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Newspaper headlines Wilbur Wright sustained demonstration flight in France.

Headline of the newspaper 'New York American' reads 'Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk, Flies 2.17 miles in 106 seconds'. Pictures of the Wright Model A Flyer under the headlines. Wright Model A Flyer being readied for flight at the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France. A horse-drawn wagon pulls the flyer into a field. Crew of men pull rope to raise a launching weight in a tower. The plane is catapulted along a rail and into the air, when the men release the weight. Spectators in a grandstand look through binoculars. Louis Bleriot is seen. Views of the Wright plane in flight, where it attained an altitude of 360 feet.

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044880
U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft from VT-15 in formation flight over the Pacific during World War II.

A flight of three U.S. Navy TBF Avenger aircraft from VT-15 on USS Essex are seen in formation flight in the Pacific theater during World War 2. (Note: sequence ends with extraneous narration and glimpse of bomb burst at night over German target in World War II, Europe.)

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1944
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044903
Large number of British AVRO Lancaster four engine bombers with engines running at an airfield in Britain, during World War II.

Many four engine British AVRO Lancaster bombers with engines running as they prepare to depart from the UK on a nighttime bombing mission over Germany, during the 2nd World War.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044906
Crowd celebrates Victory in Europe (VE Day) on Wall Street, in Manhattan, New York City, May 8, 1945

Women in a street in United States. United States miniature flag on poles. Showering of ticker tapes. Mass of women standing in a street as they cheer the end of World War 2 in Europe.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044927
Douglas Skyrocket research aircraft taking off during initial testing in 1948

Douglas D558-2 Skyrocket research aircraft, built for the U.S. Navy, is seen taking off from Muroc Army Airfield (AKA Edwards Air Force Base). in first test flight, piloted by Douglas test pilot, John F. Martin. It makes gradual ascent passing low over the camera. In this first flight it is powered by a Westinghouse J34-40 turbojet engine. (After early flights with the jet engine, it would re-powered by a rocket engine.)

Location: California USA
Date: 1948, February 4
Duration: 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044934
Ceremony at Boeing-Wichita plant, Kansas, marking delivery of the 1000th B-29 to the Army Air Force.

U.S. Army Air Force Major General Curtis Lemay, a civilian, and a four-star Air Force General (Barney McKinney Giles?) check their watches as they wait to formally accept the one thousandth B-29 aircraft from the Boeing Wichita, Kansas manufacturing plant during World War 2. Many persons from news media are seen with microphones set up at edge of ramp. Large crowd is gathered but only the edge of crowd is seen. The awaited B-29 taxis slowly toward the assembly after production completion and parks with engines running.

Location: Wichita Kansas USA
Date: 1945, February 14
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044939
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