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Glider pulled by car mimics airplane navigation to train students
Title card: 'Learn flying in glider on auto, Greensburg, PA - Inventor Harry Traver explains newest device to train student pilots' / Harry Traver, in straw boater, speaking (no audio); behind, a seated teenage boy moves a joystick / car...
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US fighter plane lent to USSR has star painted over and takes off from Iranian airfield
MS two men stand in front of plane (possibly Curtis P-40 Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk) as a third man paints over American star insignia to better resemble Soviet red star / CU star being painted over / MS Soviet pilot wearing parachute,...
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Plane takes off in early 1910s
Pilot wears goggles and flight helmet as he sits in seat of small biplane, pulls levers / plane approaches, takes off / plane flies away into sky / plane comes in for landing / crowd surrounds front of plane / Note: exact year not known;...
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John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown are greeted with enthusiasm after completing first transatlantic flight in 1919
VS John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown are carried on the shoulders of an enthusiastic Irish crowd after they land in Ireland after making first transatlantic flight; Alcock wears civilian clothing and Brown wears military uniform /...
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Lewis Yancey pilots autogiro to Havana
Title card: "Pathe News Flies With Yancey on First Autogiro Hop Over Sea"; fade to title card: "Editor's Note - These exclusive pictures were taken on the historic Miami-Havana flight made by Captain Yancey and were filmed from the...
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Abbott, Pitcairn, and Ray with C.8W autogiro donated to Smithsonian
WS men stand on National Mall in "group photo" in front of microphone and in front of Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company C.8W autogiro aircraft; Smithsonian Institution Secretary Charles Abbott in dark suit, white hair and glasses; next to...
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Abbott, Pitcairn, and Ray with C.8W autogiro donated to Smithsonian
WS men stand in "group photo" on National Mall behind microphone and in front of C.8W autogiro aircraft; Smithsonian Institution Secretary Charles Abbott in dark suit, white hair and glasses; next to him is Harold Pitcairn, Founder...
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Peace Conference delegates and rescued aviators
Title card: "PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS - US Delegation on arms reduction hopeful of success at next meeting" / MS left to right: Sen. Claude Swanson (D-VA), Emma Wooley, Norman Davis in front of ship's railing / CU Swanson speaks / Title...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Self employed professionals protest against pension reform
Lawyers pilots and other self employed professionals gather outside the Opera in Paris before marching against the pension reform (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Sky News
Aerials of Bin Laden Family Plane Crash
CLEAN: Aerial shots of emergency services putting out fire from a plane crash at Blackbushe Airport, that killed members of the Bin Laden family on August 1, 2015 in Yateley, Hampshire.
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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower awards 1954 Harmon International Trophy to pilots Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran
President Dwight D. Eisenhower walks with Jacqueline Cochran on White House portico and down garden steps followed by four men including Major Chuck Yeager; they look at trophies on table / Close up cameramen film event / Medium shot...
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Several top US news stories of 1933
First film of a tornado forming / [9/2/1933] Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo's airplane struggles to lift off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City / rear shot WS the plane moves toward a bank of buildings and crashes the plane...
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Francesco de Pinedo loses control of his aircraft upon takeoff for transatlantic flight and is killed
Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo's airplane struggles to lift off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City / rear shot WS the plane moves toward a bank of buildings and crashes the plane explodes / MS the burning plane and black...
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Pilots stump for gubernatorial candidate F. Trubee Davison
Title card: "Famous Fliers Touring States for Davison - Balchen and Pangborn announce air campaign to aid candidate for Governor" / Bernt Balchen and Clyde Pangborn, noted aviators / Balchen speaks of obtaining American citizenship and...
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Scottish aviator Jim Mollison landing at airfield in Pennfield, New Brunswick, Canada, after transatlantic flight from Ireland
WS Jim Mollison's plane landing / crowd in bleachers / plane taxiing, crowd waiting / Mollison getting out of plane surrounded by crowd / two shots of Mollison surrounded by crowd talking to two newscasters with microphones
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Cleveland air show with crash and parachute escape, 1932
Biplanes flying formation / glider doing turns / autogiro doing stunts / boy toddler yelling / parachutist jumps from plane / parachutist landing / pilots, Al Wilson and John Miller, challenging each other / plane and autogiro in air...
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US Navy tests new "Pogo" airplane capable of vertical takeoffs and landings at Moffett Naval Air Station in CA
Airplane slowly landing inside hangar, propellers on nose spinning at Moffett Naval Air Station (later known as Moffett Federal Airfield) / airplane slowly taking off, cables from nose attached to ceiling / tilt down cables attached to...
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At Moffett Naval Air Station in California, US Navy tests new "Pogo" airplane capable of vertical takeoffs and landings
Close shot of pilot in cockpit of plane as it sits on floor of hangar at Moffett Naval Air Station (later known as Moffett Federal Airfield) / close shot of pilot in cockpit, ladder next to plane being moved away / propellers on nose of...
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Roscoe Turner flies
CU aviator Roscoe Turner / plane Gilmore Red Lion at Fort Benning airport / CU propellers / plane takeoff / Note: exact day not known
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Canadian government film "Wings of Youth" shows members of Royal Canadian Air Force undergoing training at start of WWII
Man turning propeller / close shot of pilot in cockpit / close shot of pilot's hand moving flight control stick / elevator and aileron on plane moving up and down / pilot in cockpit signaling / close shot of stop being removed from in...
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British pilot Amy Johnson Mollison speaks at air show
Planes taking off from airfield / spectators sitting in stands / planes in flight, buildings on ground below / spectators looking up / planes in flight stunting / spectators / plane rolling toward camera after landing; man running up to...
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Seaplane flown by aviator Charles Lindbergh with his wife Anne across Atlantic Ocean put in American Museum of Natural History in NY City
Title card: "Lindy's plane!" / overhead shot of men moving Lockheed Sirius seaplane "Tingmissartoq" flown by Charles and Anne Lindbergh into position on floor of museum / overhead shot of men standing around plane / various close shots...
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Pilots in US Army warplanes firing machine guns at targets on ground and on water near Miami
Two shots of man painting target while another man stands behind it / row of three planes flying low overhead, sound of machine guns firing / planes flying low over targets / bullets striking targets and ground near them / three planes...
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Roscoe Turner tests plane
CU propeller and motor on plane nose / pilot Roscoe Turner stands in front of plane, microphones on tripods to side, building in bg / plane taxiing, terminal building in bg / plane taking off / plane in flight / Note: exact month/day not...