Mafia crime figures leave New York City courthouse in hancuffs and are escorted to waiting U.S. Marshal van. Photographers take photographs.
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.
Inside view of United Nations Headquarters where United Nations meeting is in progress. Dr Oswaldo Aranha, President of the session and assembly seated. United Nations ponders Palestine problem. Terrorist attack at Rehovoth is shown. Cairo to Haifa express railroad train blown up and derailed. British soldiers look through wreckage of train. Injured turkish woman mourning over her 3 year old son. Injured carried from train.
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.
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