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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Ford Trimotor. AAHS Journal. 39. American Aviation Historical Society. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) William T. Larkins. The Ford...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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promote the use of brakes which were unpopular at the time. The new Ford Trimotor had a prop failure that shook loose one landing gear and an engine on...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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explosive related to C4 C-3, a United States military designation for the Ford Trimotor the designation for several German World War I and World War II armed...
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Boeing 80 (category Trimotors)
early 1928 designed a trimotor aircraft capable of carrying 12 passengers, the Model 80. Unlike the Fokker F-10 and Ford Trimotors operated by other U.S...
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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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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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