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Airmail airplane with engine running. Pilot hands objects from cockpit to policemen on running boards of sedan

A pilot sits in the cockpit of an aircraft with engine running. A large sedan,with uniformed police officers riding on its running boards,races up to the aircraft. Pilot hands objects from cockpit to officers and car speeds away. Aircraft is low wing cantilevered monoplane with radial engine.

Date: 1933
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049415
German ships return to home ports in the light of the threat of a world conflict.

Events prior to World War II. A German ship at the New York harbor. A man aboard the ship. Ships underway at sea return to home ports as the threat of World War II looms large.

Date: 1938, September 28
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049455
Howard Hughes flies from Burbank to New York in Lockheed Super Electra.

A Lockheed Super Electra plane pushed out of a hangar in Burbank, California. Howard Hughes boards the aircraft and engine starts. Aircraft taxis along and takes off. Plane lands at an airfield in New York as a large crowd gathers to welcome him. Crowds cheer. Hughes in an interview expresses the desire to bring aviators from all over the globe together in New York.

Date: 1938, July 6
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049678
Construction of first Boeing Model 717 (KC-135) U.S. Air Force military jet tanker, at Renton, Washington. USA

The first U.S. Air Force jet tanker prototype being assembled in the Boeing Renton plant in Washington, USA. Like the Boeing 707, Its design is based on the Boeing Model 367-80 ("Dash 80"). But it is smaller, overall, than the 707, has a narrower, windowless fuselage, different cockpit window configuration, etc. Engineers are seen looking at design drawings placed on a wing. A worker climbs partway out of cockpit window.. A woman works on an engine nacelle. Several views of the plant interior with all activity concentrated on construction of this single aircraft.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049717
Charles Lindbergh takes off in Spirit of Louis for the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, France.

Charles Lindbergh poses beside his monoplane, Spirit of Louis at the Roosevelt Airfield in Long Island, New York. He shakes hands with two men. Lindbergh poses with his mother, Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, beside the aircraft. 'Spirit of Louis' clearly visible on the aircraft. A car followed by a truck towing the aircraft backward, passes on road. Men follow. Men inspect the aircraft. Man standing atop engine fills plane with fuel, hands empty jug to another man on ground, and receives another jug from a 3rd man to continue filling. Lindbergh receives help changing into his flight gear and then gets in the cockpit. Plane takes off from the airfield for his famous, Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight to Paris, France. Aerial views of Lindbergh's aircraft from another aircraft, as the expedition begins.

Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049964
U.S. Army bomb test sinks USS New Jersey off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, USA

Demonstration of the American Air Force against naval vessels of battleship class operate from temporary bases. American airmen prepare 1100 pound bombs. Men assemble tail section of a missile. Airmen check two 1100 pound bombs attached beneath an unidentified plane. Airmen attach a 2000 pound bomb to underside of an aircraft. General Mitchell and an airman crouched beneath the plane look at the 2000 pound bomb. Navy cutter type vessel, the San Mihiel, anchored in sea. Observers on the San Mihiel include General Pershing, Davis, Admiral Shoemaker Assistant Secretary of War and General Patrick Chief of Air Service. Four of them stand on the deck of the cutter vessel. Battleship USS New Jersey anchored. Bombs strike near ship. Bomber flying 175 miles from Langley Field score five direct hits with six 100 pound bombs from an altitude of 11,000 feet. Views of bomb strike on USS New Jersey. A smoke curtain is dropped by a bomber from an altitude of 1000 feet. An aircraft in flight in line with the New Jersey lays a smoke screen across the water. Smoke curtain obscures sight of the battleship. Bomb strikes near and upon the battleship USS Virginia. Direct hits scored by 1100 pound bombs on the deck of USS Virginia.

Date: 1923, September 1
Duration: 7 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049992