Photograph of the Wright Flyer at a museum in Detroit, Michigan. Wilbur Wright flies a glider. Various photographs of the Wright Flyer during flight and preparing to land.
Depicts contribution of Wright brothers in development of airplanes. Old French bi-planes fly in parallel. Orville and Wilbur Wright brothers discuss with other man. Glider dragged of hill flies steadily. Wilbur attaches wheel beneath wing. First heavier than air plane takes off at Kitty hawk North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Headlines of news paper about the event. Wilbur Wright prepares to fly under French Government subsidy, at La Mans in France. Orville flies with a passenger in Fort Myers, Virginia for an Army acceptance demonstration in July 1909. Men on ground watch the sustained flight of the plane. Bi plane flies close to ground in an open field. Military officials near the hanger of the plane. Wright brothers inspect catapult rails. The plane towed out and put on catapult. Two men rotate propeller to start the plane. Men pull weight to catapult the plane. Wright flyer climbs and plane takes off.
German prisoners explain captured artillery pieces to Allied soldier in France during World War II. United States military truck being towed by a vehicle. Gliders land and are concealed by trees. Military trucks, ambulance and troops on the move.
Two planes tow two gliders and lift them off the ground in Lipa in Batangas province of Philippines. General Walter Kruger exits from a plane to visit the United States11th Airborne Division and Major General Joseph Swing greets him. The two officers talk to each other.
Lieutenant General Charles H. Gardner, Major General Joseph M. Swing and General Pearson inspect a glider and a C-46 plane at Lipa airstrip in Philippines.
Gliders in flight at a contest at the Wasserkuppe hill in Germany. A biplane pilot seated on a platform between the wings operates the rudders and fin controls. Two Fokker sailplanes in flight and land. Several men unload a disassembled Fokker sail plane. A Fokker biplane being launched by a rope and men during its first trials. Men stand around a wrecked biplane. Several men assist the Fokker sailplane as it becomes airborne.
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