U.S. Army Air Cadets arriving at Randolph Field in Texas, after primary training. New cadets in hooded Link trainers are taught by way of blind flying. Cadets learning difficult air maneuvers. Aircraft BT-14s in flight and taxiing. BT-14s in flight. (World War 2 era.)
Views of conveyor system in use at Bell Aircraft Plant, Niagara Falls. War production workers inspecting and working with aircraft moving on belt. Bell P-39 Airacobra taking off. Views of Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight. (World War 2 era war production effort.)
Shows mechanical assembly line at Vultee Plant for production of warplanes in World War 2. Views of workers working at the Plant. Aircraft parts are conveyed through sites at which operations are performed in mechanized assembly line.
Douglas B-19 aircraft taxiing for test flight and large crowd watching its first test flight. B-19 landing. Major Stanley Umstead, Commander of B-19 crew, walking with others and talking with a cigar in his mouth. (World War 2 era.)
Shows barrage balloons sent aloft, tethered with metal cables. Barrage balloons in sky and being tested at Wingfoot Lake, Ohio. (World War 2 period.)
Chief of Air Corps Ferrying Command Colonel Robert Olds talking to pilots. Shows American planes, Lockheed Hudson taking off and in flight to Canada. Royal Air Force officer examining map. American bomber plane B-24s taking off and flying to England for use by British forces as part of lend-lease program in World War 2. Point of view shot inside cockpit of B-24 aircraft flying low.
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