Subject is the 1926 Ford "National Air Tour for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy," which started at Ford Field, Dearborn, Michigan, on August 7, 1926. Film opens showing a parked biplane with tandem open cockpits. It has an unusual exhaust gathering container atop its engine and an exhaust pipe extending straight down below the fuselage. Camera shows the same aircraft from the rear, with hangar and terminal building in background. Another parked biplane displays the number "19." It is equipped with small interconnected wing flaps on its upper and lower wings. Next is seen a Woodson Model 2-A Biplane with number 14 on its fuselage and another biplane marked Number 11. Closeup of Henry Ford leaning out of a car, talking with a cinematographer, holding a camera, and reporters. A large group of persons involved in the events pose for a photograph. The camera pans across them as they pose in front of a hangar. Scene shifts to spectators crowding around a Ford-Stout 2-AT aircraft as it begins its takeoff roll. Camera follows the airplane as it continues and becomes airborne.
Biplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. View of a biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. 'Mercury' and 'Aerial Service Corp' written on the rudder of the biplane. Number '11' written on the side of the aircraft. The buildings on the airport in the background. Another biplane on the airfield. The motor of the aircraft. The landing gear with the wheel removed, and the with the wheel attached. The rudder of the biplane in view.
Airplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. View of a biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. Two men beside the biplane. Number '15' written on the fuselage of the aircraft. Another biplane with number '3' written on the fuselage. A biplane on the airfield with number '5' written on the rudder. Another biplane with number '22' written on the fuselage. A monoplane on the airfield. The motor of the monoplane and a lever beside the motor in view. 'Ryan M-1' written on the rudder of the monoplane. Number '23' written on the side of the monoplane. A man working on the stabilizer of the Ryan monoplane. A biplane beside a building on the airport, with number '20' written on the fuselage. The biplane on the runway and a few men beside the biplane.
Airplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. View of a biplane on the runway of the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. A man beside the biplane. A small monoplane on the airfield beside a few buildings. A few men looking at the monoplane. Number '24' written on the fuselage of the monoplane. The front part of the monoplane. A man under one of the wings of the monoplane.
Biplanes at the Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan, United States. View of a biplane on the airfield at the Ford Airport at the Airplane Reliability Tour. Number '6' written on the rudder of the aircraft. 'Niles' written on the side of the aircraft. A few men beside a building in the background. Another biplane on the airfield. A part of the biplane beside the wheel. 'Travel Air Mfg. Co. Inc. Wichita Kansas' written on the rudder of the biplane. Another biplane on the airfield. 'Ford Airport' written on a board on the building in the background. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, seated in a vehicle. A few men standing outside the vehicle. A few men posing in front of a building on the airfield. A few of them standing and a few of them sitting on the ground.
Ford company aircraft in the United States. Interiors of an aircraft factory. Men at work. Men lift a wing from a sealing area.
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