An early helicopter being tested at facility of the P-V Engineering Forum (later the Piasecki Co.) in Roxborough, Pennsylvania. Pilot attempting tethered flight in a one-place stripped prototype of the P-V2 helicopter Men stand by side of the helicopter as the pilot sits in the framework cockpit. They maintain hold on the landing gear of the helicopter as the pilot experiments with the controls and familiarizes himself with the helicopter's response. A long tethering rope snakes out along the ground near the helicopter. The pilot succeeds in hovering the craft a foot or two above the ground.
Platt-LePage Aircraft Company of Eddystone, Pennsylvania. A boy poses by a cockpit mockup of the XR-1 helicopter. Pilot Lou Leavitt sits in the mockup with his arm around the boy. The boy poses with four employees of the Platt-LePage Aircraft Company. Scene shifts to flight testing of the U.S. Army Air Corps XR-1 helicopter, which moves about in a variety of maneuvers, demonstrating considerable stability and control, although confined to a relatively low altitude of approximately fifty feet.
Begum Aga Khan,wife of Aga Khan III, arrives in New York to be a guest of honor at the Imperial Ball . She visits patients at Veteran's hospital.
USAF training film. Crewman climbs up the top of the wing of C-133A aircraft for inspection. Crewmen walk on aircraft wing and inspects everything accessible, including fuel check with dip stick and hydrometer. Photographed at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Aircraft assigned to 1st ATS, 1607th Air Transport Wing, Atlantic Division, Military Air Transport Service.
USAF training film. View of the large cargo compartment inside C-133A aircraft. Crewman enters the cargo compartment and starts inspection. Crewman inspects everything around including wire bundles, floor, indicators and roof of the cargo compartment. After inspection ,crewman exits out of the aircraft. Photographed at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Aircraft assigned to First Air Transport Squadron, 1607th Air Transport Wing, Military Air Transport Service (MATS).
Albert Einstein at a press conference table with the President of Yeshiva University. The President of the university dedicates the new College of Medicine to Einstein, as the "Albert Einstein College of Medicine." It is Einstein's 75th birthday. A representative of the college presents Einstein with a model of the new college. Einstein speaks and giving thanks, says that the hospital will contribute to the general welfare. Einstein poses for the photographers.
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