A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
A plane parked on an airfield in Korea during the Korean War. General MacArthur and other officers get out of the plane. A reception committee in the foreground. Marine Colonel Chesty Puller interviewed by the correspondents. General OP Smith interviewed with Colonel Puller. Both of them talk. Large building in the background.
Features notables in early aviation history. Early aviation pioneers attend the first International Aviation Meet held at Rheims. An early model French aircraft taxis. Colonel Courzi seated in the cockpit of an early model aircraft. Plane in flight. Wilbur Wright gives a flying demonstration at International meeting. Louis Paulhan gives a demonstration of flight on his aircraft. Two aircraft fly around pylon. One piloted by Glenn Curtiss. Men sit in a car. Hubert Latham flies an aircraft. Louis Breguet crashes. People rush to the crash scene and cameramen take photographs. Louis Breguet standing near a car. Louis Bleriot in an airplane on the airfield. Louis Blériot looks out from the cockpit. Henri Farman in an aircraft. People observe air show.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh on an inspection tour of the new coast-to-coast express from Newark to Columbus. Lindbergh in the air mail aircraft cockpit as they fly over the Allegheny Mountains. He looks out at the grey clouds as they fly into a raging snow storm. Tree covered mountains. They fly over fields. Aerial views of landmarks in city in Columbus Ohio. View of airfield in Columbus. The plane lands at Columbus, Ohio after the test run. Colonel Lindbergh and his copilot, Robert S. Leroy (Bob Leroy), exit the plane and pose for the camera.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain during World War 2. A British soldier looks through binoculars and another soldier sits. A soldier on a tank. German aircraft in flight above the English Channel. The planes drop bombs on the British ships. Explosions in the water of the English Channel. Royal Air force (RAF) pilots are scrambled on alert and run towards their planes. The planes take off. British planes attack the German planes and engage in aerial dogfights. A German plane falls in the ocean. Damaged German plane. 180 more German planes put to attack. A pictorial representation shows the places in England attacked by Germany. Explosions on the ground. Various British Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft in the air and on the ground. German attacks on Southampton and British ports. German bomber aircraft dropping bombs on British airfields, but British aircraft seen hidden individually near farms and homes and not grouped together in order to evade destruction by German Luftwaffe bombing campaigns.
British defense against German aerial warfare in Battle of Britain. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier on a boat sees through binoculars. An aircraft lands on sea. German pilots are rescued and become British prisoners. Damaged German aircraft downed in Britain. Germans pause blitzkrieg campaign due to British Royal Air Force resistance. German soldiers shown having leisure time in their encampments. German military equipment idle. German long range artillery and rail guns attack England from a distance, firing over the English Channel. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses the people saying that Britain will win in the Battle of Britain, and Hitler is shown addressing the Reichstag and disagreeing with Churchill. German officers including Goering greet each other. They come out of a car. Various German bomber and attack aircraft take off again following an August 30 change in air war strategy by Goering and the Luftwaffe. British listening posts and control stations as well as fighter stations seen communicating, readying, and on high alert with anti-aircraft guns and RAF fighters to repel German attack. British spitfire aircraft take off to fight German Luftwaffe. A British soldier watches through binoculars. German aircraft drop bombs. View from inside German bomber nose position as it bombs a British airfield. A man blows a whistle in a British factory. British war production workers wear helmets and continue working at the munitions factory or ordnance factory during bombing air raid. Aerial view of British Spitfire pilots in dogfights shooting down German aircraft. British airplanes land and a pilot gives a report. He is asked, "Are you all right?" and he reports the German planes he downed.
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