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Aviation - ca 1912 - 1935: German, Italian & Americans

Reel Number: 250085-27

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1910s,1920s,1930s

Country: Germany,Italy,USA

Location: Potsdam,Rosiden

TC Begins: 00:38:33

TC Ends: 00:44:31

Duration: 00:05:58

Aviation - ca 1912 - 1935: German, Italian & Americans Series of short film clips taken in Germany and Italy between 1912 and 1934. including von Richthofen talking to other pilots; von Hindenburg and other dignitaries, Wiley Post at Berlin on his solo round-the-world flight; Air Marshall Italo Balbo departing on his transatlantic flight; Dornier DO-18 "Wal" being catapulted from deck of ship; and Fokker Dr-I (similar to von Richthofen's)taxiing on ground 00:38:33 Aerial above on right, Lufthansa Junkers JU-86 transport in flight w/ 205 Diesel engine. CU JU-86 on ground. 00:38:42 CU old V-6 aircraft engine. MS RV Dornier DO-18 "Wal" flying boat being catapulted from ship. 00:38:53 CU very early aircraft -- pilot in seat between landing wheels (Schulze -- 1912). 00:38:59 MS Large 4-engine Junkers G-38 transport D-2500 taking off. Aerial above left of Junkers JU-86 transport w/ Jumo 205 Diesel in flight. MS Loeniiig amphibian (OA-1) taxiing to shore. (US Coast Guard). 00:39:26 CU Focke-Wolf "Ente" experimental canard-type aircraft flying low over field. MS right LA Heinkel HE-57 amphibian monoplane D-2067 in flight. Bi-plane taxiing, view of ground from cockpit of circling aircraft, diving & spinning. 00:40:15 MLS man w/ parachute landing on field. LS model airplane circling overhead. 00:40:31 MS von Hindenburg & VIPs at re-interment of von Richthofen (1925) Invalides Cemetery, Potsdam. 00:40:35 CU von Richthofen & other Iron Cross German pilots talking. (1917 or 1918). 00:40:59 MS right RV tri-wing Fokker DR-I taxiing on field. 00:41:02 German title: TAKEOFF OF AMERICAN FLIGHT SQUADRON UNDER COMMAND OF AIR MINISTER BALBO, 25 FLYING BOATS LEAVE ORBETELLO FOR A FLIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES. MS & CU Gen. Italo Balbo & crew seated at desk beneath picture of Savoia- Marchetti flying boats over Rio de Janeiro, planning flight to US & Chicago World's Fair, 1933. Balbo's air crew walk to dock, into launch w/ Savoie-Marchetti flying a boat in bg. MS Savoia-Marchetti aircraft overhead. MS Balbo & crew to launch. 00:41:58 Title: SUMMER & WINTER CLOTHING. (German). MS pilot in winter gear joined by man in light flying suit -- BFW Flamingo (1930 German biplane) in bg. 00:42:07 AMS left FV BFW Flamingo in low flight. MS two men on ground in front, talk. 00:42:19 Ground seen from behind cockpit, diving & turning. 00:42:37 LS primary bi-wing Espenlaub Hangeglider coming down slope. MS men tow primary Granau Glider into air on hilltop. MLS group of people around crashed glider. LS primary glider Zoegling 30 in flight. 00:43:02 MS bi-wing secondary glider. LS model aircraft in flight overhead. Primary glider catapulted from top of sand dune at Rosiden. 00:43:15 MLS people run to crashed glider. CU men & boys around primary glider on sand dune, Roaiden. 00:43:20 MS glider (bi-wing) going down hill before crash. 00:43:23 MS two men around scallop wing glider. MS man in cockpit of Groenhoff sailplane. MS students pushing primary school gliders along top of hill. 00:43:38 MS pile of junk (airplanes & wings). MSs of gliders being returned to top of Wasserkuppe on top of cars and wagon. Model airplane in flgiht. 00:43:54 MCU Wiley Post, pointing to names of countries on side of WINNIE MAE (Lockheed Vega Executive). CU Wiley Post w/ German men. MCU WINNIE MAE taxiing to halt, Wiley Post out of aircraft. 00:44:23 LS pan right Euler triplane in flight to left (1912). MCU right FV same aircraft on ground with Herr Euler in cockpit. MS wreckage of large German aircraft (DFW-R-1 bomber). History; German Aircraft; Italian Airplanes;

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