NASA Freedom Seven, America's first sub-orbital flight. Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain underway. Marine helicopter HUS-1 above the capsule as it descends down after the flight. Capsule near surface of water. HUS-1 lifts the capsule. Another HUS-1 in flight. Mercury capsule lowers. Crowd on aircraft carrier. Capsule lowered on special pad on carrier. Landing bag collapsed and tied-down. Landing on aircraft carrier deck. Commander Alan B Shepard assisted by copilot in the helicopter. Commander Alan B Shepard and others on flight deck. Commander Shepard retrieves his helmet from capsule and walks in Admiral's cabin. He gets out of his space suit. Doctor Robert Laning and Jerome Strong beside him. President Kennedy congratulates him on phone. He talks to other officers. He drinks from a glass. He climbs aboard a Grumman S2F/TF aircraft on deck. Personnel on super structure of carrier. The plane takes off.
Several attempts to fly ornithopters, intended to fly by flapping of wings. They manage to move their wings but fail in attempts to fly. The largest of them might be Gustav Lilienthal's large ornithopter, which was demonstrated in Germany and had a 3 horse power motor.
History of early flight and historic early attempts in aviation. Men run beside a seven-winged airplane as it begins to move in front of a hangar building. The aircraft collapses into pieces on the ground. before attaining speed.
Three rockets are adjusted on a metal holder fastened to the back of an ice skater. View of rocket ignition control fastened on skater's belt. He presses button to close battery circuit and ignite rockets. He leans forward and starts to be propelled by the rockets. But the skater loses his balance in the humorous stunt and falls on the ice, with the rockets still firing.
Early attempts of aviation. Views of a man using bicycle-type pedals to power an airplane. View of the machine atop a launching ramp. Two men assist as the operator pedals and the machine moves down the ramp. The would-be airplane simply falls off the end of the ramp onto the ground. The attempt is repeated with the same results.
Scenes of vintage, historic, early aviation flight attempts: Men at controls of several unsuccessful ornithopter aircraft, intended to fly by flapping wings. One man rides a bicycle equipped with wings that he flaps using sticks by his handle bars. Another sits in a tub-like machine with tricycle wheels, as it "flaps" its wings. In a third scene, men assist as operator moves very large wings on a machine. Although the wings move, the machine doesn't. This large machine might be Gustav Lilienthal's ornithopter. It had a 3 horse-power motor. Location might be Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, around 1927
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