This black-and-white 1930s educational film is believe to be titled “Conquest of the Air”. It looks back on “the first forty years in flight” covering the history of aviation from hot air balloons to the Wright Brothers and up to the mid-1930s. It features historical footage of the first airships, blimps, helicopters, early flying machines, and famous aviation pioneers such as the Wrights, Hugo Eckener, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes and others.

Credits (00:06). The first manned hot air balloon flight by pilots Rozier and d’Arlande in 1783 (00:15). The functions of hot air balloons (00:34). The first balloon flights powered by hydrogen gas discovered by Henry Cavendish (01:20). The Giffard Dirigible, a powered and steerable airship built in 1852 by French Henri Giffard (02:09). Ferdinand von Zeppelin’s first of many rigid dirigibles (02:36). The Zeppelin airship used during WWI (02:52). The Connecticut Aircraft Company’s DN-1 airship (03:21). U.S. Navy blimp C-7, inflated with helium, 1921 (03:31). R34 airship (03:52). USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) airship (04:18). The ZR-1 destroyed (04:37). USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) rigid airship (04:43). Map of ZR-3 airship’s trans-Atlantic journey (04:53). ZR-3 airship (05:10). LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (05:25). Hugo Eckener (05:34). LZ 127 airship’s 21-day journey around the globe (05:48). USS Akron (ZRS-4) (05:56). Scouting plane (06:11). USS Macon (ZRS-5) (06:19). LZ 129 Hindenburg (06:33) is destroyed (07:16). Illustration of Pterodactyls (08:11). Kite built by Chinese philosopher Mo-tse (08:33). Leonardo da Vinci (08:42). His various flying machines designs (08:48). The Leonardo da Vinci Glider (08:52). Toy helicopter made with feathers (09:02). English Sir George Cayley and (09:12) his helicopter (09:20).”Henson Aerial Steam Carriage” monoplane designed by William Samuel Hansen (09:30). Model plane built by John Stringfellow (09:48). Lawrence Hargrave’s box kite (10:08). First designs of ornithopters (10:14). Otto Lilienthal’s glider-design demonstrated by Paul E. Garber (10:30). Octave Chanute’s glider designs (10:58). Samuel Langley’s unpiloted Aerodrome No. 5 aircraft (11:24). First manned Aerodrome and the failed test-flight (11:44). The Wright Flyer (the Kitty Hawk) (12:06). Explanation of how planes fly (13:01). Santos-Dumont 14-bis biplane (15:33). The Wright Brothers’ first flight in France (15:49). The Curtiss Model B-8 (15:54). Antoinette VII monoplane (16:09). Louis Blériot and his Blériot XI monoplane (16:41). Demoiselle monoplane by Alberto Santos-Dumont (16:55). Former president Roosevelt during a flight (17:07). European designed flying machines (17:26). Curtiss Model H long-range flying boat (17:55). Aircraft construction industry (18:48). War/combat planes (19:21). The first airmail flight, 1918 (20:00). The US Navy NC-4 flying boat (20:18). The first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, 1919 (20:54). First passenger flight route in a Handley-Page aircraft (21:15). First non-stop transcontinental flight in the US (21:28). The first aerial circumnavigation of the world, 1924 (21:56). Unsuccessful airplane inventions (22:29). Early helicopter aircraft (23:07). Explorer flight to the North Pole by Lieut. Byrd and Bennett, 1926 (23:29). Pilots François Coli and Charles Nungesser attempted a non-stop flight from Paris to New York, and disappeared forever (23:54). Pilot Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, 1927 (24:19). Costes’ and Bellonte’ journey from Paris to New York in a Breguet 19 Super Bidon biplane,1930 (25:18). Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (25:35). The Decennial Air Cruise mass Transatlantic flight Italy to Illinois, 1933 (26:10). Wiley Post, first pilot to fly solo around the world (27:05). Howard Hughes flew around the world in 1938 in a Lockheed 14 aircraft (27:52). Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (28:38). Aircraft safeguards explained (29:12). Ford and Fokker trimotor aircraft (31:40). Expanding commercial aviation (32:03). Douglas DC-4 passenger plane (34:06). Expanding aircraft industry (34:30). Newly trained pilots (35:11). Glider planes (35:21). Pilots learn to steer gliders (25:30). Randolph Air Force Base flying school (37:19). Airplane aerobatics (38:10). Cadets continue their pilot training (38:42). Gigantic Dornier Do X German flying boat (40:32). Pan Am China Clipper flying boat (40:46). Recap (42:30).

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