Birds in flight. Depiction of flight by famous inventors and artists: Leonardo da Vinci, for example. Actual shooting of balloon flight and stills of Montgolfier flights. Sequences on early attempts at flight, on the Wright Brothers and other pioneers. Bleriot taking off for the channel flight. Shots of dirigibles on ground and in flight. Observation balloon during World War I. Aerial view on ground and aloft. Shots of early aircraft factories. View of Eddie Rickenbacker posing with three other flyers. Monument to Orvill and Wilbur Wright. Various shots of strange and wonderful attempts at flight ending in crashes. Other aircraft crashes. Sequence on Lindbergh's plane in flight and on his welcome in Paris. Shots of aircraft being constructed in France - Nungesser and Coli's "Oiseau Bleu"? French war aces, still in uniform, posing by aircraft with legend: Nungesser and Coli.~Shot of the Ford Trimotor "Southern Cross", huge crowd, pilot at microphone on dais. Aerial view of the Josephine Ford, the Byrd Arctic Expedition Fokker trimotor in flight. Various views of the Norge dirigible rising, mail being loading into mail plane and postmen sorting mail and route. Shot of the Fokker F-VII A "America" on ground and in flight. Passangers boarding Ford trimotor airliner, taking off over camera. Views of the Imperial Airways Handley Page HP 42 "Heracles", of crew. Air terminals, one in Rangoon. Aerial view of French plane, pilot, and crowd. The plane has "France-Amérique du Sud" on it. Aerial view of New York City. Shots of the Lockheed Vega "Winnie Mae", Wiley Post (?) being interviewed. Amelia Earhart on her Lockheed Vega. Shy woman pilot talking to the reporters beside her aircraft. Russian aircraft T-B3, cheering crowd~Sequence on DC-3's under construction. Views of Sikorsky flying boat on water and in flight. Ditto China Clipper landing, of the Short flying boats Centaurus and Caledonia in flight, taking off. Sequences on the Hindenburg disaster. Air raid, the Battle of Britain, Bostons, and Flying Forts airborne. Scamble on aircraft carrier. Parachute dropping in Jungle. Activity there, airfield being built. Airmen in Asia being trained. Aircraft flying over mountains, deserts, taking of from arctic flying strip. Squadron in flight over the desert, shadows on dunes presenting striking effects. Footage of camel and planes in upper background, flying by. Shot of an aircraft plant in the United States. Cut to experimental flying wing, to the Howard Hughes "Wooden Goose" riding a flat bed trailer. Sequence on jet aircraft, the Bell Airacomet, in crowd and in flight. Constallation transport taking off. Aerials view of New York City, London, Paris, the Pyramids, mountians, etc.
