A film titled 'Lieutenant Foulois and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight. Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia and return'. Orville Wright along with Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois prepares to make first cross country flight. They climb into the seat of the plane. Men aboard plane.
U.S. President Richard Nixon arrives at Fort Smith, Arkansas to watch a football game between Texas and Arkansas at Razorback Stadium. Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller welcomes President Nixon at the airport and invites him to the speaker's podium. President Nixon speaks from the speaker's podium on the airport ramp and addresses the welcoming crowd. The U.S. Air Force One aircraft parked behind him. President Nixon expresses his good wishes for Christmas. The crowd cheers. President Nixon raises an American flag and gets into a helicopter to fly to Fayetteville for the game.
World's first floating nuclear power station aboard Liberty ship in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Nuclear reactor as a man works on it. Men conduct final tests on equipment at the plant.
U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley arrives at Fort Bliss in Texas. An airplane lands at Biggs Army Airfield. Secretary Hurley greets his sister and friends at the airfield. He stands with Major General William Booth. Cars parked along the side of a street. Hurley stands with other officials near a car. The officials salute. Troops of U.S. 1st Cavalry Division walk past in front of them. Hurley reviews the troops.
XB-36 first flight on August 8, 1946, at Fort Worth, Texas, with Convair Chief test pilot Beryl Erickson and copilot Gus Green, at the controls. The XB-36 flying over airfield, with landing gear extended. Views from side and below. Views from above, from the side, from below and from the rear, as it flies some distance from the field, with gear still extended. XB-36 on final approach crossing a river, and touching down on first part of runway as it lands.
The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)