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Frido W. Kessler's rocket-propelled mail plane launches on frozen lake Greenwood, New York, United States, 1936
Frido W. Kessler and his rocket-propelled mail plane. (Allegedly, the first scheduled mail-delivery rocket flight) Kessler is seen in his workshop with his test stand and apparatus. Launch of Kessler's first winged liquid-fueled (liquid oxygen and Kerosene) mail rocket plane on frozen Greenwood Lake, New York, February 23,1936. Launch team opens the nose to insert mail into the rocket-propelled glider plane (reportedly designed by German rocket pioneer Dr. Willy Ley). Kessler poses with a little girl, Gloria Schleich Quackenbush, for whom the plane is named. She holds a silver cup of snow. They are surrounded by a cluster of men. Photographic equipment is set up next to them. The girl, Gloria, empties the cup of snow onto the tail of the rocket plane, to Christen it "Gloria (I)." Launch team fueling the rocket from containers. A technician in fireproof protective suit lights fuel at tail of the plane. It flares up in flames and then settles down with normal rocket burn, and leaves the launch stand. (A second rocket plane is seen sitting on the ice near the launch stand.) The rocket glider only goes about 20 feet before falling onto the ice. Team members look over the stand and prepare to try again with Kessler's second plane, the "Gloria (II)." They load the mail (6000 letters and postcards) into the nose and set the plane on the launch stand. It launches very nose high, and strikes the ice near the stand. But the rocket motor continues to propel it across the ice until it takes off again and continues, a way in the air until flipping over and crashing on the ice. View of people surrounding the broken plane on the ice. (Note: The second attempt carried the Gloria II and its mail, about 2000 feet, far enough to cross the border from New York into New Jersey, constituting an interstate mail delivery, and making the letters and post cards worthy mementos of the event.)
People and visitors enjoy recreational facilities in New York Central Park.
A U.S. Army Reorientation film. Recreational facilities in New York City's Central Park. Aerial view of Central Park with skyscrapers of Manhattan and skyline of New York City seen flanking it. View of 59th street and park entrance. View of horse-drawn hansom cabs and the Seal Pool. People feeding pigeons. Children in park. Cart pony rides at the zoo. People watch zoo animals like chimpanzees. Various lakes in park. People on boats in lakes. People fishing including a boy standing on a rock fishing. View of Bethesda Fountain. Various statues. Weather station and Cleopatra's Needle. People enjoy concerts at Central Park Mall. President Harry S Truman makes an address in the park. People enjoy Square dancing with caller, dancing at the Tavern On The Green, playing tennis, softball game with young men or teenage boys, basketball game with teenage boys, football, horseback riding, winter sports including sleds in the snow and horse-drawn sleigh rides, kids making snowmen, warmer weather activities like pitching horseshoes, playing checkers, people laying on the ground and relaxing on benches and grass.
Annual visit of the directors to review the progress at the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York.
Annual visit of the directors at the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (Saranac Lake, NY 12983, United States) in Saranac Lake, New York. A car moves towards the Will Rogers Memorial hospital building. Trees on either side of the way. A sign board seen outside the building. Directors get out of the car and move inside the hospital. Directors and guests visit to review the annual progress report, expansion of the hospital and research facility. A man points at the x-ray films of the ribs. The directors attend the session. A statue of Will Rogers. The directors tour the hospital building.
New York City Mayoral Candidate, Fiorello LaGuardia, is introduced at a Fusion Party meeting.
Meeting of the Fusion Party, at the Manhattan Opera Center, during campaign to elect a Mayor of New York City. Their candidate for Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, is introduced to the crowd. The crowd welcomes him. 1934. The sequence is repeated several times and there is only a momentary bit of sound (when LaGuardia is introduced as the next Mayor of New York).
The inauguration of a new medical library and a study center at Will Rogers Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York
Will Rogers Hospital in Saranac Lake, New York. The exterior of the hospital's building. The Board of Directors dig the ground with spades for the inauguration of a new medical library and a study center in the memory of Abe Montage, former president of the hospital. People in the garden of the hospital. A statue of Will Rogers.
Welcome of the candidate for Mayor of New York F.H.LaGuardia at his election campaign.
The campaign of the Fusion party for the election of Mayor of the New York city at the Manhattan Opera Center, New York City. The chairpersons invite the candidate Fiorello LaGuardia on the stage and welcome him. Whole assembly sings campaign song to melody of Marine Hymn. 1934.
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