'The Epic American Trans Atlantic Flight' depicts crashes involving various pilots in the United States during early aviation history. Captain Charles A. Lindbergh. On September 21, 1926, Rena Fonck stands in front of his Sikorsky airplane, ready to try a solo flight across the Atlantic to Paris. He takes off and crashes in flames. Navy Commander Richard E. Byrd poses. On April 16, 1927, his Fokker C-2 trimotor airplane ("America"), piloted by Anthony Fokker, with Byrd, Floyd Bennett, and George O. Norville on board, flips over on takeoff at Hasborough, New Jersey. In September, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin in a Bellanca aircraft taxis and takes off. The tail and right main wheel dig into the soft field on landing and the airplane is severely damaged. The wreck of the "American Legion" Keystone Pathfinder airplane that carried Commander Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton Wooster to their deaths, in a crash landing, in the Back river, near Langley Field, Virginia, In Paris, on April 26, 1927, French pilot, Captain Charles Nungesser, and Francois Coli pose before taking off on their ill fated flight in a Levasseur PL8 aircraft named " White Bird." Charles Lindbergh standing next to his mother, Evangeline Land Lindbergh. The "Spirit of St. Louis" is towed out and refueled at Mineola, New York. Charles Lindbergh climbs into the plane and makes a bumpy takeoff. Bystanders watch. People gather to greet him upon arrival in Paris. Lindbergh poses with U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick. Lindbergh honored by the French President Gaston Doumergue.
Training facility for African American teachers in Bowie, Maryland, United States. Houses at a distance on a farmland. Trees and tower in the background. Board on the farmland reads "Maryland State Normal School, Colored, Bowie Maryland, trains elementary teachers." School building with a flag on its top. House behind the trees.
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
A Ford 5-AT Tri-motor Float plane is seen being moving under its own power in a river during tests in 1925. (Its first flight was in 1926.) Later, it is seen being towed close to a tugboat, by a line fastened to its nose. Two men in life jackets stand atop its wing, and several follow in a dory. Several men monitor the tow line from the back of the tugboat.
U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower calls for a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland, United States. Dignitaries disembark from a car at Camp David. United States Secretary of the Treasury George Magoffin Humphrey, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay and other cabinet members arrive for the meeting. The President gets off his car. He is greeted by officials. The President is joined by United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles . The cabinet seated for the meeting.
Firestone family camp in Maryland, United States. Harvey Samuel Firestone founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company with wife Idabelle Smith Firestone and son Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr and his wife Elizabeth Parke Firestone walk on a path with trees on either side. One of the members climb a rock formation. They enjoy near a stream of water. They walk at the edge of the rock formation in water. Maryland state police officers at a service
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