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| REEL 1: 01:01:05;03 Historical transportation footage of a wagon train on the Santa Fe Trail in 1849, Head-on image of a fast moving passenger train, Image of a Beechcraft C-45 flying over New York City in the late 1930s, Image of a 4-funnel Ocean Liner underway. The fast 4-stackers were called Ocean Greyhounds. 01:03:41;20 Title Card Reads: “An Airplane flew from New York to Paris in sixteen hours and thirty-eight minutes”. Leaving from Floyd Bennett Field on July 10, 1938, Howard Hughes and his crew set this record in a modified Lockheed 14 Lodestar aircraft with USA on the tail. The New York-to-Paris France was the first leg of a planned around-the-world air voyage (flight) by Howard Hughes. Image of a Lockheed 14 Lodestar plane with USA painted on tail taking off and in flight. 01:04:50;25 CU aerial view of five (5) Curtiss-Martin NBS-1 bombers in flight. 01:05:20;15 Image of Wilbur Wright (on left) with two men. CU image of Orville Wright. 01:06:12;05 Image of first glider built by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Image of second glider which was nearly twice as large as the first one was built by the Wright Brothers. Their improved machine in 1902 made about 1000 glides from Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk North Carolina. 01:07:42;03 The Wright brothers built their own motor and plane in Dayton, Ohio and re-assembled the plane in 1903 at their hangar and living quarters at Kitty Hawk. December 17, 1903 at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk North Carolina Orville Wright made the first successful attempt of man to fly a heavier-than-air, power driven machine. 01:08:54;01 From 1903 to 1908 the Wright Brothers made many successful flights. Image of a flight made by the Wright Brothers. Shows balloon used to estimate height or altitude of flight. 01:09:23;00 Footage of Wilbur Wright's flight at Le Mans, France on August 8, 1908. Newspaper headline reads “Wright Glides In Air As A Hawk; Flies 2.17 miles in 106 Seconds”. 01:09:44;07 Wheels are attached to plane and plane is towed to take-off area. The two 25-horse power motors are cranked by hand. After 1904 the Wright “flying machine” was catapulted by a falling weight from a rail. Shows men hauling up the weight that catapulted the plane from the rail. 01:11:46;12 Shows large gathering of French men and women on October 3, 1908 that witnessed Wilbur Wright remaining aloft with a French journalist for 55 minutes and 37 seconds. Newspaper headlines reads “Wright In New World Record, Carries Passenger 36 Miles”. On November18, 1908 at Le Mans France Wilbur Wright made a world's altitude record by rising 360 feet as noted by stationary balloons. 01:15:18;10 Wilbur Wright delivers first plane to the U.S. Government for trial flights at Ft. Meyers, Virginia. Shows early plane hangar. REEL 2: 01:17:15;06 In the group watching the Wright plane being removed from tis early plane hangar was Secretary Taft, Major Squier, Major Saltzman, and Lt. Lahm, that became the first military passenger in a Wright built airplane. 01:18:16;04 Lt. Lahm and Orville Wright set world's endurance record of one hour, twelve minutes and forty seconds. Lt. Foulous and Orville Wright make the first cross country flight; Fort Myers to Alexandria Virginia and return. 01:20:03;17 In 1909 Wilbur Wright demonstrated his invention (airplane) before the King of Italy and Italian Government officials. During these flights the first motion pictures were made from an airplane. 01:21:19;25 Among the most successful competitors of the Wrights was Henri Farman. Farman's plane as it appeared in 1908. Shows a flight made by Farman at Issy-les-Moulineaux France early 1908. 01:22:24;19 Shows Louis Bleriot, distinguished French aviator, and first man to fly the English Channel July 25, 1909 piloting one of his airplanes. 01:23:08;17 Shows Glenn H. Curtiss, another American pioneer of aviation at Reims France. 01:24:03;01 Shows Lincoln Beachey, first man to “stunt” an airplane. Shows early days of “wing walkers” and “dare-devils” transferring from one plane to another in mid-air. 01:25:27;01 Shows odd machines developed as rivals to the Wright biplane. 01:25:54;24 CU image of Orville Wright. Wilbur Wright (at left) born 1867, died 1912. 01:26:41;00 Aerial views, large airfield, rows and rows of early model aircraft parked on same. 01:26:49;05 Image of German Junkers G-38, 34-passenger aircraft taking off. Aerial view, large airfield rows and rows of aircraft parked wing tip to wing tip on same, possibly Italy. 01:27:06;25 Aerial shot, aircraft stunting in formation, group of ten doing loop the loop. 01:27:20;00 LS large building, Russian writing on side, hammer and sickle insignia large formation of Russian four engine bombers passing over the building. Aerial views, head-on, large formation of American type bombers and fighters flying towards camera. 01:28:04:23 In 1908 the Aero Club of France presented the wright Brothers a gold medal. CU image of the gold medal awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright. The same year they were presented a gold medal by the Aero Club, United Kingdom, Great Britain. CU image of the gold medal awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright. During same year the international Peace Society presented Wilbur and Orville Wright a gold metal. CU image of gold medal. In 1909 the Congress of the United States presented the Wright Brothers a gold metal. CU image of the gold medal. 01:29:14;28 Still photo group picture of the Wright Brothers, President Taft and other VIPs. 01:30:33;22 The Wilbur Wright Memorial at Le Mans, France was dedicated July 17, 1920. 01:30:45;11 Memorial marking the place of the first airplane flight is at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 01:31:13;21 On November 19, 1932 a memorial to Orville and Wilbur Wright was dedicated at Kitty Hawk North Carolina. |
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