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A glider falls on ground injuring spectators during an air show in Saint-Germain, France.

An air show in Saint-Germain, France. Crack stunt fliers display their flying skills during the Air Show. A huge crowd of spectators watch the gliders in flight. One of the glider falls to the ground injuring spectators. People stand next to the damaged glider.

Location: Saint-Germain France
Date: 1939, June 5
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043539
A primary glider aircraft being flown in the United States

Slate reads: "How the Wrights learned to fly -- the motorless, man-carrying glider."A primary glider is seen, circa 1922. A group of people, at the top of a high hill, overlooking a valley, watch as the glider with skeleton frame,single high wing, and wheels, launches from the hilltop. It is operated by a single pilot who maneuvers it on a long flight toward the valley below.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1922
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049966
German troops fire at British parachutists and gliders in the Netherlands during World War II.

German troops fight the Allied forces in the Netherlands during World War 2. Animated map locates Arnhem and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. German troops fire at British parachutists and gliders as they descend from their transport aircraft. Afterwards they pursue and engage those who made it safely to the ground. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and downed gliders. Burning gliders. Allied aircraft shot down and crashing. British prisoners of war seated in a group in a meadow.

Location: Netherlands
Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675061173
Launching of Wright Brothers' glider and aircraft in different places in Europe.

The history of aviation. A glider being launched from a hillside in Germany. The glider is parked. Several men stand nearby. The glider in flight overhead. The first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina on December 17, 1903. A still photograph of Wright Brothers' aircraft in flight. The pilot in a prone position while piloting the aircraft. Launching of Wright Brothers' aircraft in France on August 8, 1908. A launching tower, weight dropping and the take off of the aircraft are shown. Spectators in stands watch the air show. Headlines of a New York newspaper proclaim Wright's flight in France.

Location: Europe
Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070413
Glider rockets designed by German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling

Workshop of German rocket pioneer, Reinhold Tilling, in Ahrenshorst or at Osnabruck, Germany. Various models of his postal rockets (recoverable rocket for mail delivery) are seen in the shop. A sketch and stringed models show how the wings fold about the rocket for launching and unfold for gliding descent after the rocket has finished firing. Next, a number of similar-looking rockets or gliders are seen on the ground in a field. Their wings appear to fixed open. The closest one appears to have a radio antenna attached at its wing root. Several young men are occupied with one of the gliders on the ground. Another holds a kite. What is possibly a rocket launching tube sits on a tripod in the background. Closeup of one of the gliders on the ground. Change of scene shows a cylindrical solid fuel rocket on a tripod launcher. The rocket nose is shown without the lower portion. Next, the rocket is seen set up on a beach next to a body of water, where is is ignited and launches at a low angle, in a cloud of white smoke.

Location: Germany
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072677
Allied aircraft strafe German trains and buildings, view of allied gliders, troops invading beachhead during D-Day.

Gun camera footage shows allied fighters strafing targets in French countryside during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. Various vehicles, buildings and railway lines exploding as they are hit. German trucks being strafed by fighters. Aerial view of various railway lines, trains exploding due to strafing. Allied forces gliders on the ground. An Airspeed Horsa glider with “D-Day” invasion stripes. Two United States soldiers walk away from the Airspeed Horsa glider. British and United States soldiers unload supplies on the beach. More soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, walking down ramps from landing craft into water at beach. A tank and bulldozer drive up onto beach. Soldiers patrol the beach, with half-timbered Norman French houses in ruins on land. Famous shot of an Allied soldier collapsing on beach after being shot on the beach in Normandy during D-Day.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078802
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