https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bbb9e371-d0f5-4d4b-8adf-42b35ed77518 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com The history of aviation is presented as a succession of different airplane models in this silent film. (TRT 14:43) Opening title: “Hollywood Film Enterprises, Inc. presents The March of Aviation” (0:08). A grounded balloon is attended to by men. “The balloon first broke man’s tie with the earth.” It ascends (0:15). “The Wright brothers were the world’s first successful flyers.” A take off from Kitty Hawk before spectators (0:39). “By 1910 aviation had advanced to this Curtiss ‘Pusher.’” The Curtiss Model D Pusher in flight (1:00). “The British Farman bomber, known as the ‘flying bathtub’ pioneered as a fighting craft in 1912.” The bomber is shown taking off (1:28). “The French used ‘flying boats’ in the First World War” A Lohner flying boat in the water (2:35). “This Sopwith triplane had remarkable ability to climb” (2:52). “The first plane with a separate gunner’s cockpit – the Austrian Albatross, 1914” The Albatros B.II (3:43). The sturdy beloved ‘Jenny’ – JN4D – used in training United States Army aviators in World War I” The Curtiss JN Jenny in flight (4:07). “The Thomas Morris ‘Scout’, a fast fighter plane used with great success by the British” (4:32). “The British SE5 traveled 150 miles per hour, carried two machine guns” The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (4:51). “The German Fokker D-7, first airplane with welded steel tubing fuselage” (5:21). “The United States Navy’s NC-4 amazed the world with the first trans-Atlantic flight via Newfoundland and the Azores, May 16, 1919” The NC-4 is pushed into the water (5:50). The Douglas mail plane – first commercial use of the famed Liberty motor” (6:34). “By the early 1930’s this long-range heavy-lifting Keystone bomber had been developed - ” (6:52). “- and the autogiro, capable of practically vertical landing, had been invented by Juan de la Cierva of Spain.” The first autogyro, the Cierva C.1 (7:19). “A dinosaurus of aircraft, the Macon, one of the gigantic, beautiful rigid dirigibles, extinct, prey to their own size.” The USS Macon ZRS-5 in flight (7:37). A French Caudron makes an international speed record of 314 miles per hour, Los Angeles – 1936.” The Caudron C.460 (8:32). “The development of huge transport planes is another milestone in aviation’s progress” An American Airlines DC-3 (8:55). “The British Caledonia, the first plane to carry mail and passengers from England to America, 1937” The Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-ADHM Caledonia in flight (9:24). “The P-38 – a fast and deadly interceptor.” The Lockheed P-38 Lightning makes a landing (9:53). “Bombers are built to carry heavy loads” Martin B-10 monoplane bombers (10:36). “The Fairey Battle, an R.A.F. general purpose plane” (11:27). “Douglas Torpedo bombers take off from aircraft carriers” Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo bombers in formation (11:39). “The P-40, pride of the American volunteer “Flying Tigers.” The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (11:53). “The DC-4, first transport plane with retractable tricycle landing gear” (12:28). “The Yankee Clipper,” a Being 314 Clipper flying boat (13:21). “Our mighty ‘Flying Fortress’,” the Boeing B-17 takes off (14:06). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSgdf9cHRA Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:25:49 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/bbb9e371-d0f5-4d4b-8adf-42b35ed77518 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.