# "FLYING ACTION" 1951 AVIATION HISTORY FILM WRIGHT BROTHERS TO X-1 SOUND BARRIER FLIGHT 20304

Released in 1951 and sold to the home market through camera stores, department stores and mail order catalogs by Castle Films, "Flying Action" presents an overview of 50 years of aviation history. It begins with brief shots of the Bell X-2 rocket plane and Lockheed F-80 / P-80 jet, as well as the B-47 Stratojet bomber. At :55 are historic films of the Wright flyer followed at 1:06 by a Curtiss Pusher aircraft or Model D. At 1:15, female pilot Ruth Law is shown, who received her pilot's license in November 1912, and in 1915 gave a demonstration of aerobatics at Daytona Beach, Florida, before a large crowd. At 1;23, planes of the Lafayette Escadrille, America's flying unit in WWI are shown, as well as pilots including ace Eddie Rickenbacker. At 1:49, early bomber aircraft led by General Billy Mitchell bomb stationery warships. At 2:10, the Air Mail is shown in its earliest form. At 2:25, former Air Mail pilot, Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic. At 2:33, Wiley Post and Will Rogers are shown before their fatal flight in Alaska, and at 2:39 Amelia Earhart poses as well as fellow aviatrix Ruth Elder. At 2:44, Ruth Nichols emerges from her Lockheed Vega. She remains the only woman to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance (for a female pilot). At 2:50, Lowell Bayles is seen flying the Gee Bee. The date is December 5, 1931, and Bayles was attempting to set a new speed record. At 3:00, at a speed of over 300 mph, the wing of the racing aircraft…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: History, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/20304-flying-action-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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