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.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford airplane taxis along a field and takes off. A searchlight revolves at the airport.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. The founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford with a group of men and women. A Ford airplane in the background. He talks to a group of men as others look on in the background. Henry Ford along with a man examines the aircraft. He talks to another man.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Balloons ascend near a mooring mast. People milling about on the ground during the Detroit News Trophy Race.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Two men in an old model Ford car. A sign reads 'Owned by E.H. Bryant'. The car drives past an airplane named 'Ford Maiden Dearborn II'. The car drives through mud on the airfield. Aircraft parked at the airport. A hangar in the background.
Commercial aircraft reliability tour for the Edsel B. Ford Trophy at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. An aircraft at the airport as its propellers rotate. Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford flags off an aircraft. Men on the field with papers in their hands discuss.
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