Newsreel titled 'The flying flivver lands in Washington D.C.' shows a Ford two cylinder monoplane landing in Washington D.C.,United States ending its Detroit-to-Miami trip in Asheville due to bad weather. Pilot Brooks get out from the plane as people gather around it to take a look. People lift the plane.
Georgia Tech wins American football match in Atlanta, Georgia. Teams of Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Miami University play American football game. Spectators watch the match and cheer the players. Georgia Tech wins by 14-6.
A Miami Airlines Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando airliner crashes in Elizabeth, New Jersey. View of the wrecked Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando aircraft. People stand near the wreckage. Men take out injured and dead passengers from the wrecked aircraft. The wrecked parts of aircraft scattered in Elizabeth River. People near the accident area. A damaged house. A fire brigade drives on a road. People on a street. The C-46 wrecked parts.
Howard Hughes sets a new record and arrives at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Aircraft taxis and stops. Views of engine and parts of the aircraft. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. , American aviator in cockpit . He sets a new record by flying from Miami to New York in 4 hours and 21 minutes. He gets off from the cockpit and poses.
Aftermath of Japanese Kamikaze attack that struck aft of number 5 gun on the destroyer, USS Sigsbee (DD-502), April 14th, 1945, while she was on radar picket duty off Okinawa, during World War 2. The USS Sigsbee is seen with its stern partly under water. The USS Dashiell (DD-659) is in the background. View of the Sigsbee, from the U.S. Cruiser, USS Miami(CL-89) as she prepares to take the destroyer under tow. Some Sigsbee crew members seen on her upper deck and several occupy her gun position forward of the damaged area. Camera pans over Sigsbee's main deck, where many of her crew are seen, and then focuses on her bow, as crews from both ships secure tow lines.
Civilians and Servicemen watch the flying maneuvers of airplanes in the 11th All-America Air Maneuvers show. Early flight stunt Birdman Clem Sohn stages breathtaking exhibition wearing his 'Bat man' ornithopter suit of wings. He jumps from a plane, flies using his wingsuit, and lands with his parachute. Close up view of Clem Sohn on the ground.
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