American aviator Charles Lindbergh begins his solo trans-Atlantic flight. Men prepare Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis' at Roosevelt Field (Piombo Roosevelt Field, 630 Old Country Rd, Garden City, NY 11530, United States) in New York. Lindbergh and the officials head towards the plane. A crowd gathered around to view the event. A man refuels the plane. Lindbergh helped into his flying gear. He climbs into the cockpit. The plane taxis and takes off. People watch it disappear in the sky. Lindbergh's plane in flight.
USS Akron, helium filled Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Aerial view of USS Akron. Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes, trapeze-hook equipped , fly near USS Akron. Belly of USS Akron dirigible
USS Akron (ZRS-4), Navy Zeppelin dirigible in the United States. Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane, equipped for trapeze hookup, fastens to the USS Akron. It disconnects and flies away. Three planes beneath the USS Akron airship. Another N2Y-1 attempts to hook up, misses and flies off. Belly of USS Akron. One N2Y-1 hooked on and others in background. N2Y-1 hooked on, releases and flies away.
Maneuvers of the USS Akron (ZRS-4), helium filled airship off the Jersey Coast in the United States. A Consolidated N2Y-1, with trapeze hookup equipment, in flight. The plane is released from a trapeze on the USS Akron. The airship in flight. An aircraft hooked to trapeze on the USS Akron. Another plane follows the USS Akron. The USS Akron with a plane hooked onto the trapeze. Another plane follows directly beneath it. Structure of the USS Akron in flight.
Wright brothers' first aircraft flight together near Dayton Ohio in 1910. Wilbur Wright is in the pilot's seat with Orville Wright as passenger to his right. (Until this flight, the Wrights had never flown together so that if one of them was killed, the other could continue their work.) Next, a view of Alberto Santos-Dumont, and the first European flight made by him on 13 September 1909. Following segment shows crowds gathered at Washington DC Polo field as truck arrives carrying mail to be loaded on the first U.S. Air mail flight, May 15, 1918. Army pilot, Lieutenant Webb, in his JN-4H airplane, on Southbound flight from New York, takes off from Philadelphia, where he stopped to pick up more mail. He flies over the Washington Polo Field upon arrival. We see his airplane being unloaded as he jumps down from cockpit and crowds watch. Views of first transatlantic flight begins with takeoff of three out of four existing United States Navy Curtiss flying boat aircraft from Newfoundland, on May 16, 1919. Curtiss flying boats NC-1, NC-3, NC-4 are seen at takeoff from Newfoundland on first leg of the transatlantic journey. Flying Boat NC-4 is also seen at one of its foreign ports, though which is unclear (Azores, Lisbon, or England).
The Ford family at the Lincoln purchase ceremony in New York, United States. A statue of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Statue, 20 Union Square W, New York, NY 10003) in Union Square. A man reads from a paper. Various scenes of the Ford family inside and outside the Lincoln Building during the Lincoln purchase ceremony. Exchange of document in an office. Henry Ford, Mrs. Clara Jane Bryant, Edsel Bryant Ford and Henry M Leland of the Lincoln motor company and his wife pose with others.
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