[AIRPLANE RELIABILITY TOUR] Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Panorama of Ford Airport, hangars, people - view of Fairchild airplane with wings folded back along fuselage inside hangar - view of motor - close-up of wings - men pushing Fairchild plane out of hangar - many views of men demonstrating folding wings and latching mechanism - man climbing into cockpit of Fairchild - views of Woodson, Type 3A airplane, ‘Woodson Engine Company, Bryan, Ohio’ written on rudder - view of Swallow biplane, ‘The Super Swallow, Swallow Airplane Manufacturing. Company, Wichita, Kans.’ on rudder - views of Curtiss biplane, ‘Curtiss Oriole’ on rudder - men standing beside biplane, ‘Flying Service Inc.,’ on fuselage - views of Waco biplane - views of Mercury biplane, ‘Mercury Aircraft, Aerial Service Corporation, Hammondsport, N.Y.’ on rudder - view of biplane - close-up of landing gear with wheel removed, with wheel attached - view of biplane with ‘Alexander Eaglerock’ on rudder - views of Travelair biplane, ‘Travel Air Manufacturing. Company, Inc., Wichita, Kansas’ on rudder - view of biplane - Henry Ford sitting in car talking to men - group of men posing - views of different biplanes on field - man working- stabilizer of Ryan airplane - views of different mono- and biplanes on field - men looking at small plane, ‘Briggs Dart’ on fuselage - views of Ford single engine metal plane - man in coveralls and woman posing beside Ford plane - man posing - panoramas of Ford Airport, people, planes, buildings - different planes taking off at starter’s signal - men wheeling Ford plane preparatory for take-off - Ford Tri-Motor taxiing down runway, taking off. [1926]
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