Summary: Early commercial passenger/cargo flights. No actual take-offs but still good examples of early commercial flights
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: X-15 rocket plane flight
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Summary: Plane is pulled out of hangar, pilots climb in and fly. Good ground and aerial shots
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1920
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Summary: Wright Brothers hold aviation meet in St. Louis. Early airplane, spectators, some stunt flying. One visitor at the show seems to be Theodore Roosevelt.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1912
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Summary: First all-metal airship
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1929
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Summary: Autogiro in action (early relative of the helicopter)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Summary: Sky Giant: the first four-engine commercial airplane
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1938
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Summary: Ejection seat tests/training for jet aircraft
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Summary: Supermarine seaplanes being built and being demonstrated.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1931
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Summary: Early aviation (1906) effort by Danish aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer who made the first powered flight in Europe. Shots of strange 3-tiered plane attempting to fly, 3 men help to guide/control it as it flops around.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1906
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Summary: Canadian lab with wind tunnel setup to test model planes
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: British Royal Navy tests steam catapult for launching airplanes from aircraft carriers
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1952
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Summary: Ill-conceived flying machines including elaborate precursor to the auto-gyro
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1930