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Manufacturing airplanes in the First World War - three reels from the public domain files of the National Archives. Reel 1, spruce is felled in Washington, loaded on flat-cars, hauled to Vancouver, seasoned in kilns, cut, and planed. Women machine small metal parts in an aircraft factory. Spruce beams for wings are spliced, glued, and hollowed. Linen is sewed onto wings and doped. Reel 2, spruce runners for fuselages are shaped and planed. Engine cradles are assembled and installed. Landing gear, gasoline tanks, and tail sections are installed. Parts for a Liberty engine are examined and the engine installed in a DH-4. Propellers are balanced, profiled, sanded, and inspected in a New Haven, Conn., plant. Reel 3, the propeller blades are synchronized with an airplane's guns. A DH-4 is assembled, tested, dismantled, and crated. Shows closeups and aerial views of Handley-Page and Caproni bombers, standard-8 mail planes, DH-4's, Navy flying boats, and an HSIL hydroaeroplane.