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Aviators Howard Hughes and Amy Johnson after record-setting flights to Los Angeles, California and Cape town, South Africa, respectively.

American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1936, May
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034143
Princess Grace of Monaco with Prince Rainier visit Ireland.

Princess Grace of Monaco (née Grace Kelly) and husband Prince Rainier III arrive in Ireland for an official visit. Princess Grace steps down from an Aer Lingus air stair in Dublin Airport (Dublin Airport, County Dublin, Ireland). Prince Rainier and Princess Grace meet Irish officials. Irish people greet the Monegasque royal guests with flowers. As crowd look at them, the royal couple review a parade. Princess Grace and Prince Rainier leave the airport for Áras an Uachtaráin to meet Irish President Éamon de Valera.

Location: Ireland
Date: 1961, June
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034152
Queen Juliana reviews the Royal Netherlands Navy in Scheveningen, the Netherlands

Scene of Scheveningen pier (Strandweg 150-154, 2586 JW Den Haag, Netherlands), near The Hague. Queen Juliana talks with officers during review of Royal Dutch fleet, a less publicized arm of NATO in Scheveningen, Hague. People at esplanade. Ship moves on sea water. Radar on ship moves. Cadets on ship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën stand in salute position. Helicopter fly and Queen watch it. Planes pass and Queen Juliana watch the air and sea show with binoculars. Submarine and align ships in sea.

Location: Scheveningen Hague
Date: 1961, July
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034164
"Come September" is the first movie shown aboard an aircraft in flight at 30,000 feet in United States.

People board inaugural flight during which a movie is shown in flight -- the movie 'Come September' -- seen in the air at 30,000 feet in United States. Walter Slezak comes with movie reels in a case and talks to stewardess (flight attendants). He boards the aircraft flight that will show the first movie while in flight. Plane takes off. View from inside passenger airplane, looking through passenger windows, as aircraft taxis and lifts off during takeoff. Passengers in the plane as they put on earphones and draw the window shades closed. Passengers watch movie and eat snacks during the show aboard the aircraft. Slezak talks with a woman. Passengers clap.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1961, July
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034173
Civilians march during communist May Day Parade in East Berlin.

Civilians march and carry colorful banners during May Day Parade in East Berlin, East Germany. Balloons in the air.

Location: Berlin East Germany
Date: 1961, May 1
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034243
Use of artificial lightning equipment in Project Thunderstorm, and radar operations supporting project and its aircraft

Tug tows Northrop F-15 Reporter into hangar in Minneapolis, Minnesota to be instrumented for Project Thunderstorm. Various scenes of electrical equipment used in making man-made lightning, including a generator made up of hundreds of transformers, and a connected massive generator for producing high voltage. A large oscillograph is shown along with a smaller oscillograph designed for airborne use. A scientist is seen inside the giant generator. Artificial lightning tests are made on canopy of the F-15 occupied by a scientist, and the canopy remains intact following lightning strike. Lightning rods are attached to lightning-vulnerable nose, tail fin, and wing tip locations of the Project Thunderstorm aircraft. Pilot climbs into canopy of F-15. Airborne F-15 project aircraft seen in flight headed toward area of dark clouds. In Ohio at Clinton County Army Air Field, a project officer (AAF Captain) describes how search procedures of the pilot, weather observer, and radar observer are coordinated and key locations of radar and cooperating facilities at Jamestown and the Clinton County Army Airfield. Large radar antenna revolving on top of large tower, scanning for signs of thunderstorms. Radar antenna scanning vertically, near Quonset huts. Command center inside a quonset hut with project personnel at radar scopes and thunderstorm and aircraft positions plotted on large plexiglass screens. Technician adjust motion picture camera that photographs radar scopes every four seconds. Operator at vertical measuring instrument, showing reflected returns from targets, on July 18, 1947. View of operator at plan position indicator radar scope showing weather returns on June 6, 1947. Ground Control Approach (GCA) truck located near end of airfield to guide landings of Thunderstorm aircraft. Radio operators sitting at radar scopes inside the GCA unit. P-61 makes GCA approach and landing in good weather, to maintain skills needed when weather is bad. Briefing officer at blackboard cites radio channels to be used for various purposes. View of AAF aircrews in audience.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1947
Duration: 8 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034362
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