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1923 - 1935 US Army Aviation 25018-06 | Footage Farm

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[US Army Aviation 1923 - 1935]
GCS formation of huge 3-wing Handley Page aircraft overhead. GOOD.
14:54:58  Title:  Airmail:  Loading mail bags; President Wilson talking to Maj Fleet before first service.  Loading mail   from truck; take off of DH4 aircraft.  Title:  Forest Patrol:  Aerial over forest fires, smoke rising. 14:55:47  Title:  Exploration.  Crowd around aircraft, pilots holding dogs near aircraft:  "Alaska Flying Expedition, Nome Alaska to New York City. Pilot C.E. Crumrine, J.E. Long mechanic."  
14:56:05  Title:  Transcontinental.  CS of first Army Air Service non-sto; 02-03May23 by Macready & Kelly, MS; plane, Fokker in flight.  Pilot & crowd  around plane.  23Jun24  Lt. Russell Maughan first dawn-dusk flight Curtiss P-6 take off, NYC - San Francisco.
14:56:49  Title:  Around the world.  1924 crowd at airfield w/ US flag hanging in frame.  Army biplanes take off from Seattle.  Animated map showing location of Maj Frederick F. Martin in Aleutian Islands.  Aerial of three Douglas seaplanes in flight.  Map w/ route around world; men being congratulated after flight.  Eisenhower (?)
14:58:19  Title:  Speed.  Lt James Doolittle & his Army Curtiss Seaplane racer, winner 1925 Schneider Trophy   14:58:32  Title:  Goodwill.  1926 Pan-American flight.  President Coolidge congratulating.  TRANSOCEANIC:  Pilots, observer animated map of route, Oakland to Hawaii.  Aerial,  Fokker C-2. 37) Animation of flight start from Oakland, California to Hawaiian Islands.
14:59:30  ENDURANCE:  Fokker C-2 Question ? / Mark taxiing & taking off;  refueling by Douglas C-1 aircraft in flight.  Pan, CU of five men Ira Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Halverson, Quesada & Hooe.
15:00:12  Title: Mercy.  CS stowing food supply cargo into bomb bay of B-2 Curtiss Condors & pilots briefed on mission; drop supplies to American Indians over snow covered terrain & Indians distributing.
15:00:55   Devastated towns from tornado; patient on stretcher into C-15 ambulance plane & taking off.  Aerial flooded areas, cattle & people on hills receive dropped packages from B-12 bombers.  
15:01:58  Title:  Survey.  Row of Martin B-12 take off lead by Hap Arnold, CU.  Aerial over Washington D.C. 
15:02:38  Title:  Altitude.  11Nov35 stratosphere flight by Albert Stevens, cupola from building & equipment attached; balloon being inflated at night.  Gondola attached to National Geographic Society Army Air Corp. balloon & lifting off thru trees.  Aerial in flight (brief).  Instruments checked on landing.
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