General Carl Spaatz, Colonel Harry Halverson, and General Ira Eaker, seat themselves on a couch in the Officer's Club at Bolling Air Force Base, during a gathering of retired Air Force officers celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1929 record-setting endurance flight by Air Force crews, of the Fokker C-2A airplane named "question mark." Closeup of them conversing. Closeup of aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who flew on the Question Mark. Major General Brooke Allen (Commander of Headquarters Command at Bolling AFB) holds a model of the "Question Mark" and discusses it with the others. View of the 5 men seated around a cocktail table discussing the 1929 endurance flight.
Mechanics perform pre-departure maintenance on a Ford trimotor airplane at a hangar in Detroit, Michigan. Later, pilots Floyd Bennett and Bert Balchen, and others, board and take off. Aerial view from above, of the airplane flying en route to Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) Quebec, Canada, to bring supplies needed to repair the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had crash-landed on Greenly Island after a transatlantic flight.
Monoplane aircraft designed by Major Schroeder shows Plexiglas nose in New York. Large flaps on the wings of the plane. The airplane stands in the field. Men gather near the plane. X-58 N written on the plane.
Safe planes compete in Guggenheim Aircraft Competition in Mitchel field in New York. Plane on the field. Pilots in cockpit. The plane takes off. A guard tower in the background. Other plane in the field. A British entry in the competition. The Handley-page showing its safety slotted wings stands on the field. It takes off. Other plane takes off.
Inventor Burnelli exhibits latest safety airplane in Roosevelt field in New York. Airplane on the field. Pilot in the cockpit. Houses in the background. The plane takes off. It flies in the sky.
An American plane wins the safety prize in the Guggenheim Aircraft Corporation in New York. The plane in the field after winning. People cheer and applaud. A man talks to the owner of the winning plane. He gives him a check. Demonstration of the plane activities. The plane flies in the sky. The plane lands on the field.
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