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Helicopter Travel In Rio A Solution To Traffic Congestion
Mid Shot, helicopters on Sugarloaf Mountain helipad. Tourists go on helicopter rides from Sugarloaf Mountain to view the city of Rio de Janeiro from above. Helicopter tours of Rio de Janeiro are a very popular tourist attraction, as it...
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Inventor Igor Bensen tests flying boat at Cypress Garden, FL
Title: "A Boat That Flies!" superimposed over boat being towed along water / MS boat on beach, people around boat / MS Igor B. Bensen, aviation inventor and President of the Bensen Aircraft Corp., Raleigh-Durham Airport, placing...
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Lieutenant Commander James Verdin's Douglas F4D Skyray breaks speed record
Title card: "US Again Jet Leader! Navy Plane Sets Record" / Lt. Cmdr. James Verdin smiles and waves from the cockpit of the Skyray; its star insignia / Photographers working with striped tents, naval officers, and civilians / a shirtless...
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World War II: Canada
Title card: "Canada Carries On!" superimposed over Canadian soldiers marching and men in factories working / World War II / military planes flying toward camera / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / movie title /...
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Soviet embassy in Washington, DC throws lavish party for 35th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Title: "Washington -- Curtain Lifted for Party at Red Embassy" over black then superimposed over cake with hammer and sickle on it / MS EXT Soviet Embassy / MS Soviet flag flying on embassy / CU embassy plaque / high angle servers put...
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Supersonic research jet "Skyrocket" from Edwards Air Force Base in California flies at twice the speed of sound
Card: "Paramount News Issue No 31" / title "How it was done, flight at twice the speed of sound" superimposed over shot from plane of "Skyrocket" in flight / two shots of test pilot Scott Crossfield walking alongside Douglas D-588-2...
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Pilot Apollo Soucek flies Naval Aircraft Factory PN-12 seaplane
Person leans into cockpit of a PN-12 seaplane with propellers spinning / men standing around small barometer / men in suits watch man enter cockpit / CU Navy pilot Apollo Soucek dons leather helmet and enters cockpit / VS airplane takes...
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An early Wright Brothers airplane flight
VS Wright Brothers' plane takes off, flies over muddy field, possibly in Le Mans, France, in 1908 / Note: exact month/day not known
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Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt board plane for night flight
NIGHT MS aviator Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in front of Eastern Air Transport Curtiss Condor airplane, both wearing evening wear; SOT Earhart asks Roosevelt to go for an airplane ride over Washington and SOT...
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Polar explorers Richard Byrd, Lincoln Ellsworth, Bernt Balchen plan expeditions
Two-shot Adm. Richard Byrd with man / LS Byrd expedition flagship SS Jacob Ruppert at dock / high angle Byrd walks on board ship / man plays with sled dogs on board ship / WS Lincoln Ellsworth's parked airplane marked "…Transatlantic...
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World War II: learning to fly blind
World War II / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / British Commonwealth Air Training Plan / pilot training / simulation learning to fly and land blind (without instruments) / CU instructor / CU pilot / CU Lorenz beam...
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World War II: pilot training
World War II / Allies propaganda film, "Wings of Youth", from Canada / British Commonwealth Air Training Plan / plow horses being used to pull airplane / row of planes with propellers moving / armed soldiers marching / CU pilot / pilot...
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Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic Society presents Anne Lindbergh with Hubbard Medal
Group shot of National Geographic Society men and Anne Lindbergh holding medal / CU Society president Gilbert Grosvenor and Lindbergh holding Hubbard Gold Medal / CU text and design on medal side / Grosvenor presents medal, other members...
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Maiden flight of Goodyear single-seater inflatable airplane in Akron, Ohio
Title: "Inflate-It-Yourself Airplane Makes Maiden Flight" superimposed over airplane taking off / station wagon with inflatable airplane sticking out of back pulls into snow-dusted field / three men lift and carry airplane from station...
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R.A.F Group Captain Peter Townsend arrives in England
Title Card: "Capt. Townsend Arrives From Brussels" / WS plane on airfield / CU Group Captain Peter Townsend, air attache in Brussels, Belgium, former equerry to the queen who has been romantically linked with Princess Margaret / Follow...
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French female pilot Jacqueline Auriol sets new air speed record in Paris
Title: "Paris - Mme. Auriol Tops Women's Air Mark" superimposed over Jacqueline Auriol walking down steps of Dassault Mystere IV fighter jet / high angle planes parked on airfield / MS Auriol walks up metal stairs and steps into plane...
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WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) graduate in December 1944
VS Jacqueline Cochran, director of Women Pilots Army Air Forces at podium with microphones, other military officers on stage / VS women receive their diplomas and wings from Cochran and General Henry 'Hap' Arnold, commander general of...
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World War II: action in the Pacific
[Video unstable at times] World War II / Pacific theater / military ships and aircraft carriers at sea / military planes in flight / American insignia on plane taking off from aircraft carrier / ships firing / anti-aircraft guns firing /...
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Dedication of the Kill Devil Hills Monument for the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hills, NC
US Secretary of War Patrick Hurley shakes hands with Orville Wright in front of microphone / Wide shot Kill Devil Hills Monument (later renamed Wright Brothers National Memorial) with people standing at base / aviator Ruth Nichols...
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Survivors of an airplane ditching arrive in San Francisco
Title card: "San Francisco - Survivors Greeted After Epic Ocean Rescue" / Coast Guard Cutter USS Ponchartrain steams into the harbor as people on land celebrate / The ship pulls into the dock with civilians // (VO an explanation of how...
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Republic F-84F Thunderstreak breaks the record in coast to coast speed flying
Title Card: "Los Angeles to New York Under 4 Hours!" superimposed over plane landing / DeSiena-Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y.: Record breaking Republic F-84F "Thunderstreak", U.S. Army jet fighter-bomber, landing // Los Angeles,...
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World War I airplanes are used to combat budworms responsible for the destruction of forests in New Brunswick
Title: "Woodland Blight - Aerial Daredevils in 'Battle of the Budworm'" superimposed over planes dusting forest / Aerial pan airfield in forest / MS men climbing into RCAP helicopter / CU pilot looking out / CU Angle shot of helicopter...
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USAF fighter jet in flight over US firing new "Mighty Mouse" Mk 4 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket rockets
Title "First pictures: 'The Mighty Mouse,' Aerial rocket for jet interceptors " superimposed over rocket hitting plane on ground and exploding / jet flying overhead / two photos of airman loading rocket into rocket launcher under parked...
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Demonstration in Philadelphia of new US Army turbine-powered helicopter, Piasecki YH-16A "Turbo Transporter"
Card: "Paramount News issue no 33" / title "'Turbo Transporter,' Huge craft in first public showing" superimposed over helicopter hovering above ground / people walking up to parked helicopter and walking up ladder into it / shot of rear...