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.)
View of busy city streets in Detroit, Michigan. Heavy vehicular traffic. Detroit business district with streetcars, automobile, pedestrian traffic, sight seeing buses and other vehicles. Policemen on elevated booth directs traffic. Sign on booth reads, 'Drive Safely, Walk Right' Traffic along a tree lined street.
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.
View of busy city streets in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit business district with streetcars, automobile and pedestrian traffic, sight seeing buses and other vehicles. A signs advertising Western Union and the Bungalow Sandwich Shoppe are seen
A caravan of Ford cars and trucks move along a country road in Detroit, Michigan.
Several homes in residential areas of Detroit, Michigan. Residents outside their homes. Snow on the ground and leafless trees.
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