Oemichen Helicopter testing with the aid of a gas bag. The French Helicopter is launched using balloons for additional lift. Plane rises short distant and then descends. Pilot sitting at controls of helicopter. Other testing of same helicopter showing action as plane swings back and forth like a pendulum, as the Pilot attempts to control it. Men holding the helicopter as it descends to prevent any accident. Testing of helicopter with gas bag lift, men hold on to helicopter and assist in controlling the helicopter.
Shows U.S. Army parachutists training on scaffold at Fort Benning in Georgia. Parachutists practice hanging and landing techniques while the high rank officers watch them. Parachutists boarding aircraft C-47. Aircraft taking off and practice jumps. Parachutists jumping, one after the other.
Flying cadets marching. View of Pan American Airway's civilian instructor teaching navigation using compass and view of cadets making notes. Cadets board consolidated flying boat to study compass. Student cadets and Army Officers outside a building.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Lend-Lease Act in the White House during World War 2. He later signs bill approving first transfer of war material. U.S. Ambassador John D. Winant greeting King George VI of England. Shows four old American destroyers entering British Harbor as a part of Lend-Lease plan and Navy Department Munitions Building in Washington D.C.
Omaha Class U.S. cruisers at sea. B-17 D Flying Fortesses lined up to take off. A B-17 D Flying Fortess takes off. Flying Fortess in formation with close up of engine and spinning propellers. PT boats (patrol torpedo boats) under construction at factory. PT boat at sea. Formation of PT boats at sea. Narrator notes that all equipment is bound for England as part of the Lend Lease Act. USA flag superimposed over signature page of the Lend Lease Act.
Aircraft workers working in Stearman Plant at Wichita. Shows Major Harris, U.S. Army Air Corps, accepting delivery of 1000 PT-17 planes from J.E.Schaefer in Stearman Plant. Shows major boarding aircraft which takes off and aircrafts flying overhead.
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