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WWI, Homefront - Airplane Manufacturing - Handley Page, R3 of 3

Reel Number: H1329-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1917,1918

Country: USA

Location: Buffalo,dayton,Detroit,Elizabeth,Michigan,New Jersey,New York,Ohio

TC Begins: 10:58:48

TC Ends: 11:13:56

Duration: 00:15:08

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI, Homefront - Airplane Manufacturing - Handley Page, R3 Balanced propeller attached to aircraft being assembled in factory. Motor tested in factory / hanger. 10:59:43 Wings carried and attached to fuselage. 11:00:10 DH-4 airplane on field, men turn propeller to start. Air to air shot of plane in flight. 11:00:40 Flash title: Immediately on its return from the test flight the plane is taken apart for packing & shipment. 11:04:41 MS of DH-4 being disassembled on ground & crated for overseas shipment to AEF. Mobile crane loading crated aircraft onto railway car & train moving out to right. 11:02:22 Flash title: Handley Page bombing machine, the “made in America” flying giant which carries destruction by the ton. 11:02:23 Factory interior w/ men working on large twin-engine aircraft w/ Langley & British & USA flags painted on nose. On field and taxiing ungainley, taking off & landing. 11:03:59 Flash title: The Made-in-America Caproni, another giant of the air. 11:04:00 Caproni on ramp in front of hangar being assembled, pilot & another into plane; taxiing, taking off & in flight see from below. 11:05:42 Man posing in front of plane. 11:05:50 Scenes of Standard Aircraft Corporation biplanes on ramp with US Mail markings on fuselage. Tail w/ weight for gas, oil, pilot, mail & ??. Men lift fuselage of camouflage painted airplane. Scenes of Vought biplane on ramp. 11:08:53 Pilot & observer posing w/ dog mascot on ramp and boarding JN-4D. CU in cockpit w/ radio headset etc. 11:11:47 Flash title: The Navy has its own requirements to meet in aviation. Here are some of Uncle Sam’s flying boats. 11:11:48 Men assembling flying boats in factory. Moving partially assembled hull of large fuselage. Engine put into place. Row of partially assembled flying boats. 11:13:55 Flash title: The U.S. Hydroplane - The H-S-I-L . WW1 Homefront; Military Aviation Industry; 1917; 1918; Airplane Assembly; Card sold at per reel rate. Very good. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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