The Ford Trimotor (also called the "Tri-Motor", and nicknamed the "Tin Goose") is an American three-engined transport aircraft. Production started in...
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company was purchased by Ford Motor Company in 1924 and later produced the Ford Trimotor. At the height of the Great Depression, Ford closed the aircraft design...
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and one on the tail. The best known trimotors are the Fokker F, Ford AT, and Junkers Ju series aircraft. Ford Trimotor, a pioneering all-metal triplane Fokker...
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Stout Bushmaster 2000 (category Trimotors)
the Ford Trimotor design. Work began in 1953 by testing a vintage Trimotor and in 1954 Bill Stout purchased the design rights to the original Trimotor. Due...
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Stout 3-AT (category Trimotors)
3-AT trimotor was the first all-metal trimotor built in America. The poorly performing tri-motor led to an updated design which became the popular Ford Tri-Motor...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Ford Trimotor)
Wayne was depicted piloting a Ford Trimotor in several episodes of the 1932 serial film Hurricane Express. A Ford Trimotor appeared in Chapter 1 of Flash...
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classic and antique cars, as well as a Messerschmitt Me 262 aircraft, a Ford trimotor aircraft, a Pullman railroad dining car, and a totem pole. The hangar...
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Division of the Ford Motor Company Universal Credit Corporation Ford Model T Ford Model A Ford Trimotor Ford Quadricycle Assembly line Fordism History of the...
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travelled overnight to Columbus, Ohio. There, passengers boarded a Ford Trimotor aircraft at what is now John Glenn Columbus International Airport, and...
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Ford Trimotor was Henry Ford's first successful commercial aircraft venture in 1925. Following the Ford Model T as an "everyman's" vehicle, the Ford Flivver...
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manufacturing until 1925, when Ford acquired the Stout Metal Airplane Company. Ford's most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor, often called the "Tin...
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competition in 1963, 1964 and 1976. As well as cars, Harrah owned a Ford Trimotor, early airliner. After Bill Harrah's death, Holiday Inn acquired Harrah's...
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William Bushnell Stout (category Ford executives)
Stout designed an aircraft that eventually became the Ford Trimotor and was an executive at the Ford Motor Company. William Bushnell "Bill" Stout was born...
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civil aircraft, including the earliest versions of the Fokker Trimotor and Ford Trimotor airliners. The reliability of J-5 Whirlwind engines also led aviators...
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from Europe, on April 13, 1928. Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen flew a Ford Trimotor to pick up the three stranded Bremen Flyers. Bennett had developed pneumonia...
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Fokker F.VII (redirect from Fokker trimotor)
The Fokker F.VII, also known as the Fokker Trimotor, was an airliner produced in the 1920s by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker, Fokker's American...
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Pan American-Grace Airways (section Ford Motor Company)
Mountains. Pan American Grace's Ford Trimotor airliner departed Buenos Aires, Argentina, and headed toward Chile. The venerable Ford flew over the flat pampas...
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Plateau was first observed and photographed from the air in 1929 by a Ford Trimotor aeroplane carrying four men on the first flight to the South Pole and...
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weather closes the mountain pass. Geoff decides to try to fly a new Ford Trimotor over the mountains instead. The Kid asks to go with him as co-pilot...
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Boeing 757-200 One crashed as Flight 173. McDonnell Douglas DC-8-70 Ford Trimotor Unknown 1931 Unknown Unknown Operated on a transcontinental route...
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airplane flight in Warren, Ohio, when he and his father took a ride in a Ford Trimotor (also known as the "Tin Goose"). The family's last move was in 1944...
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superiority over the most-used airliners at that time, the Ford Trimotor and Fokker Trimotor. It was flown across the United States on February 19, 1934...
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controlling stake in Mexicana de Aviación and took over Mexicana's Ford Trimotor route between Brownsville, Texas and Mexico City, extending this service...
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Fokker Universal (1926) Fokker Super Universal (1928) Fokker F.11 (1928) Ford Trimotor (1926) Found FBA-2 (1960) GAF Nomad (1971) Gippsland GA8 (1995) Gippsland...
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maneuvers and procedures. This is most typical in older aircraft (i.e. Ford Trimotor, N-B25, B17, etc.) Canada follows US FAA and ICAO standards for fixed-wing...
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were driven largely by the Rockne crash: Ford Trimotor Airlines first turned to the all-metal Ford Trimotor—a slow, boxy three-engined aircraft similar...
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size matching the A4 paper size C-4, the US Army designation of the Ford Trimotor AEG C.IV, a German World War I reconnaissance aircraft AGO C.IV, a 1917...
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experimental autogyro HMS C9, a British submarine Ford C-9, a US military designation for the Ford Trimotor aircraft McDonnell Douglas C-9, a US Air Force...
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disparagingly referring to the aircraft as a Mach 3 variant of the 1920s-era Ford Trimotor, which was known for its corrugated aluminum skin. But high heat would...
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1925, however, the Ford Motor Company bought out the Stout Aircraft Company and began construction of the all-metal Ford Trimotor, which became the first...
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