USA: Long-distance pilots arrive at New York for parade (1927)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Pilots Richard Evelyn Byrd and Clarence Duncan Chamberlin, on the heels of respective records in distance flight - the first trans-Atlantic mail plane, are honoured with a ticker-tape parade down New York City’s streets on their return from Berlin. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATON: Thrilling Ovation for Byrd and Chamberlin As Heroes Return to New York USA: New York: EXT AIR VIEW / AERIAL Large ship ’Leviathan’ with flotilla of smaller ships beside SLATE: Honours begin as the great liner Leviathan steams up the harbour Pilots Richard Evelyn Byrd and Clarence Duncan Chamberlin disembark ship with Lieutenant George O. Noville, Bertrand Acosta, Bernt Balchen SLATE: Heroes all - Commander Byrd with Acosta, Noville, Balchen and Chamberlin Byrd, Chamberlin, Noville, Acosta and Balchen pose for photo opportunity SLATE: Th