1935 Military Aircraft & Weapons

FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1935 Military Aircraft & Weapons Army ground crew pull Explorer II gondola on a dolly out sponsored by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, Large stack of gas cylinders, gondola. Int. Capt. Albert Stevens checks equipment, Stevens & Capt Orvil Anderson beside the Explorer II. 06:50:57 Universal. Title: West Pointers Begin Training... Cadets out of truck, Mitchel Field. Cadets put on parachutes on flight line, CUs in flying gear, climb into plan large B-6 twin-engine biplanes. B-6A's taxiing on flight line. Take off & in air in formation. CUs. GOOD. 06:52:34 Universal. Title: Thompson Trophy Won By Neumann Flying 220 mph. Crowd-filled grandstands. MCU Clem Stone in bat-wing suit w/ webbing between legs & under arms for free-fall gliding. MCU crowd. Stone gliding does outside loop, then folds arms & parachute opens. Crowd-filled grandstand at Cleveland National Air Races as 7 planes take off for 1935 Thompson Trophy Race, including Roscoe Turner in a Wedell-Williams racer, Harold Neumann in a Howard "Special" named MR. MULLIGAN, & Lee Miles in a Seversky amphibian. Turner's Wedell-Williams lands & fire trucks pull on field. Roscoe Turner congratulating winner Harold Neuman. 06:55:07 Paramount. Stratosphere Bag Collapses. Explorer II balloon being inflated, day & night scenes) Capt. Stevens talking into microphone. MLS as fully inflated Explorer II balloon collapses, falls to ground. (Night scenes). 06:56:15 Aircraft workers constructing Martin B-10 bombers, Baltimore, Maryland. GOOD. 06:56:55 Paramount. Title: Hush Bomber Takes The Air. Boeing 4-engine Model 299 in front of hangar, two men on ladder check nose. Model 299 takes off; w/ wheels down in flight over clouds. 06:57:38 Hearst. Title: Edgewood, Maryland. Smoke screen laid by A-12 seen from ground & air; chemical bombs exploding on the shore; troop-filled boats thru smoke screens. 06:58:23 Hearst. Title: Langley Field, Virginia. Maj. Gen. Frank Andrews looking at twin-engine B-12A sea plane; taking off & landing on water. 06:59:03 Paramount. Title: Cleveland Sky Show Draws U.S. Aces. LS high angle many cars parked in field. Crowd in grandstand at Cleveland National Air Races. Military formations of biplanes, three P-26's flying toward camera low overground, pull up & execute inside loop. Parachutists jump; Clem Stone trailing flour, free-falling, and chute opening, landing in front of grandstand. 3 planes trail smoke, looping. 07:00:13 Paramount. Title: Blimp Takes To Air. Army's new non-rigid airship, TC-14. crewmen holding onto lines at Scott Field, Illinois. TC-14 in flight over St. Louis, Missouri. & over wooded area. 07:00:56 Paramount. Title: US Tries Out Coast Defense. Crowd at Aberdeen Proving Grounds watch 14-inch artillery fired, recoiled to flat position. Christie ten-ton tank thru house, out other side. B3-6A's in flight, bombs released from aircraft. LS bombs exploding. 07:01:43 Paramount. Fort Monroe, Virginia. MLS crews load, fire two 12-inch railroad howitzers; shells explode in water near practice target. Observers look thru telescopes on platform. 1930s; Depression; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk