Interiors of Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. Workers make navy rubber life saving rafts. Girl workers make form of raft on table, apply rubber cement to forms and prepare handles. Workers fill air raft with air hose and test pressure. Women apply rubber cement on handler. Man stack rafts on pile of rafts. Navy officer and plant officials check rafts and equipment. Man release air valve inflating raft. Officer and Plant officials talk.
1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
Aircraft in flight during United States Air Corps Demonstrations at Command Schools in United States. U.S. Army Air Corps bomber aircraft Keystone LB-5 in flight. Planes in formation. Several U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss-Martin bomber aircraft NBS-1 in flight in formation. Aerial view of the land below.
Air Corps Demonstrations team during tour of Command Schools United States. Inspection of aircraft equipment by Congressmen and other Government officials. United States Assistant Secretary of War for Air F. Trubee Davison talks to U.S. Brigadier General Benjamin Foulois and other staff. Men stand together in front of the aircraft parked on a field. Bombs lying on the ground. Two men arrange them. A sign near the bombs read 'Danger'. Two men fuse bombs in an aircraft. U.S. Army Air Corps attack aircraft Curtiss A-3 Falcon in flight. The planes frag bomb on targets. Smoke rises up due to explosions.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 transport aircraft carrying French General Charles de Gaulle, landing at Washington National Airport. Military honor guard is assembled on the ramp at the Air Transport Command section of the airport. Parked on tarmac are U.S. military aircraft include: B-17; T-6; several C-45s; and a C-46. The C-54, carrying General de Gaulle, taxis in at high speed using inboard engines, alone. Heavy smoke seen behind from locomotive on railroad (hidden behind trees). Potomac River in background. General de Gaulle descends from aircraft followed by several officials, and walks between saluting honor guard, as gun salutes are fired from artillery on airfield in background.(White smoke visible from the field guns.) General de Gaulle, wearing rank of Major General, and French 4-star General,Henri Giraud, salute as band plays national anthem. High-ranking American and French officers mingle and converse, including U.S. Air Force General Hap Arnold, and General George Marshall, who speaks briefly with General de Gaulle. (World War II period).
A U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell aircraft dive bombs on Malabang during the attack mission in Lanao del Sur Province in Philippines Island in World War II. B-25 Mitchell aircraft dive bombs on target areas in Malabang in Lanao del Sur Province. The bombs being dropped by the aircraft explode and black smoke rises into the air over the fields. The aircraft in flight. A few soldiers near a radio jeep on the field. Lieutenant Kaudson briefs a few soldiers near the radio jeep for the next mission. Lieutenant Kaudson calls the command post on talkie. Soldiers with a guerrilla officer on the field. Bombs dropped by the B-25 aircraft explode. Thick black smoke rise into the air. The aircraft in flight in the sky.
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