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French aviators practice shooting with firearms during World War I

French aviation officers practice tracking moving targets through skeet shooting during World War 1. Assistants launch targets into the air and the shooters fire at them. Scene shifts to the officers firing machine guns from airplane-type gun ring installations. (WWI. WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027323
French Caproni bomber prepares and departs on a mission during World War I.

Crew members climb aboard a Caproni bomber parked on an airfield in France, during World War 1. One of them slides a slender bomb into a holder in front of the plane. Brief view from rear engine looking forward to crew in their seats. Crew placing bombs into holders. Right engine being started. The bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Views from cockpit of takeoff and in flight. View from the air of military airfield and barracks below. View from the bomber of a French Nieuport 17 approaching. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027333
Wright Brothers' first flight is celebrated and seen in archival footage, including flights at Le Mans France and other sites

Chronicling history of early flight. A German motorless glider early aircraft is launched from atop a hill and flies over bystanders on a field. Short history of the Wright Brothers flights at Kitty Hawk is given, showing planes, hangar, and living quarters for the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina during 1903 to 1908 period. Footage of successful flightby Wilbur Wright in Le Mans France on August 8, 1908. People watch from grandstand as plane flies. Newspaper headlines detail success in Le Mans. Front page of "The North American" is shown with headline "Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk; flies 2.17 Miles in 106 Seconds!"

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027432
Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend".

Major Tinker issues orders to pilots Larson and Carr for Rio Grande border patrol in Texas "Big Bend". Curtiss biplane in the field. Pilots stand nearby and discuss. The plane takes off. Series of scenes of Curtiss biplane in air over Rio Grande.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027480
Pilot avigation training at Rockwell Field, California.

Pilots receive 'avigation' training in Rockwell Field, California. Pilot students in an airplane, which departs for Rockwell Field. Pilot looks at a map. Aerial view of downtown San Diego and the Hotel del Coronado. View of the fields, mountains, and ship at sea. Student pilots disembark from plane. Two officers give instruction regarding instrument flying and navigation. A map on a board in the background. Various bullet points regarding ground and air instructions for instrument navigation appear on the screen.

Date: 1935
Duration: 5 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027487
German shells exploding on Mount Rouge, in Flanders, during World War I

German shells exploding on Mount Rouge, in Flanders, during World War 1. (The so-called Mount Rouge is one of several hills in this relatively flat region.) Some of the shells burst in the air. But most strike the ground and raise considerable smoke and dust. Buildings can be seen in the background, and crops and trees in the vicinity, as well as lines of barbed wire on the hill itself.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027511