Activities at the U.S.First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. A Spad XIII biplane fighter is parked in front of a canvas hangar, containing two French airplanes (painted with blue-white-red tail fin flashing). Mechanics pull the prop through on the Spad but have trouble starting it. Two of them take turns and finally get the engine started. A group of mechanics and soldiers push a Spad XIII up to and into a tattered Bessoneau hangar with an officer supervising. Row of Salmson 2A2s in background.
Opening scene shows animated map of northern part of the earth, centered on the North Pole. It depicts the shortened flight paths between various parts of the Soviet Union, and the United States via polar routing, representing bombing threats. The Soviet Red flag flying on a flag pole. A large number of Soviet Tupolev Tu-2 bomber aircraft parked at an airfield. (They are equipped with four-bladed AV-9VF-21K variable pitch propellers.) Aerial view of several Russian Tu-2 aircraft in flight. Closeup of aircraft's twin tail showing dihedral angle between them, as viewed from tail of the aircraft. View of military parade in Red Square, Moscow. Numerous open army trucks, filled with Soviet troops, drive in formation. In a closeup, the Soviet State Museum building dominates the background. Closeup of Georgi Malenkov (who was named premier and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, upon the death of Joseph Stalin, in March 1953). He reviews the parade from the Kremlin. Soviet Secret Police Chief, Lavrentiy Beria, stands beside him. Army motorcycle troops pass in formation. Lenin Mausoleum and Kremlin Walls in background. Closeup of Soviet military veterans in civilian clothes, with medals, watching the parade. More troops in open trucks. They pass large posters of Lenin and Stalin. Closeups of Soviet civilians including women and children. A group of Asian persons watching the parade. View from a high point overlooking Red Square showing lines of army trucks snaking around both sides of St. Basil's Cathedral, as they leave the square, past Lenin's Tomb. Closeup of Soviet soldiers saluting with rifles as they pass reviewing stand. Their truck is towing a field howitzer equipped with two tires on each axle. Closeups of several towed howitzers. Scene shifts to Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States, where army jeeps and artillery pieces maneuver on the city streets, in preparedness exercises during the Cold War. A woman hanging laundry out to dry on a line. Artillery being placed in a vacant lot near a residential neighborhood. A woman looks out her apartment window at the gun being placed in the lot. Soldiers uncover it, revealing a 120 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun. Young boys watch the activity from a backyard, where clothes are on a line to dry. The soldiers erect a radar antenna on a fire control trailer. Two women watch the activity from their apartment window. Closeup of the gun installed and ready. A radar antenna rotating in the field. A battery of several antiaircraft guns installed in the field. Cars and pedestrians on busy streets and sidewalks in the city. Children playing on monkey bars in a park. Distant view of military temporary buildings and guns installed near apartment buildings. An alarm clock. A rotating radar antenna. A civilian asleep in his bed. A soldier steps from his unit's orderly room and blows a whistle. The disturbed civilian in bed looks at his clock reading 5:30 AM and expresses disgust. He is next seen with friends, registering a complaint with an Army Captain in his office, who agrees to resolve the matter. An Army Officer is seen standing at a large chalk board explaining how and why anti aircraft guns are being installed across the area, as civilians watch and listen to his explanation
Soldiers of the 36th Infantry Division, their shoulder badges clearly visible, in central France during World War 2. The soldiers at the front. They sit behind knolls and in foxholes. A soldier watches through binoculars. Others holding rifles are seated. Signalmen fix telephone wires. Smoke rises from bursting of shells from behind the lines. A road behind the front. A Sherman tanks moves past. The tank is driven up and a GI gets aboard. The soldiers watch as the tank moves past. Trees in the area. Soldiers standing around and sitting on roadside watch as tanks move past. Smoke rises from busting of shells in the field below. The soldiers look at the smoke. GI relaxes next to road sign for Baudoncourt 2km.
Crew work on Howard Hughes' rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft, before his speed record setting flight from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1936. View of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft from tail. Scene changes to interior of a Chicago restaurant where Howard Hughes is having lunch with a friend. He stands, preparing to exit and fly, with the goal of having dinner in Los Angeles the same day. Airport terminal buildings in background as Hughes pilots the aircraft, and taxis before takeoff. View of the aircraft after take off and in flight overhead. It set a new speed record, reaching Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, and traveling at 215 mph.
United States Army Air Force Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft photographed from another airplane as it performs aerobatic maneuvers in World War 2. The P-40 seen close to the camera plane, as it peels off and dives. Later it is seen at a distance, performing loops, rolls, and other aerobatics. It flies low over a building of the Curtiss Aircraft Company Plant #2 at the Buffalo Airport.
U.S.Seaplane operations during World War 1. Curtiss F-5L seaplane being moved out of a hangar. Several Curtiss HS-2L seaplanes being launched from the shore by teams of sailors who use long lines to retrieve rolling dollies after the seaplanes float. Crew starts engines on a flying boat which then taxis out in the water. The seaplane has three propellers (one a pusher) and a triple box tail (similar to later Curtiss NC series seaplanes). View from above of the flying boat in flight with gunner visible in front cockpit. View from below of a Curtiss HS-2L seaplane dropping a bomb. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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