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1957
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410 FLIGHT (1) Reconstruction of the cycle shop in which, between 1896 and 1906, Wilbur and Orville Wright made parts for their first gliders and aeroplanes. (2) Boeing 40-B2 of 1927, one of a fleet of 24 built for the first scheduled transcontin- ental passenger and mail service. The engine is a Pratt and Whitney Hornet. (3) Retractable landing-gear in 1920: the Baumann RB racer (which also had a variable- camber wing) built by the Dayton-Wright company for the Gordon Bennett race. (4) Standard J.I biplane used for primary training in World War I. Designed by Charles H. Day in 1916, it was powered by a Hispano engine. (5) The Ford "Flivver" (35 h.p. Anzani) of 1928. When three had been built, and a test pilot killed, Henry Ford stopped further production. 5 HONOURABLE RETIREMENT How America Cares for her Historic Aircraft AMERICA'S way of preserving and exhibiting historic aircraft sets an example which makes the efforts ofother nations, including Great Britain, look woefully inadequate by comparison. The basic reason for the difference is, of course, a financial one; many such institutions in the United States owe both their foundationand their maintenance to big industrialists. In these two pages are illustrated some of the aircraft exhibits in the Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn,near Detroit They stand in the main gallery, which occupies eight acres of the museum's eleven, and they share it with, among other exhibits, 175 early automobiles and 12 steam locomotives. Adjoining the museumis a 200-acre village and nearly 100 "famous homes and workshops" transported from their original foundations in other parts of the United States; included among them is the Wright brothers' cycle shop,brought from Dayton, Ohio. Both museum and village are open to the public all the year round.
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