From the history of aviation and aeronautics (1912-1914)

An airplane takes off.

French military and political figures at the airfield.

An airship flies over the airfield.

Military personnel walk along the airfield.

An airplane begins its takeoff run.

A ceremonial welcome at a concert in Vienna.

Austrian aristocrats during a reception.

A view of part of the Moscow Kremlin in the 1910s.

A view of part of the Kremlin wall near the Moskva River.

Emperor Nicholas II and his wife lead a ceremonial procession in the Kremlin in 1912. Officers of the retinue and the emperor's daughters pass by.

An airship in flight.

An officer from the airship crew looks out of the gondola window.

A landscape from the gondola window.

The airship flies over warships moored in the roadstead, a sailing yacht floats by.

Sailboats in the bay, an airship flies in the sky.

French pilot Garraud in the airplane cockpit before takeoff.

An airplane takesoff run.

Performing aerobatic maneuvers.

Pilot Pierre Châtelou near his airplane before a performance in Juvy-sur-Orge in 1913. Châtelou's airplane takes off.

Performing aerobatic maneuvers.

Spectators at the edge of the airfield watch Châtelou's flight.

Distinguished guests arrive for the ship's launching ceremony.

View of the ship's bow.

Propellers.

The ship's launch.

Spectators cheer the ship's launch.

Horse-drawn omnibuses pass through a city street.

The Zeppelin LZ-13 airship flies over the center of Berlin in 1912. A group of German officers before the start of the parade.

The Imperial Guard parade in Berlin after the airship flight in 1912. The carriages of the Imperial Cavalcade pass by.

The troops march in parade formation.

German pilot Otto Breitbeil at the airfield near his airplane in 1913-1914. Airplane takeoff.

Performing aerobatics.

Airplane crash.

Airship in flight.

Ceremonial welcome of French President Poincaré in 1913. Poincaré in a carriage.

Poincaré exits a stopped carriage.

Poincaré among Russian diplomats at the entrance to the Russian Imperial Embassy.

Welcome of Poincaré in St.

Petersburg in the summer of 1914. Poincaré in a carriage.

Soldiers of the Russian Guards units march in parade formation.

Poincaré boards the carriage.

French pilot Maurice Prévost inspects and loads a machine gun for firing at aerial targets, mounted in front of the airplane's cockpit.

Prévost's airplane in flight.

Prévost fires a machine gun during flight.

Ceremonial events in European capitals.

Naval Day in the United States.

A warship fires a salute.

A parade of American troops.