A large group of retired Air Force officers are seen seated at a number of tables during a luncheon celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 endurance record setting flight of the Fokker C-2A aircraft named "Question Mark." The event is in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeup of General Carl Spaatz, addressing the group from a podium. Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are listening, along with Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who,in October 1963, was aircraft commander on the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Lieutenant General Ira Eaker addresses the group next. Closeup of him and of General Spaatz tilting his head to hear. The audience applauding. Sergeant Roy Hooe then addresses the group. The clip ends as the luncheon ends and the participants socialize.
View of entrance to the Officers' Club at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. Sign reads "Officers' Open Mess." Several retired officers in civilian clothes emerge following a luncheon meeting. Scenes of the club, including a staff car parking at the curb; several women exiting; closeup of sign at doorway; and uniformed officers entering. View of the main gate entrance, from on the base, with cars entering and leaving. Closeup of the sign, reading "United States Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base."
"Patrician" passenger airplane carries 24 passengers in New York. The all metal Keystone K-78 monoplane parked at Mitchel field. Men gather near the airplane. It flies in the sky. Aerial views of the aircraft in flight. Fascinating aerial views of New York City skyscrapers from relatively low aerial height, including the Woolworth Building and a clock tower building, as seen through the windows of the Keystone aircraft.
An airplane parked at an airport in Chicago, Illinois. "Sky diner" written on the airplane. Men and women stand near the passenger airplane. The plane takes off. It flies in the sky. Chef preparing food on board the flying restaurant. A steward or flight attendant serves food in the plane. Men and women customers eating food in the flying diner.
Curtiss Oriole airplane at Mc Cook field in Dayton, Ohio. Pilot Harry Block, Mrs. S.E.J. Cox and her son come out of the airplane. Hangar nearby the plane. Other men stand near the plane. The lady looks at a paper. They get into the plane.
A Fokker F-10 trimotor airplane outside a hangar in the United States. A pilot sits in the cockpit. Other men stand nearby. Plane taxis and takes off. It flies in the sky.
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