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1930 Ford Commercial Reliabiity Tour activities at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Michigan

Visitors walking about on the ramp of the Ford Airport, in Dearborn Michigan, during the 1930 Ford Commercial Reliability Tour. Many are lined up by a fence, looking at a squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit airplanes parked in the grass. Scene shifts to closer to terminal building where visitors stroll amongst a variety of planes parked on the ramp. Buildings of the Greenfield Village are seen in the background, especially the Clock Tower. In near background, the squadron of P-1 airplanes have engines running. Camera moves and focuses on those aircraft. A light plane is seen inflight overhead. One of the P-1s taxis on the ramp. Next, woman aviator, Nancy Hopkins is seen in the cockpit of her Viking Kitty Hawk B4 biplane, NC30V. She is wearing helmet and goggles, and appears to have just parked her airplane. Two men greet her (one wearing a cowboy hat, of sorts). She turns and smiles for the camera. Then she removes helmet and goggles and climbs down from the cockpit, to pose next to her airplane, displaying the number “22” on its fuselage. On the plane’s tail, is written,”Kittyhawk” in large letters, followed by “ Kittyhawk Flying Boat Company, New Haven, Conn.” Camera shows formations of U.S. Army P-1s in flights of three, airborne overhead. A solo stunt airplane is seen next.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066167
William Stout, executive at Ford Motor Company, and aviatrix Nancy Hopkins during Ford Airplane Reliability Tour in the U.S.

Aircraft parked in a row on the airfield during the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at Ford Airport. Woman pilot, Nancy Hopkins,poses for the camera, wearing a leather jacket and a beret. Men in view behind her on the airfield. William Stout, an executive at the Ford Motor Company, converses with three men. Next, they are seen in front of a Ford Trimotor airplane. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit planes is seen parked in a line on the grass. The Clock Tower at Greenfield Village appears in the background behind them. From a height above, the camera pans over spectators lined up on the ramp at edge of the flying field.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066184
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931

The start of the 1931 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931. Opening footage at forefront right shows the Gee Bee model E Sportster flown by Lowell Bayles to a fourth place finish. Forefront center-left is the Great Lakes biplane flown by Joeseph Meehan. A number of various aircraft are parked on the airfield, including an autogyro. Visitors on the airport ramp look at airplanes on display. The museum clock tower and other buildings at Greenfield Village are visible in the background. View looking outward from inside a hanger. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Boeing P-12 pursuit airplanes parked in rows, with propellers all set horizontally. A light high wing monoplane takes off followed, successively, by two Ford trimotor passenger aircraft equipped with wheel pants. View of a biplane landing. A crowd standing in front of a hangar and several officials standing in the grass. People posing on the ramp with airport building in background.

Date: 1931, July 4
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066188
Dayton Ohio street, Wright home, workshop, the Wright Museum and the first glider flight of the Wright brothers in the United States.

A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.

Date: 1953
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068444
Spectators lined at a roadway for Henry Ford's funeral in Dearborn, Michigan.

Founder of the Ford Motor Company Henry Ford's funeral in Dearborn, Michigan. Aerial view of residential areas, countryside and a large estate. Aerial view of Greenfield village and Ford Airport. Aerial view of highways and automobile traffic. Spectators lining a roadway.

Date: 1947
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068460
Highlights in life of Henry Ford from 1863 through circa 1920

A 1950 film depicting highlights in the life of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, in the United States. The Henry Ford Museum Clock Tower and Greenfield Village. Children enter the museum. Pictures of Henry Ford on a quadricycle. Henry Ford with others working in a workshop. A picture of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison with their spouses. A picture of Henry Ford sitting near a fire place. Sketches depict the Battle of Gettysburg of 1863. A dramatization : Exteriors of the house of William Ford. William Ford runs up a flight of stairs as his wife Mary Litogot Ford gives birth to Henry Ford. Scene shifts to the boy Henry Ford going out of his home to play. Young Henry Ford working with various mechanical gadgets. Henry Ford with William Ford in a horse drawn wagon. Henry Ford runs and climbs on a steam engine. He goes out from the house for work. He works in a jewelry shop. Henry Ford works in the night. A clock on a wall. Henry Ford with his quadricycle. He rides his qudricycle. Farmers work in a field. Workers use various machinery for construction. People assemble parts of Henry Ford quadricycle. Development of faster production methods using specialization. Ford Model T cars on an assembly line.

Date: 1950
Duration: 7 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068464