Two fliers -- Pilot Lieutenant Kelly and observer Lt. Jay Paul Harman -- approach a Spad XI with U.S. Army Air Service logo on it during World War I. They consult over some notes and then board the aircraft, takeoff, and fly on an observation mission. Spad XI flying overhead. The original Spad XI seen landing and taxiing. A Frenchman of the 28th Escadrille runs up to meet the plane and is handed something (a negative?) by the rear gunner/observer, Lt. Jay Paul Harman. Next scene shows U.S. and French military personnel gathered reviewing photo images brought to them by a runner. The officers include American officers Lieutenant J. P. Harmon, Lt. John S. Beekley and Lt. R. T. Maddock and Frenchman Captain DeSaint Cerau.
Louis Bleriot piloting one of his planes. French aviator Louis Bleriot, the first man to successfully cross English Channel seated in the plane. Plane is ready for take-off. A man spins propeller.
Father of aviation, Wilbur Wright adjusting a transporting wheel in a plane. A horse driven cart seen. Several men cranking the 25 horse power motor of Wright airplane.
Men standing near a Wright machine. Plane catapulted by means of a falling weight. Several men hauling up the weight that catapulted the plane from the rail.
French social leaders fashionably dressed watch demonstration of flying. Men and women are seen wearing hats. Wilbur Wright goes up with a French journalist remaining aloft for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. Both seen seated in the plane. Several men stand as the plane takes off. A newspaper headline reads 'Wright in new world record'.
Antoinette Monoplane designed by French aircraft designer Leon Levavasseur on field. Aviator Hubert Latham with the plane. Men gathered around the monoplane.
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