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 ...64 FLIGHT
nerofthe famous Ford Trimotor—the Stout Pullman of W25.
1926 The experiments of the Englishman Dunne with
his early tailless machines will be recalled; and here recognised,
with a picture of the Westland-built Pte...
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 ...umbers were amongst
the classic and vintage types and the warbirds.
Two hot and slippery types were the Brokaw-jones
BJ-520 I and the Polen Special 3, which is reputed
to do 282kt on 200 h.p. The Ford Trimotor 2 provided
dignified joy rides. Much modified SNJ-5 Zero 4 from
the film "Tora, Tora, Tora". Thorp TI8 5. The last
known example of the Vultee V-l 6, a type said never
to have killed...
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and flew it prudently as befits its age, followed by 74-year-old Arthur
Hartman in his Curtiss JN-4D.
Fabulous Old Ford
John Louck and crew again sold joy-rides in their venerable,
white-painted Ford Trimotor and were kept rather busy; on one day
the old plane made 42 flights, each time carrying a full load of 15
passengers. In fact, personnel of the scheduled Ozark Airlines which
serves R...
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quilla-Cienaga, Barranquilla-Cartagena, Bar
ranq uilla-Pato, Barranq uilla-Buena ventura,
and Barranquilla-Turbo.
S E R V IC I O AEREO COLUMBIANO.
Address.—Bogota. Fleet.—2 Lockheed
Electras, 1 Ford Trimotor, 2 Curtiss Con
dors and 3 Curtiss Kingbird. Routes served.
—Bogota-Medellin-Cartago-Cali, and Medel
lin-Bogota.
URABA, MEDELLIN AND CENTRA
AIRWAYS, INC.
Address.—Medellin. Fleet.—N...
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 ... are air-minded Guatemalans, for
the airport is close to the capital city. It is used for mail
services by the Cia. Nacional de Aviacion, which has been in
existence for some seven years now.
The Ford Trimotor
A later type than the Dornier—a landplane of almost equal
popularity—appears on the 70 c. value in the Peruvian series
already referred to. It is a Ford Trimotor, seen over one of
Pe...
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 ...s computer-controlled skywriting
with six SNJ-2s. 2 This joy-riding
Stinson TriMotor is one of only two
remaining from a total of 52 built in
the 1930s. In its heyday it cost half
the price of a Ford TriMotor and
was a popular small airliner on US
domestic routes. 3 Nasa's AD-1
slewed-wing prototype. 4 B-24 of the
Confederate Air Force. 5 Trio of 225-
h.p. Lycoming radials on the Stinson ...
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52 They will fly-by Jupiter, Saturn
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 ...r 33 min on May 6,1941.
(7) The Stinson Detroiter (200
h.p. Wright Whirlwind) in
which William 5. Brock and
Edward F. Schlee attempted
a round-the-world flight in
1927; they retired at Tokyo.
(8) The Ford Trimotor (two 220
h.p. Wright Whirlwinds and
one 575 h.p. Cyclone)inwhich
Admiral Byrd flew over the
South Pole in November, 1929.
(9) The Fokker F.VII/3m (three
Wright J-4 200 h.p. engines)
in w...
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 ...lage of Ford.Until 1928, however, it was called Yapton Aerodrome. It was then
taken over by the Ford Motor Company and renamed. Theintention was to operate a passenger service to the Continent,
using Ford Trimotor aircraft. However, the company failed toobtain a certificate of airworthiness from the Air Ministry, and the
project was abandoned in 1931 when the airfield became the homeof Sir Alan Co...
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Bogota-Villa Vicencio-P. Carene, Bogota-
Coucaya-Leticia, Bogota-Barranquilla,
Bogota-Honda, Barranquilla-Medellin,
Bogota-Cali, Baranquilla-Pato and Bar-
ranquilla - Tumaco. Fleet: 4 Boeing
247, 7 Ford Trimotors, 2 Junkers F.13,
4 junkers W.34 ar>d 2 Sikorsky S.38.
SERVICIO AEREO COLOMBIANA
(S.A.C.O.), Bogota.—Routes served:
Bogota-Medellin. Fleet: 1 Ford Tri-
motor, 2 Curtiss Condor and 3 Curt...
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 ...even more war work,
producing more than 57,000 aero
engines and 4,200 troop-carrying
gliders. A factory near Detroit mass-
produced B-24 Liberators on a pro
duction line about one mile long.
The Ford Trimotor ("Tin Goose") was developed from the Stout 2-AT Detroit-built Liberators photographed in 1943
FLIGHT International, 14 May 1983 134...
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 ...FLIGHT, AUGUST 5, 1932
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 ...rectly to sadness. EAA fly-ins have had an astonish
ing safety record, but there is such a thing as the law of averages.
Perhaps as an omen, small things went wrong. John Louck's
passenger-hopping Ford Trimotor had an outboard engine catch
fire just before the fly-in started, and was kept on the ground much
of the time by persistent brake trouble. Four or five small aircraft
and antiques suf...
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 ...rical listings the figures in parentheses are the aircraft
still to be delivered and the notation (L) means "on lease."
The oldest types still in service (with service entry date in
Parentheses) are: Ford Trimotor (June 1926); Douglas Dolphin
C932); Boeing 247D (April 1933); Junkers Ju52/3M (May19
33); Douglas DC-2 (May 1934); DH Rapide (July 1934);
Lockheed 10 (August 1934); Boeing B-17 (first fl...
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 ...ernathnal, I February 1968
HOPE that the Editor will forgive me,
but last week's editorial contained a
Glaring Omission. I quote: "The
Harrier, Jaguar, Phantom, VC10 and
Vimrod will look up to no othe...
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 ...plane (with retractable undercarriage) of 1933—the first
sleeper-airliner—which he and Ted Wright brought into airline
service with American Airways across the United States, as a
successor to the Ford Trimotor and ahead of the JDC-2.
For Geoffrey de Havilland, the aeroplane which brought his com
pany financial success, the prototype D.H.60 Cirrus Moth, G-EBKT.
D.H. himself made the first fl...
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 ...FLIGHT International. 17 Jul/ 1969
Three men to the Moon
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins were selected from 52 astronauts currently on
NASA's active list. Nine further Apollo fligh...
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 ...Supersonic British Airways
service, 1976 (2 marks); V Doolittle
and Harris (USAF High Wycombe,
England, 1976) (2 marks); W Bob
Hoover; X America's new National
Air and Space Museum, Washington;
Ford Trimotor; DC-3; Boeing 247;
Northrop Alpha (5 marks); Y Mus
tang, Bfl09 (Merlin), and Lightning;
Confederate Air Force Flying Museum,
Texas (5 marks); Z VFW 614; Patri
otic Jubilee Bonus Lau...
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 ...SHKOSH 85
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 ...or $3
Squillions' worth of Megabirds which have the same capacity as the Wonder-
planes would have had. We had to spend that money as a way of getting out of
bankruptcy. Do you like my new suit?"
(Ford Trimotor, 1930s)
So, the last flying Vulcan
is a flying Vulcan no
more: XH558 has gone to
Bruntingthorpe in Leic
estershire, to be a mu
seum-piece. No more will
the god of fire rattle your...
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