The history of aviation which
Joseph O'Brien and
Thomas Mead have sketched briefly in news-reel clips of early flying feats and action shots of the present war has an understandable emphasis on military operations but offers, too, a glimpse of peacetime flying. Present, past and future are represented by pictures and facts of unusual interest. In addition to the familiar shots of early biplanes, balloons and gliders - some of them taken from the aviation exhibit in Rockefeller Center - there are the inventions of the Gilmore brothers, who preceded the Wrights with machines of amazing design which never flew. The air achievements of World War II are shown as the climax of more than 40 years' experimentation and daring. But even they may be overshadowed for the moment by the promise of Bermuda by air, round trip, for little more than thirty dollars. The drama is all in the pictures while a factual commentary supplies identification.