American aviator Charles Lindbergh in New York., United States after a successful trans Atlantic flight. A large number of people gathered at Central Park to welcome Lindbergh. Decorated floats move past a crowd. A model of the Spirit of Saint Louis on a float. Aviator Lindbergh with Governor of New York Al Smith.
Subject is the 1926 Ford "National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy," which started at Ford Field, Dearborn, Michigan, on August 7, 1926. Film opens showing a parked biplane with tandem open cockpits. It has an unusual exhaust gathering container atop its engine and an exhaust pipe extending straight down below the fuselage. Camera shows the same aircraft from the rear, with hangar and terminal building in background. Another parked biplane displays the number "19." It is equipped with small interconnected wing flaps on its upper and lower wings. Next is seen a Woodson Model 2-A Biplane with number 14 on its fuselage and another biplane marked Number 11. Closeup of Henry Ford leaning out of a car, talking with a cinematographer, holding a camera, and reporters. A large group of persons involved in the events pose for a photograph. The camera pans across them as they pose in front of a hangar. Scene shifts to spectators crowding around a Ford-Stout 2-AT aircraft as it begins its takeoff roll. Camera follows the airplane as it continues and becomes airborne.
1930 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford Trimotor aircraft in flight approaching the Ford Airport. Two men on the airfield. The Ford Trimotor taxiing on the airfield. A man on the airfield watching the trimotor. 'Ford' written on the side of the aircraft and number '5' written on the tail. Men getting out of the airplane and a few men standing at its door. Two women and two men pose and three men talk beside the trimotor. Woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins, steps from the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane (NC30V), and poses beside it. (The number "22" is written on the aircraft fuselage and "Kitty Hawk" on the tail.) .Men and women behind the aircraft. Another aircraft in the background.
A group of people standing underneath a tree and looking up. A cat is stuck in the branches of a tree. A young man climbs up the thorny branches to rescue t cat and brings it down. The cat was stuck for 120 hrs in isolation. People are happy to have their pictures clicked with the cat.
28th President of the United States,Thomas Woodrow Wilson talking to Press correspondents. He is leaving for the Paris Peace Conference and is seen aboard the ship SS George Washington. Ship's officers and and a sailor can be seen in the background.
Dr. R.H. Lord, the American representative on the Commission of Polish affairs, George Louis Beer, the American Authority on colonial issues, and Mark Jefferson, Chief Cartographer for the American Peace Commission at the postwar negotiations seen talking amongst themselves. They are leaving for the Paris Peace Conference on the USS George Washington ship. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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