Aviatrix (Woman pilot) Nancy Hopkins, who was invited to fly in the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour, is seen in the cockpit of her Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, manufactured by the Viking Flying Boat Company. ("Kitty Hawk" is written on her plane's vertical stabilizer.) She has been assigned the number 22 for this event, which starts at the Ford Airport in Dearborn Michigan. Scene shifts to A Waco CSO J6-7 airplane, serial number NC634N, taking off. A large formation of U.S. Army Boeing P-12 biplanes flies overhead. Crowd of spectators is gathered on ramp behind the airport terminal. The Army airplanes fly back overhead again. In foreground, a Ford Trimotor passenger airplane sits with its 3 engines running. Bill Stout of Ford's Stout Metal Aircraft Company shakes hands with Texaco Company's pilot, Captain Frank M. Hawks, in the cockpit of his Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship," named Texaco 13. Photographer takes their picture. (Hawks is a tour referee, and about to depart for Grand Forks to make advance preparations there.) Mrs. Henry Ford steps up and also shakes Hawks' hand. He waves goodbye and taxis out for takeoff.
The Detroit News Balloon Race in Dearborn, Michigan. Balloons ascend near a mooring mast during the Detroit News Balloon Race.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The president of the Ford Motor Company Edsel Ford with a flag on Ford Airport. Edsel flags off an aircraft. Another aircraft taxis and takes off. Tail section of a parked aircraft.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford talks to a man at Ford Airport. Henry Ford and a man with a tractor in the background. They talk near an aircraft as men work on it.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford talks to a group of men and women near a Ford aircraft at Ford Airport. A group of men arrive in a car. A bi-winged aircraft on a field as its propellers rotate. Bi-plane number 14 and number 24 on the field. Men stand around a parked car. The car being driven away. Henry Ford and others talk as they lean against a tractor.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Various aircraft fly over Ford Airport. An aircraft comes in and lands at the airport. An aircraft flies low over an airfield. A vehicle tows an aircraft on a field. Aircraft parked on the airport. An aircraft flies over the parked airplanes.
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