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General Doolittle presents the 'Safety Trophy' to General Albert Boyd during the 13th Anniversary celebration in Florida.

13th Anniversary celebration in Coconut Grove, Florida. Governor Goodwin Knight of California speaks into a microphone during the ceremony. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson, National Commander of American Legion Seaborn Collins and Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope. USAF General Doolittle presents the 'Safety Trophy' to the USAF for reducing vehicular accidents. This trophy which is accepted by General Albert Boyd representing USAF, to be presented to the winning command yearly.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033842
Six parachutists board air transport carrier C-1 for setting up a record for parachute jump at Kelly Field in Texas.

Activities of the U.S. Army Air Service at Kelly Field in Texas. Six parachutists and crew stand in front of air transport carrier C-1. They board the aircraft. Parachutists leave the plane and descend. The parachutists in flight. They land at a field.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033846
A RS-1 airship is towed out of a hangar and is in flight at Scott Field in Oklahoma, United States.

Activities of the U.S. Army Air Service at Scott Field in Oklahoma, United States. A blimp RS-1 airship is towed out of a hangar. The crew near a control car. Twelve crewmen board the RS-1. It rises up and the engines start. The RS-1 in flight. Crewmen at controls. Lt. Major. General Orival Anderson signals through an electric signal system. The airship lands.

Date: 1925
Duration: 4 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033847
Montage of Wright brothers and their airplanes in France and at Ft. Myer, Arlington, Virginia.

As a contrast to the early pioneering airplanes, passengers are seen seated inside cabin of a "modern" airplane (Douglas DC-4E). View of the DC-4E in flight. A view of Orville Wright. Wilbur Wright gesturing as he talks with officials in France about an aerial course to be flown. Wilbur Wright placing wheels under a Wright Flyer before it is moved across a muddy field in France. A team of men pull a rope raising a catapult weight in a tower. The weight falls, catapulting the Wright Flyer airplane into the air. Soldiers remove a Wright Flyer airplane from a storage building onto the parade grounds at Ft. Myer, Virginia. The airplane is seen in flight with Orville Wright alone, at the controls, On July 30, 1909, soldiers are seen moving a Wright Flyer from its shed for its final acceptance test. President William Howard Taft, U.S. Army Major George Owen Squier, U.S. Army Major Charles E. Saltzman and Wilbur Wright are among those standing with the President, as the Wright Flyer is moved toward the parade ground. Views of the monorail and weight and catapult used for launching an airplane. Men turn the two propellers on a Wright Flyer, as Wilbur Wright stands at the rear of the aircraft engine and makes an adjustment. . On September 9, 1908. U.S. Army Lt. Frank P. Lanham, seen in uniform, seated on a Wright Flyer, is joined by Orville Wright. Wilbur. They take off and set a new airborne endurance record, and Lt. Lanham becomes the first Military officer to fly in an airplane. On July 30th, as part of the final acceptance test, Orville Wright takes Army Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois on a cross country flight to Alexandria, Virginia, and back again. They are seen aboard the Wright Flyer, and then high in the air on their way to Alexandria.

Date: 1908
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033853
U.S. Army aircraft provide food to snowbound Navajo Indians in Arizona.

U.S. Army Curtiss B-2 Condor bombers being used for humanitarian purpose. Food being packed into the airplanes and delivered to snow bound Navajo Native American Indian people in Arizona. Men load bags of food in a plane. Men look at a map and chart the route with the help of an Indian guide. Aircraft in flight over a snowy region. Shadows of the planes visible on the snow. On the ground, food is distributed to the Navajo families.

Date: 1932, January
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033863
Cox- Klemin XA-1 ambulance plane assists in evacuation of injured from Texas after the tornado.

After a tornado struck the small town of Rocksprings, Texas, killing 56 people and injuring another 200, the U.S. Army sent aircraft to help, including a Cox- Klemin XA-1 ambulance plane, dispatched from kelly Field. A Stretcher case being carried out to the ambulance aircraft. It taxis and takes off. A red cross on the fuselage and tail of the ambulance plane.

Date: 1927, April 14
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033864