A film about the development of aviation.




Airplane on the field.
Chronicle of the beginning of the century - airplane takeoff.
English pilots.
Group of airplanes 1914-1918. First flights.
Pilots.
Flight above the clouds.
Meeting of President Wilson with pilots.
Dropping a bomb on a ship.
Explosions at sea.
Overturned ship.
Chronicle of the first flying machines of the beginning of the century.
Model of 1934. Takeoff of a light machine, crash of an airplane.
Airplane with a propeller.
Airplane with a rocket engine.
Hydroplane.
Crash.
A man with "wings" tries to take off.
Running down a hill.
The first helicopters.
Sikorsky airplane, model 1941. Inventors with small models.
Flying models.
Pilots on airplanes of the 1920s.
Dramatic episodes: the first airplanes explode and crash, including those of the Monteverdi brothers.
Burning airplane of the "flying saucer" type.
Airship.
Explosion.
The Hindenburg airship
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Explosion.
General Mitchell talks about the past, about bombing in Africa, America, etc.
Explosions on the ground.
Bombers.
Dunkirk.
Seaborne assault.
Planes bomb a ship.
Coventry.
Destroyed buildings.
Paratroopers.
Work in an aircraft laboratory.
American pilots at an aircraft factory.
Assembling aircraft.
General Pershing on a test field.
Assembling aircraft.
Various types of aircraft.
US Air Force.
Parachute landing.
aviation, USA, parachutists, landing, factory, bombardment