meeting. William Frank Knox smokes a pipe while speaking to the group.
The U.S. Navy Department in Washington DC, United States. 'Secretary of the Navy' written on the door of an office. Vice Admiral John Henry Towers speaks to Captain Davison and Captain Ramsey in his office. Vice Admiral Towers explains about an aircraft with the help of a model aircraft.
U.S. sailors assemble seaplanes in the United States. The seaplanes lined up on a shore in front of canvas hangars. A seaplane flies over a battleship and a submarine. United States sailors assemble the parts of an airplane. They put a wing into place, assemble the tail portion and place the propeller on the airplane.
United States Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to 'USS Patoka' for a test trip from Lakehurst, New Jersey to Montauk Harbor, Long Island. Dirigible Los Angeles being moored on the mast of USS Patoka in the North Atlantic Ocean. Crew members walk out of the dirigible. A United States aircraft dives.
Documentary film 'The Jet Engines' about the develpment of an American jet airplane, with help of the British who provide General Electric Company with a prototype engine developed by British RAF Group Captain Frank Whittle. A B-17 aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. Vehicles carry U.S. Air Forces officers and civilian engineers to an airfield where a man stands with a gun next to a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft. The visitors look at cargo containers being offloaded from the aircraft. They contain a prototype British Whittle turbojet engine. Scene shifts to meeting of executives of the General Electric Company with U.S. Army Air Forces officers. They look at schematic of the Whittle engine. GE officials commit to building an American turbojet engine to power U.S. Air Forces airplanes.
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
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