A film on the development of air power. The use of aircraft for aerial combat in Europe. French Nieuport aircraft parked on an airfield. Men stand near an airplane. Bombs are loaded into an early bomber, with bombardier's compartment in the nose of an open cockpit. A machine gunner in the open cockpit of an aircraft in flight. Takeoff of a U.S. Army Air Service Curtiss JN-4 aircraft.
An air service field near Belrain, Meuse in France on 19th October, 1918 during World War I. U.S. Army Major General Mason Mathews Patrick decorates First Lieutenant E. V. Rickenbacker with the Distinguished Service Cross (4th Oak Leave cluster). Air Corps officers on the parade field. Captain James Armand Meissner and Lt. E. V. Rickenbacker with the Distinguished Service Crosses. Seven bi-wing airplanes flying overhead. An observation balloon in distant foreground. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Development of air power. Bombing tests on USS Alabama in September 1921 in the United States. USS Alabama anchored in water. A soldier arms and works on fuse mechanism of a large bomb swung underneath a large bomber. A standard-Handley Page 0/400 bomber in flight to the right over water. A United States Army Air Corps Dayton Wright DH-4 aircraft in flight to the left dropping a bomb. The bomb explodes on the ship. A phosphorus bomb explodes on the ship and engulfs the entire ship in smoke. The ship explodes. Part of the superstructure topples off into the water. The ship lists over a side with one of the towers bent over and lying in the water.
A transcontinental non stop flight in the United States. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft at Roosevelt Field in New York. ' Army Air Service Non-Stop Coast to Coast' painted on the side of the aircraft. Men near the aircraft. Lieutenant John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly are helped in their parachutes beside the aircraft. They pose. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight. It lands in San Diego, California. Lieutenants Macready and Kelly beside the aircraft. People in the background.
Early model aircraft in Europe, early in the history of flight. Animated map depicts European commercial air routes. Passengers enter the cabin of a British Handley Page W8B transport aircraft. Cargo is loaded into an early single engine bi winged aircraft. Passengers get off an old touring car and board a Farman Goliath airliner. 'Grands Express Aeriens' is printed on the aircraft. A medium sized British bi winged transport aircraft taxis on an airfield. An early bi wing single engine aircraft in flight over an airfield. Aerial views of a European city. An early model single engine bi winged transport aircraft lands. People disembark from an early model passenger aircraft. Animated map of Europe depicts air routes from London to Paris, Manchester and Berlin. People near an early model bi plane. Passengers board and cargo is loaded into the aircraft. Comical scene as a pig is loaded into a Farman Goliath early model liner. A man and the pig look out of the windows of the aircraft. Animated airline routes over a map of Europe. Men load cargo in an early model Spad commercial bi plane.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. A map of the United States with a caption that reads 'Commercial Air Lines Carrying Air-Mail Merchandise and Passengers'. The map is animated with a line from New York to San Francisco. Different places are highlighted on the map.
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