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Frido W. Kessler's rocket-propelled mail plane launches on frozen lake Greenwood, New York, United States, 1936

Frido W. Kessler and his rocket-propelled mail plane. (Allegedly, the first scheduled mail-delivery rocket flight) Kessler is seen in his workshop with his test stand and apparatus. Launch of Kessler's first winged liquid-fueled (liquid oxygen and Kerosene) mail rocket plane on frozen Greenwood Lake, New York, February 23,1936. Launch team opens the nose to insert mail into the rocket-propelled glider plane (reportedly designed by German rocket pioneer Dr. Willy Ley). Kessler poses with a little girl, Gloria Schleich Quackenbush, for whom the plane is named. She holds a silver cup of snow. They are surrounded by a cluster of men. Photographic equipment is set up next to them. The girl, Gloria, empties the cup of snow onto the tail of the rocket plane, to Christen it "Gloria (I)." Launch team fueling the rocket from containers. A technician in fireproof protective suit lights fuel at tail of the plane. It flares up in flames and then settles down with normal rocket burn, and leaves the launch stand. (A second rocket plane is seen sitting on the ice near the launch stand.) The rocket glider only goes about 20 feet before falling onto the ice. Team members look over the stand and prepare to try again with Kessler's second plane, the "Gloria (II)." They load the mail (6000 letters and postcards) into the nose and set the plane on the launch stand. It launches very nose high, and strikes the ice near the stand. But the rocket motor continues to propel it across the ice until it takes off again and continues, a way in the air until flipping over and crashing on the ice. View of people surrounding the broken plane on the ice. (Note: The second attempt carried the Gloria II and its mail, about 2000 feet, far enough to cross the border from New York into New Jersey, constituting an interstate mail delivery, and making the letters and post cards worthy mementos of the event.)

Location: Greenwood Lake New York United States USA
Date: 1936, February 23
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675024424
A car driven on the road leading to the Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico.

A road leading to Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico. Clouds loom over the Magdalena Mountains ahead. A sign for Langmuir Laboratory. Dry fields on either side of the road. A car driven on the long straight road. A roadside sign reads: 'Cibola National Forest'. Trees flank the road.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031251
Mobile Test Station of the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory near the Cibola National Forest in New Mexico.

Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. Words, "Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory" on a trailer. An antenna near the sign. A U.S. National Forest Service sign for the Cibola National Forest. U.S. Air Force personnel climb into the Mobile Station and close the doors behind them.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031253
An antenna fastened with metal cables at the Mobile Test Station, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, New Mexico.

Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratoryon Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. Air Force personnel at controls. Movement of an indicator on the screen. Personnel shuts the door to a trailer of the Mobile Test Station. An antenna fastened with metal cables at the Station.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031255
Technicians make adjustments on laser machines and equipment at a Mobile Test Station in New Mexico.

Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratoryon Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico. U.S. Air Force personnel opens the door to part of the laser setup. The laser can be directed vertically into heavy clouds to break down atmosphere and cause lightning strikes. A civilian technician makes adjustments on part of the laser apparatus. He rotates a knob repeatedly. Another technician rotates a knob on a Laser Machine.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031256
Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico.

Laser induced lightning experiments conducted by Electromagnetic Hazards Group at the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory Mobile Test Station on Mt. Baldy, Colfax County, New Mexico, and at nearby Langmuir Laboratory. View of South Baldy mountain and a tower or observatory of the Langmuir Laboratory. Dark clouds over a hill. Laser equipment. Two balls taped onto a wooden stand.

Location: New Mexico United States USA
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031271
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