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Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company Industrial Complex in Michigan, circa 1928.
Aerial views of the Ford Motor Company industrial complex in Michigan. Glimpse of another airplane flying the opposite direction below. View of Ford Motor Company airport, Detroit, Michigan. Large letters: F O R D displayed in the airport grass.
Group of 21 Curtiss Hawk in Selfridge field, Mich.
Group of 21 Curtiss Hawk aircraft in Selfridge Field, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Men stand in the field. The pursuit planes take off and are seen flying in the sky.
Loading and transportation of coke for Ford Motor Company.
Coke loaded onto conveyor belt passing through various levels at a Ford Motor Company coal processing facility. Coke being dumped in rail cars and then the rail cars move on railroad tracks. Steam engine attached to the loaded coke cars moving on railroad tracks. "Ford" logo on all of the rail cars.
Man attempts to fly the Pitt "Sky Car."
Early attempts at flight during history of aviation. The Pitt Sky Car ornithopter device is seen: A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. 'Sky car' written on a cloth sign on the chassis of the aircraft. A man in aviator's clothing seated at the controls of the machine. The powerful motions of the pulsating rotor cause the machine to rise several inches. But it simply drops to the ground again. This happens with each oscillation of the rotor. (The motor-rotor devise was invented by John W. Pitts, of Detroit, Michigan, and patented in 1926. However, as seen in these images, it was a failure.)
A Ford trimotor airplane in hangar being prepared for flight. The aircraft inflight on its way to Lake St. Agnes, Quebec,Canada
Mechanics perform pre-departure maintenance on a Ford trimotor airplane at a hangar in Detroit, Michigan. Later, pilots Floyd Bennett and Bert Balchen, and others, board and take off. Aerial view from above, of the airplane flying en route to Lac Ste. Agnes (Lake St. Agnes) Quebec, Canada, to bring supplies needed to repair the Junkers aircraft "Bremen" that had crash-landed on Greenly Island after a transatlantic flight.