Air Mail Service in the United States. Mail trucks at the center of an airfield. Aircraft, including De Havilland DH-4; Boeing Model 40; Curtiss JN-4 Jenny; Travel Air 5000 ; and Ford Ford 5-AT-B trimotor, parked in a circle around the mail trucks. Mail being transferred from a truck into empty front cockpit of a two-place biplane. The side of a truck reads 'Air Mail Service'. A Travel Air 5000 transport (CAA registry C2614, NAT'S No. 16) on the field. Side of the aircraft reads 'Nat U.S. Mail Express'. The aircraft taxis on the field. The aircraft takes off. Early model air mail aircraft in flight over a large city. Orville Wright seated and wearing a tuxedo. Orville Wright posing indoors, and then standing in front of a residence, with three young boys who hold balsa wood model gliders. The boys launch their wood gliders by means of rubber bands, with some help from Wright.
Earthquake in Peru, June, 1970. View from aircraft flying low over a beach. A U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command C-141 aircraft taxiing to park at an airfield, after landing. UH-1 helicopters being offloaded from the aircraft. A column of porters, carrying blue bags of relief supplies on their heads, proceed toward a helicopter. Helicopter taking off and dropping the supplies to people below. View of helicopter with its shadow below where a man is seen walking through a flooded field. Scene shifts to injured person being carried from helicopter on a stretcher. Scenes of destruction. Houses flattened and rubble in streets of Peruvian village.
Refueling of U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it lands at Sidi Slimane Air Base in Morocco. A rain covered parking ramp. A B-47 taxis in a heavy rain fall. Across an airfield men stand around in rain awaiting the arrival of the B-47. An airman directs the B-47 into a parking area. The aircraft being directed into the refueling station . An airman in the foreground give hand signals. Ground crewmen activity during the refueling and maintenance operations performed upon the aircraft when they land. A ground crew chief opens a door and attempts to lower a ladder, which is out of reach. A B-47 parked on taxi or maintenance strip. Heavy rains in the area. Activity around the aircraft as they are maintained after flight. A B-47 taxis into the refueling station. An airman attaches a refueling hoist to the aircraft. A flight line director uses a radio communications system during the maintenance operations. The flight line operator standing outside the aircraft talks to a person inside over a radio phone. A B-47 taxis into the maintenance area. Already stationary B-47s being maintained along the sector of the strip.
Preparations for D-Day Invasion of France during World War II. Four days before D-Day, U.S. gliders at a British base taxi and take off one after the other, towed by Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft. Insignia of the United States. A hangar in the background. The gliders in flight. They fly over an airfield in formation.
U.S. soldiers seated in a terminal area at Bien Hoa Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A TWA (Trans World Airlines) jet taxis to an unloading area at Bien Hoa Air Base. A soldier at the airfield with barracks bags kept near him. The TWA jet is stationary. Ground crewmen push aviation passenger stairs. A sign on the stairs reads 'Welcome Det 5 8 Aerial Port, Bien Hao Air Base, Republic of Vietnam'. A soldier at the air base with 'Concor' written on his helmet. U.S. airmen and soldiers get off from the aircraft. They assemble and sit in the terminal area. A close up of U.S. recruit Richard Gillispie with another soldier seated in chairs. Gillispie smiles.
Aerial view of an airfield in Dreux, France during World War II. Gliders parked on a field. A mass formation of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrains with double glider tow in flight..
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