Pilots in Consolidated N2Y-1 trainer airplanes practice hooking onto and releasing from the USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Akron in flight. Consolidated N2Y-1 trainers are seen maneuvering below the airship to accomplish their hookups and releases. The aircraft are fitted with special trapeze hook equipment.
An altitude record by John A. Macready and Roy S. Langham in the United States. Le Pere Lusac biplane at a distance. The plane takes off, is in flight and lands. Cockpit of the biplane. A pilot and a copilot get out of the plane. They are wearing leather flying suits and have parachutes strapped on. John A. Macready shake hands with Roy S. Langham. Langham is wearing goggles and a leather mask. He removes his goggles and mask.
Lt. Russell Maughan in the United States. Lt. Maughan gets into a cockpit and another man helps him. A man cranks a fuel pump by hand and others stand near it. A Curtiss PW-8 plane takes stop in Dayton, Ohio. A man notes on a paper and others stand near him. The plane taxis on a field. People stand at the back. The plane takes off for St. Joseph. Bystanders obscure the view of the take off.
Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman on a Stinson Detroiter in Jacksonville, Florida. The monoplane stationed showing legend on side 'The Stinson Detroiter'. Fuel tanks are put aboard the plane by men and fuel is put into tanks. George Haldeman with two ladies. Eddie Stinson looks out of the cockpit. The aircraft takes off.
History and development of aviation in the United States and elsewhere in the world in the early 20th century.Ground crew fueling a German made Fokker T-2 airplane from gasoline cans. Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John Macready, in 1923, standing by their Fokker T-2 aircraft, upon which is painted: "Army Air Services, Non Stop, Coast to Coast." Fokker T-2 airplane taking off. Army officers looking at several biplanes parked, without propellers. A JN-4H (Jenny) airplane in flight. American military engineers or Seabees building an airfield in the Pacific during World War 2. B-25 aircraft sits in middle of construction activity. Crew under a C-47 in snow in the Arctic. A map shows the future commercial air routes of the world.
Development of aviation in the United States during 1940s. Transport and bomber aircraft under construction in factories staffed by World War II war production workers. P-38 lightning fighters under construction in a factory, in 1944. A train carries raw materials on railroad in arid area. A woman taps rubber trees in tropical area. Formation of C-47 aircraft with individual planes "peeling off" for landing. American C-47 transport aircraft being loaded. Soldiers load a jeep on one. Soldiers load an artillery gun on another. C-47 taxis for takeoff. Flight of 4 twin-engine bombers head-on view. The roof of a building reads 'radio range'. Interior cockpit view of aircraft instrument landing system (ILS) localizer and glide path needles moving toward center. A pilot in cockpit of a plane. A radio navigation transmitting tower. A ship in the ocean with a PBY Catalina flying over it. Flight engineer at his station in multi-engine aircraft. (World War II period).
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