U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull talks about Pan American Conference. Secretary Hull during a press conference aboard USS Santa Clara. He talks about the Pan American Conference in Peru. An American delegate addresses the conference. Cordell Hull poses on the ship.
People ride vehicles in Palisades Park, New Jersey. A sign reads 'Big World Sensation'. People stand around a steel cage. Two men seated on a bike and a woman stands with her bicycle. They ride their motorcycle and bicycle inside a steel cage.
The Pulitzer Trophy Race at Mitchel Field in New York. A Curtiss R3C-1 in flight over Mitchel Field. The R3C-1 taxiing after landing. The number 43 painted on its fuselage. U.S. Army Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis in the cockpit of the R3C-1 after it stops. He climbs up and stands in the cockpit. Army airmen stand around him. Lieutenant Bettis sets a new record of 249 miles per hour.
The longest over water flight to date, accomplished by the U.S. Army Air Service in 1927. Chief of Army Air Service, Major General Patrick, standing between Pilot, Lt. Lester J. Maitland, and Navigator, Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger in front of their Fokker C-2-3 trimotor airplane, named the Bird of Paradise. General Patrick is wishing them farewell as they are about to depart on their transoceanic flight from Oakland California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Animation of aircraft leaving Oakland Airport. Fokker C-2-3 in flight. Animation of the longest over water flight ever attempted, 2400 miles, Oakland to Honolulu.
Chief of U.S. Army Air Service, Major General Patrick, stands between Navigator, Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger and Pilot, Lt. Lester J. Maitland as they are about to depart on their record-setting transpacific flight from California to Hawaii. Animation illustrates their route of flight from Oakland Airport to Honolulu,Hawaii, the longest flight ever attempted (2400 miles). Several views of their Fokker C-2 Trimotor aircraft called "Bird of Paradise,"in flight.
U.S Army Air Service bombing exercises using the former USS New Jersey (BB-16) anchored in Diamond Shoals North Carolina. A bomb strikes near the stern of the ship causing her to capsize and sink.
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