Glimpse of U.S. Army gun crew operating a 3-inch M3 Anti Aircraft gun. Glimpse of 1st Lt Joseph H. Eastman and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker standing beside Rickenbacker's SPAD S.XIII #1 parked in front of a hangar at Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, 1918. Sequence shifts to 1936, and office of Rickenbacker, now President of Eastern Airlines. A poster on the wall contains memorabilia from the 94th Aero Squadron, with which Rickenbacker flew in World War I. Camera pans over photographes bordering the poster. Next, Rickenbacker is seen conversing with his guest, Cyrus R. Smith, President of American Airlines, as they look at a picture of Rickenbacker and his Spad airplane, signed by numerous pilots who also served with the 94th Aero Squadron. A mounted model of a Douglas DC-3 airplane sits atop a table in the foreground. Rickenbacker and C.R. Smith, both hold onto the DC-3 airplane model as they shake hands. Closeup of the DC-3 model as Rickenbacker rotates it before the camera. (Note: Both Smith and Rickenbacker, presidents of their respective airlines, had mutual admiration for the Douglas DC-3 airliner. In 1934,Smith arranged to purchase 20 new DC-3 airplanes from the Douglas Aircraft Company. American's first DC-3 "Flagship Illinois," had its maiden flight on June 25, 1936. Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first DC-3 in December 1936.) Location: United States USA. Date: 1936.

Family Sojourn In Hawaii. A promotional film for Aloha Airlines in the 1950s. 1950s, Hawaii, Aloha Airlines, Honolulu Airport, passengers walking on tarmac and boarding Aloha Airlines DC-3 Vistaliner airplane, some carrying luggage and wearing leis, Fitzpatrick family boarding airplane, taxiing airplane, Aloha Airlines control tower, DC-3 plane in flight over coast, airplane passenger wearing Hawaiian dress, flight attendant handing out booklets to passengers, man filming view with camera inserted into hole in window, aerial Waikiki shore, Aloha Airlines DC-3 plane in flight over Pacific Ocean, Maui, car pov driving on winding highway and through mountain tunnel, Haleakalā, Haleakala Crater, people at viewpoint pointing to volcano, man examining Haleakala Silversword plant, car pov driving on winding highway along coast descending to sea level, car pov tree lined road, Lahaina, progressive school, school marching band, classroom, students seated at desks, teacher Emma Sharpe, Christmas show in classroom with students singing, students applauding, car pulling into Maui Palms Hotel driveway and stopping at front entrance, outdoor swimming pool, men diving into pool, Emma Sharpe directed Hawaiian show by swimming pool at night, singers / musicians playing ukuleles and bamboo sticks and hula dancers performing traditional dance, people seated at table watching show and applauding, flight attendant handing out booklets to passengers wearing Hawaiian shirts and leis seated in airplane, Aloha Airplane airplane in flight over Pacific Ocean, Kauai, beach and coast, sightseeing bus traveling along coast, Hanalei Valley, sugarcane, banana and coconut fields, Sleeping Giant, Nounou Mountain, Coco Palms Resort, car driving on Coco Palms Resort driveway, coco palm tree grove and lagoon, meat roasting on rotisserie spit, beach, aerial flying over Kauai, flight attendant serving drinks to passengers seated in airplane, man filming with camera through hole in window, aerial Oahu coast, O'ahu, Diamond Head, Waikiki, Honolulu Harbor, Aloha Tower, Hawaii island, Hilo, car pov driving on streets decorated with Christmas ornamentations, Rainbow Falls, Tradewind Tours autobus traveling on road near lava field, Kalapana, black sand beach, palm trees, Fitzpatrick family walking on beach and in surf, car pov driving on road from Hilo to Kīlauea volcano field, Kilauea, people at Kilauea crater overlook, car pov fern forest, native fisherman catching fish with net, fisherman spear fishing, Kona Coast, harbor, Kailua, women entering Kona gift shop, woman shopping for traditional Hawaiian clothing including muumuu, grass skirt and Hawaiian shirts, shop owner Barbara Thurston, women dressed in muumuu dresses waving goodbye to shop owner and getting into autobus, Kona Palms Hotel, outdoor swimming pool, people diving into water, Mr. and Mrs. Lorrin Thurston's estate, speedboat slowing down to enter lagoon, sunset, sun sinking in cloud laden sky, Aloha Airlines airplane flying over Pacific, passengers walking on tarmac towards Aloha Airlines airplane

00:00:00:00 [b&w film clips of American Airlines DC-3 in its heyday of 1940's ctsy AA 2:15? VS restored DC-3 in hangar 1:10. (0:00)/

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A DC-3 passenger plane flies over New York City during the 1930s.

VOLUNTEERS UNITE TO KEEP VINTAGE PLANE FLYING

[Rickenbacker Tries for New Transcontinental Air Record]

NEWS #199, EISENHOWER IN LUXEMBOURG ON FAREWELL TOUR EISENHOWER LAYS WREATH IN LUXEMBOURG EISENHOWER AND MAMIE WALK IN PARADE, GI LEAPS TO SKI SWEEP AT BEAR MOUNTAIN SKI JUMP ACTION, COLD CROWD WATCHES, WIPEOUTS, POTOMAC AIR CRASH JET PLANE CRASHED IN WATER (POTOMAC), 4 DEAD IN DC-3, SURVIVORS TREATED, FASHIONS FOR THE SUN FROM PANAMA VERY 50S COUPLE TALK ON STREET WITH BLACK MERCHANT EL PANAMA HOTEL POOL ACTIVITY AT HOTEL PANAMA, COUPLE RELAXES WOMAN MODELS AFTERNOON DRESS, MAN SNAPS PHOTO CHILDREN LEAP OFF HIGH BRIDGE TO WATER BELOW BUBBLING HOT SPRINGS OF MUD, GEYSERS LEAP NICE AMERICAN COUPLE BUY LOTTERY TICKET FROM PANAMA GIRL, REMODELED WHITE HOUSE ON DISPLAY VIEWS OF VARIOUS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR WHITE HOUSE INTERIOR VIEWS OF WHITE HOUSE (BLUE, EAST, GREEN) VISITORS THRONG INTO WHITE HOUSE, MOTORCYCLE MADNESS MOTORCYCLE HILL CLIMBING IN SEATTLE, BALLET FOR GOBS ON CARRIER DECK BALLET DANCERS DANCE ON BATTLESHIP FOR SEAMEN SEAMEN APPLAUD, GIVE HOOT-HOOT WHISTLE, PRISON RIOT WAVE IN NJ & MICHIGAN SO. MICHIGAN STATE PRISON EXT PRISONER WARD SPEAKS NEW JERSEY STATE PRISON UPRISING, EXT PRISON PRISON (MICHIGAN) AFLAME, PRISONERS RIOT IN YARD GUARDS MOVE IN TO QUELL RIOT POLICEMAN FIRE TEAR GAS GUN, RIOTERS DISPERSE PRISONERS COMPLAIN OF POOR CONDITIONS PRISON GUARD WATCHES IN TOWER WITH RIFLE, AIR FORCE, NAVY CHART WEATHER AT NORTH POLE AIR FORCE PLANE TAKES OFF IN NORTH POLE, VIEW BELOW, A NEW WRINKLE-NO WRINKLE MAGIC FABRIC TWO MODELS SHOW OFF LORETTE (NEW WOOL) WOMAN (ATTRACTIVE) TAKES SHOWER IN WOOL DRESS MODELS PUT ON DRESSES AFTER TAKING SHOWER IN THEM, MRS. TRUMAN MEETS PALSY POSTER KIDS MRS. TRUMAN GETS FLOWERS FROM TWO PALSY CHILDREN, VENEZUELAN CAPITAL OPENS 'FIFTH AVENUE' VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT JIMENEZ LEADS HUGE THRONG ON STREET HIGH ANGLE ON MODERN DOWNTOWN STREET IN CARACAS STREET UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA, ATLANTA RALLY BOOMS RUSSELL FOR PRESIDENT PARADE DOWN MAIN SQUARE OF ATLANTA HERMAN TALMADGE AND GEORGIA GOV. BURNS AT FUNDRAISER RICHARD P. RUSSELL RIDES IN OPEN CAR DOWN PEACHTREE RUSSELL WAVES TO CROWD, CROWD WAVES BACK RUSSELL AT OLD FASHIONED RUBBER CHICKEN FUNDRAISER DINNER CROWDS GIVES STANDING OVATION (NICE), AIR FORCE TESTS IT'S OWN PLANES UNDER FIRE SHELL PLACED IN SMALL TUBE SMALL AMMUNITION DUMP BLOWN UP THUMB HITS FIRING MECHANISM ON BOX NICE B-17 HUNG BETWEEN TWO TOWERS AND BLOWN UP EXPLOSION AND FLAME, FIREMEN DOUSE BLAZE, JAPAN REGAINS INDEPENDANCE EXT ALLIED COUNCIL FOR JAPAN BUILDING IN TOKYO GENERAL RIDGEWAY AT MEETING ABOLISHES ALLIED COUNCIL GENERAL RIDGEWAY ANNOUNCES THAT OCCUPATION ENDS SOT ATCHISON AND TEKUCHI SIGN TREATY ENDING OCCUPATION JAPANESE EMBASSY REOPENS IN WASHINGTON, FLAG RAISED JOHN FOSTER DULLES AT SIGNING RESTORING JAPAN INDEP, IT'S A SHAXI -- NOT TAXI IN HAWAII GOLF CART WITH GRASS ROOF RIDES ON HONOLULU STREET BIKINI GIRLS SEE SHAXI AND GET IN, BASIL O'CONNOR MARKS 30 YEARS IN POLIO FIGHT EDDIE CANTOR HOLDS BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH O'CONNOR CANTOR AND O'CONNOR BLOW OUT BIRTHDAY CAKE CANDLES, 1500 MPH ROCKETS TEST WING DESIGN ROCKETS READIED FOR FIRING (SMALL) VIEW OF ROCKET FLIGHT FROM ON BOARD CAMERA SMALL ROCKET LAUNCHED NICE NEW ANGLE OF SMALL ROCKET LAUNCH NICE, 135 MILES ON WATER SKIS NON-STOP WATERSKIERS SHARE BOTTLE OF MILK WHILE SKIING (NICE) MAN AND WOMAN GET READY FOR WATER SKI MARATHON MAN AND WOMAN WATERSKI FOOD (MILK) PASSED TO WATERSKIERS FROM BOAT WATERSKIERS DRINK MILK WHILE SKIING, QUEEN SEES TOURIST SIGHTS IN NEW ZEALAND QUEEN AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH TOUR NEW ZEALAND, BARRELS OF FUN! MEN JUMP BARRELS ON ICE AT GROSSINGER'S IN CATSKILLS LOTS OF FALLS ON BARRELS OON ICE, PEOPLE APPLAUD ROCKY MARCIANO GIVES TROPHY TO BARREL JUMP WINNER, THE WOOD MEMORIAL HORSE RACE IN JAMAICA MASTER FIDDLE WINS WOOD MEMORIAL, CROWD CHEERS, GRID GREATS OF '53 GET T.D. CLUB AWARD SAM RAYBURN GIVES SAM JONES TROPHY (GRIDIRON AWARD) REP. ANDERSON GIVES GEER GRIDIRON AWARD LAPNER, FILONE, GEEL, AMECHE HOLD AWARDS (FOOTBALL) JOHNNY LAPNER GETS AWARD FROM SUPREME COURT MINTY MEN IN BLACK TIE DINNER AUDIENCE APPLAUD ALLAN AMECHE, SEN. BUTLER GIVES FILONE AWARD, FOOTBALL: BROWNS KEEP TITLE BROWNS BEAT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS, MOTLEY RUNS CLEVELAND WINS 21 TO 7 FRANKE ALBERT TO SALADA SCORE TD, OTTO GRAHAM PASSES NEWS #200 (09:22:04:00), 34TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS KLEIG LIGHTS TWIRL OUTSIDE PANTAGES NICE KIM HUNTER EXITS CAB TO ENTER PLAYHOUSE THEATER BETTE DAVIS (SOUND) ACCEPTS OSCAR FOR KIM HUNTER MALDEN GETS AWARD FROM CLAIRE TREVOR KARL MALDEN WINS FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (1951) MARQUEE OF NY PLAYHOUSE THEATRE FOR THE CHASE LUCILLE BALL GIVES ROBERT YOUNGSON BEST SHORT AWARD HUMPHREY BOGART GETS AWARD FROM GREER GARSON RONALD COLEMAN ANNOUNCES BEST ACTRESS VIVIAN LEIGH IN DRESSING ROOM KISSES OLIVIER CURTAIN COMES DOWN ON OSCAR STATUE, GEN. GRUENTHER HERE TO TESTIFY ON FOREIGN AID SIGN HUNG INDICATING CLOSE MEETING OF SENATE PANEL GENERAL GRUNTHER ENTER ROOM, WITH CONNOLLEY, BAD WEATHER TAKES TRAGIC TOLL IN NATION RECORD SNOW HITS CALIFORNIA HUGE SNOWFALL IN HIGH SIERRAS, PEOPLE TRY TO DIG OUT TOWN BURIED IN SPRING SNOW SNOW COVERED HOME DEMOLISHED IN AMAZING FIRE FIRE COMES OUT OF HOME BURIED IN SNOW, BURNS FIREMEN TRY TO FIGHT FIRE WITH SNOW, IT WON'T GO OUT DOG LEAPS OUT OF UPSIDE DOWN DOG HOUSE (CUTE) TORNADOES HIT SIX STATES - HUNDREDS DIE AIRLIFT SAVES SNOWBOUND NEVADA CATTLE HAY THROWN FROM NAVY AIRPLANE TO FEED CATTLE COWBOY WAVES HAT TO OVERFLYING PLANE RESCUE TEAMS DIG OUT FROM RUBBLE IN ARKANSAS, $500,000 BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS LOTS OF BOWLERS BOWL, CU STRIKE IN MILWAUKEE NED DAY TRICK BOWLING SHOTS NICE ANGLES, OLYMPIC CARNIVAL HALF MILE INDOOR TRACK MEET AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN GERIMAN WINS WITH NEW TRACK RECORD, AUDIENCE APPLAUDS DICK BUTTON PUTS ON SKATING DISPLAY NEWS #201 (09:29:04:00), SAN FRANCISCO BLAZE TAKES $500,000 TOLL FIREMEN BATTLE HUGE BLAZE, ESCAPE SEAT FIRES PILOT THROUGH ROOF EJECTION SEAT FIRED INTO NET EJECTION SEAT TESTED, FASHIONS FROM ITALY SHOWN IN US FANCY ITALIAN EVENING GOWNS MODELED WOMAN HOLDS COCKTAIL IN FETCHING DRESS WOMAN COMES DOWN STARIS IN DAZZLING GOWN, OPERATION LONGHORN WAR GAMES HELD IN US, TANKS BLAST, TROOPS RUN MAN ON ROOF FLIPS BIG SIGNS 3-2-1-FIRE (GREAT), PRINCE PHILIP JOINS PIT SHIFT IN BRITISH MINES BRITISH MINING TOWN, DUKE TOURS, INTO MINE, US GUARDS JAPAN-RUSSIA WATER BORDER RIDGEWAY MEETS WITH JOY RIDGWAY IN KOREA TO SPEED TRUCE TALKS RIDGWAY WATCHES AT JET PILOTS TAKE OFF TROOPS SNOWSKI, DO TRICKS, SKI HAULED BY TANK TROOPS IN SNOWSHOES MARCH ON HOKKAIDO ISLAND, N.Y. STAGES 2ND CITY WIDE A-BOMB DRILL CIVIL DEFENSE WORKERS IN ACTION, A-BOMB DRILL PEOPLE USHERED INTO SHELTERS, WATER SPREAD ALL OVER SIMULATION OF A-BOMB BLAST IN NEW YORK A-BOMB BLAST OVER NY SUPER NEWS #202 (09:35:46:00), QUEEN JULIANA OPENS DUTCH PARLIAMENT QUEEN JULIANA CHEERED BY PARLIAMENT (POMP, CEREMONY) ORNATE MEDIEVAL PROCESSION TO HAGUE IN ROYAL COACHES KIDS WAVE WHITE FLAGS, ROMAN TEMPLE RUINS DUG UP IN LONDON EXCAVATION SITE UNEARTHED OF ROMAN TEMPLE, NAVY UNVEILS DELTA WING 'SEA-DART' FUTURISTIC PLANE TAKES OFF FROM WATER, LATTIMORE ARRAIGNED FOR PERJURY LATTIMORE EXITS BUILDING, NEHRU CONFERS WITH PREMIER OF INDONESIA PREMIERS NEHRU AND OTHER SPEAKS, PRESIDENT TAKES THE STUMP EISENHOWER SPEAKS BEFORE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL) EISENHOWER ADDRESSES THRONG IN HUGE NIGHT AMPHITHEATER EISENHOWER OFF PLANE WITH MCKAY, ARONSON IN MONTANA EISENHOWER IN HOLLYWOOD BOWL, NEWSREEL CAMERAMEN EISENHOWER RIDES IN MOTORCADE WITH ARMS RAISED, READY COPTER SQUADRON FOR WAR IN MALAYA HELICOPTERS TAKE OFF, COPTERS IN FLIGHT (MANY), PENN STATE UPSETS ILLINOIS (FOOTBALL) FOG BOUND GAME, VAN BROCKLYN PASSES, LANE, WALKER SPECTATORS WATCH WITH BINOCULARS DON BAILEY TOSSES TO ARNELL, 50 YARD RUN, MOORE RUNS HOFFMAN INTERCEPTED BY LINBECK, SMITH, BATES HIT, CLOSED DOOR WINS $67,500 U.N. HANDICAP (HORSE RACE)

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Runways and visitor areas of LaGuardia Airport in New York in 1941

moving pov of DC-3 airplane air-to-air - sunset or night - airplane to & by camera from distance right to left - aerial - Douglas DC 3

AERIAL VIEW AIRPLANE FLYING OVER MOUNTAIN RANGE (DC-3 AIRPLANE?)

Shot of shadow of revolving propeller on snow, TILT UP to MS of starboard motor on Douglas DC-3 airplane. MS of airman running in front of Douglas DC-3, as seen from under airplane wing. MS of airplane from under wing, moving away from camera. TILT UP from runway to LAS of Douglas DC-3 airborne. MCS of Douglas DC-3 being towed out of hangar.

Men investigate United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 plane that crashed on 10/17/1937 in snow in Knight Wyoming killing all 19 people on board

moving pov of DC-3 airplane air-to-air - sunset or night , dramatic sky - airplane to & by camera from distance right to left - aerial - Douglas DC 3

INTERVIEW WITH TOM WRIGHT ABOUT SMILE SHUTTLE. OLD DC-3 AIRPLANE CONVERTED TO LEGAL STREET AIRPLANE THAT LOOKS LIKE SPACE SHUTTLE

MS of Hollinger Ungava Transport Limited converted DC-3 airplane on runway. HALS of DC-3 airplane taxiing into take-off position on runway. MS of DC-3 airplane being loaded on runway, oil barrels nearby. MLS of Grumman Goose Amphibious airplane taxiing past control tower at Sept Iles Airport, Quebec.

A DC3 on stand at Guernsey airport awaiting departure. A woman stands by a fence in front of the aircraft. Registration G-AJHZ serial number 12421 built 1942 . Registered to British European Airways BEA and bears the Royal Mail Insignia .

Airplanes. Pan American Airways Douglas DC-3 Clipper approaching camera as it takes off from runway. Flying over camera. Man standing on boarding stairs and reaching through doorway by cockpit of Pan Am Clipper. Rear view of Pan Am Clipper taking off from runway. Pan Am Clipper touching down and landing on runway. Ground crew entering Pan Am Clipper after landing. Rear view of Pan Am Clipper touching down and landing on runway. .

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This 1950s home movie contains images of many wonderful propeller passenger aircraft including Lockheed Constellations and DC-3 and DC-7 aircraft. There is an air show in the middle of the reel.

A technicolor commercial advertisement promoting the safety of 1939 Ford automobiles. A Transworld Airways (TWA) DC-3 Lindbergh Line passenger airplane is seen in flight. It has "The Lindbergh Line" painted across its fuselage, and "Sky Sleeper 353" painted on its tail. Operators seen in control tower of airport. Pilot seen in cockpit of the airplane. The DC-3 lands and taxis to a parking place on the airport. Steps are placed at the door and passengers descend from the airplane. An arriving couple are met by a man and woman. They all get into a new 1939 Ford four-door sedan automobile and drive away in the car. Location: United States USA. Date: 1939.