Film shot during the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) Alaska Flight of 1934. View from a YB-10 aircraft flying over snowy mountains in Alaska. Perspective of the cameraman inside the YB-10. Downward view of mountains covered in deep snow. Some mountains at lower elevations with streams flowing down their slopes. Cumulus clouds obscuring the ground and interfering with the photo-mapping mission for the photograpers. Cloud capped Mount McKinley (aka Denali) seen off the aircraft wing at a distance of 75 miles.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo squadron maneuvers. A number of Patrol Torpedo Boats underway. One of the Patrol Torpedo Boat takes a sharp turn in front of other boats advancing in a line. A trainee named Smith operates a gun on a boat and shoots a target in the air.
An exhibition of Électricité de France (EDF) in Paris, France. A large crowd gathers. A woman demonstrates an electro-magnetic field. A tray is suspended in mid-air. A man takes off his glasses in disbelief. Eggs are fried on the electro-magnetic tray. People watch and eat eggs cooked from an electro-magnetic tray.
Construction of the Crocodile Highway Pile Bridge in Wesel, Germany during World War II. Bulldozers and a pile driver move down a hill towards the site of the newly constructed bridge. Soldiers lay down logs in proper order for the flooring of the bridge. They nail the floor of the bridge under construction. The soldiers use air hammers to nail down. Few other soldiers carry pile towards the construction bridge site. A pile driver moves along a road at the newly constructed bridge site. A roller rolls down the ground and levels it for the bridge construction.
An air power show in the United States. A man seated in the cockpit of an airplane. The airplane taxis. Other men standing nearby. The wings of the aircraft get damaged. Buildings in the background.
Early historic flight attempt at an air power show in the United States. A man with huge cardboard wings strapped to his back (an ornithopter aircraft contraption) runs on a field trying to take flight. The man jumps off a rock and falls on his face.
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