A film about the first commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A group of men waiting at Ford Airport. Pilot Eddie Hamilton of Ford aircraft being given a warm welcome. People gathered around the aircraft. The pilot being carried away on the shoulders of the spectators. He shakes hands with men. Men seated at a dinner table during a banquet given in honor of the pilots.
A Ford 5-AT Tri-motor Float plane is seen being moving under its own power in a river during tests in 1925. (Its first flight was in 1926.) Later, it is seen being towed close to a tugboat, by a line fastened to its nose. Two men in life jackets stand atop its wing, and several follow in a dory. Several men monitor the tow line from the back of the tugboat.
Ford company aircraft in the United States. Interiors of an aircraft factory. Men at work. Men lift a wing from a sealing area.
Ford company aircraft in the United States. Ford Tri motor aircraft being displayed at Michigan State Fair. People milling about in the foreground. A Ford Quadricycle on display at the fair. Ford Tri-Motor aircraft on display. The founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford, the President of the company Edsel Ford and W.B. Mayo talk.
Charles A. Lindbergh visits Henry Ford and some of his staff at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, on his national tour of the 48 States, in his Spirit of St. Louis airplane. He converses with Henry Ford and some pilots and Ford executives. Then he walks to his airplane, where he poses briefly, in flight jacket and raised goggles, for pictures. He then climbs aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, starts its engine, and taxis out.
A C-47aircraft in flight in the United States. The C-47with a dangling cable and a hook trailing behind it flies low over a field. It snags a cable supported between standards. The cable is attached to an Army glider, sitting on the field, which the C-47 proceeds to pull off the ground and into the air. The C-47 continues in flight, towing the U.S. Army Air Corps glider.The action is repeated again by another aircraft and glider.
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