View of Johannes Winkler's personal laboratory workshop in 1928. His first apparatus for testing liquid rocket fuels. The first device to be considered a flying testbed for Winkler's liquid rocket. The rocket with test facility. More laboratory apparatus. Test apparatus erected outdoors. Snow on the ground, and houses visible in background. Test equipment with spring force measurement capability. Winkler at his outdoor setup.
Views of Heidelberg, Germany, on the Neckar River. German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann and U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman, pose together outside Heidelberg University, on the occasion of their joint awards of honorary degrees. Scenes inside the university as they proceed down stairs accompanied by University faculty and officials.Outside, each of them converses with University officials in academic attire. Stresemann and Schurman pose flanked by the university officials.
Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) and Empress Nagako (Empress Kōjun) visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The Japanese national anthem, Kimigayo, plays as background music. Views of Japanese Emperor and Empress, somewhat out of sequence. Members of public, men, Women and children, wearing special tags, are assembled, and seated on the ground along a roadway outside the Yasukuni Shrine (3 chome 1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Toukyou-To 102-0073), in Tokyo Japan. Several uniformed guards wearing white arm bands, stand amongst them. Several uniformed motorcyclists lead a Mercedes-Benz Nurburg 770 limousine and others follow it as it passes along the road. The Japanese Imperial chrysanthemum seal is displayed on the rear door, and it appears to carry only one passenger. Chrysanthemum flags fly from wooden archway over the road. The front of a 1937 Packard automobile can be seen parked along with other cars on parallel auxiliary road. Across the road, uniformed Japanese officers stand in formation. Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa), in military uniform, descends steps of Yasukuni Shrine toward waiting automobile. A canopy over the steps displays chrysanthemum symbols and a banner with the symbol hangs from overhead. Scene shifts to gateway of the shrine, where soldiers salute and seated spectators bow as Grand (Grosser) Type 770 Mercedes-Benz limousine, bearing the Imperial Japanese chrysanthemum seal, passes under gateway arch, followed by motorcyclist escorts. The Emperor is seen seated in back seat with the Empress facing him, riding backwards. View of rooftop device on Yasukuni Shrine building. Change of scene, as Empress Nagako (Empress Kōjun), dressed all in white, descends Yasukuni Shrine steps. A streamer flies in breeze.
Rockets used in motor vehicles in Germany. An Opel motorcycle with rocket boosters and exhausts fitted on it. A man rides the motorcycle, releasing large amount of smoke from exhausts. 'Volkhart R-R1 Sander-Raketen' written on a motorcycle.
Descriptions and diagrams of various model airplanes used in experiments with solid powder propulsion, in Germany starting in 1927. Diagram of a 'Storch' model airplane. Diagram of "Ente"(Duck) model airplane. An Opel full scale model "Ent" airplane being checked out on a launching rail at an airfield. Fritz von Opel makes adjustments at the rear of the airplane and, assisted by several other men, moves the airplane along the launch ramp and back again. On the side of the plane is written: "Sander AK-1." Photographers take pictures. The first manned test of an Opel "ent" airplane is undertaken by the Research Institute of the RhonRossitten-Gesellschaft (RRG) under the direction of Fritz Stamer. In the first three trials the airplane fails to rise and simply skids along the ground. However, on the 4th try, it successfully flies off the launch rail in an extended high speed flight, for three-quarters of a mile in just under one minute. The successful flight is then shown in slow motion from two different camera angles.
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin floats in air low above field in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Letters on side of LZ-127 reads 'Graf Zeppelin'. Radio room under LZ-127. Ground crews encircle the control gondola of the airship as it touches down, and German soldiers, in uniform, help stabilize the tail support. Large tail propeller seen above their heads. Spectators walk toward LZ-127.
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