Safety planes in Guggenheim Aircraft Competition. Aircraft on the field. Pilots in cockpit. The plane takes off. Burnelli CX-3 in flight. A guard tower in the background. Other plane in the field. A British entry, the Handley Page H.P. 39 "Gugnunc" with slotted wing seen on the airfield. It takes off. Other plane takes off.
Inventor Vincent Burnelli exhibits latest safety airplane in Roosevelt field in New York. The Burnelli GX-3 (also called the Uppercu-Burnelli UB-SS) is seen on the airfield. Pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. Houses in the background. The plane takes off and is seen in flight.
An American plane, the Curtiss Tanager, wins the safety prize in the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft competition in New York, where various experimental aircraft designs competed. The Curtiss Tanager aircraft on the airfield after winning. People cheer and applaud. A man talks to the owner of the winning plane. He gives him a check. Demonstration of the plane activities. The Curtiss Tanager seen taking off and in flight in the sky. The plane lands on the field.
Sea plane Dornier Do X leaves hangar for a test flight in Altenrhein, Switzerland. Aircraft on airfield. Men stand on the field. Six pairs of motors on the flying boat lift the plane from water. Plane flies in the sky during a test flight where it carried a 48 ton load aloft for 1.75 hours.
United States Army aircraft drop bombs on older, obsolete biplanes in San Antonio, Texas during U.S. Army demonstration by 3rd Attack Group. Officer states it is the first time in history there has been a demonstration of pilots attacking a hostile aerodrome by airplane. Pilots and officer near bomber aircraft parked on airfield. They appear to be Curtiss P-1 Hawk aircraft. The bomber aircraft fly in sky. Smoke in the field due to bombardment. A officer watches the bombardment through binoculars. Heavy smoke arises in the field due to the continuous bombardment. A plane destroyed in the field.
Nazi German Luftwaffe aircraft in hangar during World War II. German officers looking up. A group of Luftwaffe dive bomber aircraft in flight. A pair of Henschel Hs 123 dive bombers in flight. German float plane aicraft (with pontoons) in flight. Bomber aircraft parked on an airfield with engines and propellers running simultaneously. German tanks climbing platform and in the forest. A tank knocks down a tree and climbs down. German Kriegsmarine sailors turning their heads and leave. The launch of German Bismarck-class battleship Tirpitz a year earlier in 1939. The Tirpitz is seen sliding down the slipway at her launch in Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven. The Tirpitz at sea and views of its guns. Next scene shows interior of an munitions factory or warehouse with stockpiles of shells and ammunition for the war effort. German soldiers marching and workers operating machine inside a forging factory.
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