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Soviet Airplane Towards North Pole 250001-59 | Footage Farm

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1937 - Soviet Airplane Towards North Pole; Toronto, Ont.; Port Washington, N.Y.]
01:50:58  Men fueling twin engine plane (converted Junkers K-37).  
CU detail of plane.  Pilot Chakalov talking w/ others; loading supplies, engines started & men waving, aircraft takes off on skis.  Various Russian VIPs watching take off.
1937; Early Aviation; Distance Record (5,475 miles); Arctic Flight; 
NOTE:  Flight from Moscow to Portland, Oregon by Valery Chkalov, co-pilot Georgiy Baidukov & navigator A.  
01:51:27  Title:  Toronto, Ont.  Lockheed Model 10 Electra twin-engine plane landing past other light planes; bounces heavily on grassy field & taxiis to camera on return of round trip to England by Richard / Dick Merrill & J.S. Lambie (for which they won the Harmon Trophy).  Daily Express on airplane nose.
01:51:48  Men shaking hands; three men pose in suits for camera.
01:51:56  Title:  Port Washington, N.Y.  Four-engine Pan American Airways S-42B (?) Clipper from water w/ hatch open.  Pilot Ed Musick & crew into plane.  Interior w/ stewards & others (?) in uniforms into cabin & sitting down.
01:52:13   Pilot Ed Musick looking out window.  Aerial of amphibious plane taking off; others alongside.
Aviation Records; 1937; 
NOTE:  Last story may have been inaugural Transatlantic clipper flight.

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