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	Fantasy of Flight's Ford Trimotor
		Starting in 1925, Ford sponsored “Air Safety” tours in an attempt to show the public that aviation could be safe and reliable.
		The Ford Tri-Motor was involved in another interesting attempt to get the public to fly.
		The final leg of the journey was on a Ford Tri-Motor, which would arrive in Los Angeles by nightfall and in less than 48 hours.
	www.fantasyofflight.com /aircraftpages/fordtrimotor.htm (585 words)

	Dictionary : Ford_Trimotor
		The series of three-engine Ford Trimotor aircraft produced during the 1920s and 1930s were classic planes of the era.
		The Trimotor's most famous single flight was Admiral Richard Byrd's flight over the South Pole on November 28, 1929, when the Floyd Bennett carried Byrd and three companions around the Pole.
		The first Ford Trimotor, the 2-AT Pullman, was developed by Stout Metal Airplane Company in early 1925.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Ford_Trimotor/DI84.htm (0 words)

	No. 1409: The Redoubtable DC-3
		But even the Trimotor was still covered with corrugated metal, had externally exposed control wires, and non-retracting landing gear.
		Listener Edward Morrison wrote to emend my too-simple statement that the Ford Trimotor was a clone of the Fokker Trimotor.
		"Ford's relatively short-lived trimotor was designed by William B. Stout from his company's 2-AT Pullman after his company was acquired by Ford in 1925.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1409.htm (636 words)

	SDAM - Welcome to the San Diego Air & Space Museum
		Ford used his name, and an extensive publicity campaign focused on the safety of the Trimotor, to gain the trust of the public.
		In 1968 the Trimotor became an exhibition in the air when it was restored to its original Pan American scheme by Wheels and Wings Museum of Santee, South Carolina.
		Today you can see the Ford Trimotor 5-AT-11 on exhibition in the Pavilion of Flight of the Ford Building, next to the museum's two 1930s V-8 Ford cars, as a testament to Ford's major role in the development of transportation in the twentieth century, both on the ground and in the air.
	www.aerospacemuseum.org /exhibits/aircraft_feb.html (983 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Ford Trimotor
		The Ford Trimotor was a three engine civil transport aircraft first produced in 1926 by Henry Ford and continued until about 1931.
		In the early 1920's Henry Ford, along with a list of 19 other investors including his son Edsel, invested in the Stout Metal Airplane Company.
		Richard Byrd purchased both a Ford and a Fokker of similar design for his successful trip to the North Pole in 1926.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Ford_Trimotor (627 words)

	FlightSim.Com: Flying The Ford Trimotor
		One of the included planes was modeled after a real plane that still flys regularly, the Ford Trimotor that is owned and operated by the EAA.
		Their Fly The Ford program lets anyone get a ride in this historic aircraft and feel what air travel was like at the dawn of the air age.
		I don't recall the Trimotor making a tour to the U.S. east coast before, but when I heard it was coming my way I figured I had to get a ride on it.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/feature/ford.htm (0 words)

	The Story of the Ford Trimotor
		The first and only result of the takeover of Ford in the field of aviation would be the Ford 4-AT Trimotor, a powerful three-engined, high wing monoplane constructed totally of metal, with a skin of corrugated duralumin based on the Junkers system.
		This meant that Ford had to provide insurance to buyers of the aircraft in case Junkers, in turn, took action against them.
		The Ford Trimotor, robust and easy to maintain, had a fuselage of rectangular cross-section, rounded off fore and aft, built around a structure of multiple longitudinal spars, which together with the frames and skin carried most of the structural forces.
	www.mpcmcgrath.flyer.co.uk /foundation/found2d/trimotor_story.htm (455 words)

	32 bendix
		In August of that year Stout's organization was acquired by the Ford Motor Company of which it became a division, and almost immediately development of a three-engined version of the Pullman was initiated under the designation Ford 3-AT.
		The successor, the Ford 4-AT, differed very considerably, though its derivation from the Pullman was still discernible in the retention of the 2-ATs unusually-shaped cabin windows.
		Dubbed the "Tin Goose", the Ford Trimotor appeared also with a variety of official and unofficial modifications, and was operated with wheel, float, or ski landing gear.
	www.oldbeacon.com /gallery/sarsfield/sarsfield-8.htm (460 words)

	Air Transport Industry - MSN Encarta
		Henry Ford, an auto manufacturer, was among the first to win airmail contracts.
		His Ford Motor Company soon began producing aircraft, introducing the Ford Trimotor, commonly referred to as the Tin Goose, in 1927.
		The Ford Trimotor was one of the first all-metal planes and the first plane designed primarily to carry passengers rather than mail.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552091/Air_Transport_Industry.html (1176 words)

	FS2004 Vintage Aircraft Page 41
		It is for FS2004 and includes the whole aircraft, except for the sound, which I aliased to the Ford Trimotor.
		This is the whole aircraft, except for the sound which I aliased to the Ford Trimotor, in case you don't have CFS2.
		The sound is aliased to the Ford Trimotor and the panel is aliased to the DC3.
	www.simviation.com /fs2004vintage41.htm (517 words)

	ch4-3
		Another immortal high-wing monoplane, the Ford trimotor, formed the mainstay of the infant U.S. airline industry in the late 1920's and early 1930's.
		The basic configuration was similar to the Fokker trimotor referred to earlier; however, the methods of construction employed in the two aircraft were totally different.
		The Fokker structure consisted of a mixture of wood, metal, and fabric; the Ford was of all-metal construction.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch4-3.htm (2139 words)

	The Ford Tri-motor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Known universally as the tin goose, the Ford Tri-motor represented one of the most significant advances in air-transport design.
		The Ford Tri-motor carried 14 to 16 passengers and they dominated air transport until more efficient, all metal planes such as the Boeing 247 and the DC-2 became available in 1933 and 1934.
		The Trimotors were costly to operate, noisy, drafty, and as proved in the famous crash on March 31, 1931, that killed football coach Knute Rocke, could be fatally weak under stress.
	members.aol.com /mwinit/airtravel/fordtri.html (112 words)

	Exhibit shows Ford's link to Seattle
		That rich history is commemorated in "Seattle Drives Ford," an exhibit which includes historic photographs and advertisements from the MOHAI collection, as well as 10 vintage Fords, one from the museum's own collection, nine from local collectors.
		Ford shipped parts from Michigan to Seattle by rail; assembly of the car started on the top floor, with the frame moving by conveyor to the ground floor where the heaviest parts, including the chassis, were attached.
		For a time Ford was in the aviation business, and the Ford Trimotor, launched in 1926, was a rival to Boeing.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/143333_ford10.html (927 words)

	FordHistory
		I left Ford Motor in 1955, recruited by Virgil Exner and assigned to the Chrysler Corp. design department. A long-time policy at Ford Motor was to "forget" the designers who left the company, and to give credit for their contributions to designers who remained.
		The date on the rendering, '52, shows that the project was started earlier than the official Ford records and many historians have stated.
		Note the 1953 Corvette at top left. If I remember correctly, the two dark renderings at top and center were by Bill Boyer, the light one in the center by Alan Kornmiller, and the two bottom ones by myself. I have not seen pictures of the full-scale profiles that started the program in early 1952.
	www.homestead.com /AutomobileArt/FordHistory.html (1081 words)

	Heroes of the Sky at Henry Ford Museum
		Ford’s corrugated metal Trimotors—made out of corrosion-resistant aluminum and exceptionally strong duralumin—gained the affectionate nicknames of “Tin Goose” and “Flying Washboard.” In 1926, he built a new 60,000-square-foot factory to produce his Trimotors—“laid out expressly to accommodate the Ford system of progressive production.”
		Ford’s involvement in aviation convinced a huge number of people that flying was safe and dependable.
		The Henry Ford is an AAM accredited institution.
	www.hfmgv.org /museum/heroes/entrepreneurs/henryford_p3.asp (336 words)

	National Postal Museum
		In 1925, automobile giant Henry Ford won a contract to fly mail between Chicago and Detroit and Cleveland.
		At first, Ford used airplanes his company had been using to transport automobile parts between assembly plants.
		Made of a new material, duralumin, the Trimotor was one of the first all metal airplanes.
	postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2c2b5_trimotor.html (405 words)

	Tin Goose (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1927, Ford Motor Company produced the Ford Trimotor, one of the first all-metal airplanes.
		It was often referred to as the"Tin Goose" or "Flying Washboard." It was the first plane created to carry passengers rather the mail, with a seating capacity of 12.
		A Ford 4-AT-15 Trimotor monoplane, piloted by Berndt Balehen, was used in the first flight over the South Pole in November of 1929.
	www.lerc.nasa.gov /WWW/K-12/aerosim/LessonHS97/TinGoose.html (103 words)

	Ford 1926 Tri-Motor Gold Select
		By 1925, Ford was in the aircraft business and a year later the Ford 4-AT Trimotor took to the sky.
		The interior of the corrugated metal Trimotor was typically either sweltering hot or icy cold, and the engine noise was so loud that cotton wad earplugs handed out by the stewardess had minimal effect.
		However, over the years, rugged Trimotors served all over the world and a small number are still flying today.
	www.nwtmint.com /store_mil/index.php?mod=product&id_prd=431 (293 words)

	Ford Tri-Motor Video and Poster
		This video was made in August 1988, two years after Ford Trimotor N-7584 (model 4-AT-B, serial number 4-AT-38) started a five-year odyssey.
		The color video, "Ford Tri-motor N-7584 On Tour" was made as the 'Tin Goose' flew from the Newark, Ohio airport.
		Another sequence is made from another plane as we follow the Ford to a smooth landing.
	jerees.home.att.net /trimtrVid.html (347 words)

	2003 National Air Tours - Sponsored by the Aviation Foundation of America, Inc.
		Ford, N414H, 1929, #17 5-AT-5-CS This aircraft is piloted by Bryan Godlove, Captain (Grand Canyon Airlines) of North Las Vegas, NV and John C. Dillon (Grand Canyon Airlines) of Grand Canyon, AZ.
		His hobby is flying the "trailing edge of technology" as the Chief Pilot and Captain for the Grand Canyon Airlines Ford Trimotor, the airplane where commercial aviation began.
		Bryan lost his father a few years ago but is now occasionally joined in the Ford Trimotor cockpit by his 12-year-old son, Kelby Godlove who is probably the youngest person ever to have logged many hours in a Ford Trimotor.
	www.nationalairtour.org /pilotplanespeople/aircraft_info.cfm?aircraft_id=12 (1242 words)

	Ford Trimotor Restoration
		Three former Island Airlines Ford Tri-Motor airplanes undergoing restoration, at Hov-Aire in Vicksburg, Michigan, are represented in this photo.
		On the left is N7584 the last trimotor to fly at Put-in-Bay.
		On the right is N7684, the island tri-motor that crashed at Port Clinton in 1972.
	www.putinbayphotos.com /trimtr04/trimtr04.htm (71 words)

	Ford Trimotor, Designed by William Stout, NAS, Pensacola, 1938
		The Ford Trimotor was based on the general layout of the highly successful Fokker F.VII/3m (q.v.) three-engined high-wing monoplane, except that the Ford was all-metal --- even to its corrugated metal skinning which earned it the nickname "Tin Goose".
		Many were built and used in different parts of the world, particularly in the less-developed areas, for which the Ford was ideal.
		The original Ford trimotor was not as it was finally produced.
	home.earthlink.net /~ralphcooper/pimagb19.htm (480 words)

	Ford Tin Goose (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Today it is one of the dozen or so Ford trimotors known to be in existence and still flying, a model 5-AT-B that was built in March, 1929.
		When TWA (successor to TAT) phased out its trimotor operations, the plane, License Number N-9651 was sold to the Radio Corporation of America and was all plushed-up as an executive aircraft.
		It was at this time that the trimotor received a new sheet dural skin, replacing the original corrugated type, making it the only "smooth-skinned" Ford trimotor in existence.
	www.moxon.org /aircraft/ford.htm (932 words)

	National Postal Museum
		In 1925, automobile giant Henry Ford won a contract to fly mail between Chicago and Detroit and Cleveland.
		At first, Ford used airplanes his company had been using to transport automobile parts between assembly plants.
		Made of a new material, duralumin, the Trimotor was one of the first all metal airplanes.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2c2b5_trimotor.html (417 words)

	Welcome to FordTriMotor.Org
		This web site is a tribute to the Ford Tri-Motor and is dedicated to the the visionaries and pioneers who contributed so much to the development of early aviation.
		This site is also a salute to the many people who have committed themselves to keeping the Ford Tri-Motor flying.
		Also, please let us know what you would like to see on this site.
	www.fordtrimotor.org (92 words)

	Ford Trimotor
		The Ford trimotor was based on the Stout 2-AT Pullman.
		The 4-AT and improved 5-AT were the most produced Ford Trimotors with around 200 being built when production ended in 1932.
		Also known as the "Tin Goose", the Ford Trimotor was also purchased by the U.S. Army and Navy.
	www.shanaberger.com /ford_trimotor.htm (111 words)

	Lucker - DC-3
		The Ford Trimotor, one of the most popular commercial aircraft of the late 20s and early 30s was never profitable as a commercial venture in carrying passengers.
		This faulty design was found to be the probable cause of a tragic crash of a Fokker Trimotor in 1931 which took the life of Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne and did much to increase the public's fear of flying.
		The deciding factor was the record of reliability earned by the latest jet engines.) Fallible as the Trimotor's engines were, they were a solution to a problem which had only been solved a decade earlier: how to get maximum engine power without making the aircraft too heavy to fly to profitably carry freight or passengers.
	www.princeton.edu /~hos/mike/texts/readmach/lucker.htm (1985 words)

	'77 Ford Trimotor -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Like his grandfather, Henry Ford II is not a man to share power.
		Henry II said that the purpose of the triumvirate is to "provide a vehicle for some Ford to sit in that office when I retire at 65." That would be in 1982, but Henry insisted that he did not know who it would be.
		Ford could serve out his term, Caldwell could succeed him, retire himself, and lacocca still would be young enough to move into the chairman's job—assuming Edsel Ford did not make it.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,918878,00.html (589 words)

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	www.webshots.com /search?query=Ford (348 words)

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