Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan on October 5, 1929. Film opens showing two aviators in ten-gallon hats standing next to some airplanes parked on the Ford Airport in Detroit Michigan. The pilot on the left is E. W. Cleveland, known for his ten-gallon hat, which is filled with autographs and other written memorabilia pertaining to aviation. Camera shows several formations of biwing training airplanes flying over the field, and then focuses on the Texaco number 13 aircraft with pilot Frank M. Hawks in the cockpit shaking hands with someone seeing him off. Closeup of Hawks sitting upright in the cockpit. Next, his wife Edith Bowie Hawks is seen standing next to his airplane. He playfully touches her cheeks. Next a man is seen wearing a heavy fur coat with hood. He smiles for the camera and then heads into an airport building. The wind (natural or from propellers turning) causes some of the men to hold onto their hats. Views of several men and women and a child gathering in front of the corrugated fuselage of a passenger airplane. Film ends showing two men smiling and chatting with May Halzlip, one of the three women pilots in the tour, who is dressed in flying gear with helmet and goggles on top.
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.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A trimotor aircraft on an airfield. A few men beside the aircraft. Two men and two children move from a vehicle towards the aircraft. A few men on the airfield. Other aircraft on the airfield. Henry Ford, ,son Edsel Ford and Edsel Ford's two sons, with the pilot beside the aircraft. Edsel Ford walks with his two sons towards the craft. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford talking with two other men beside the aircraft.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour, at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. A group of men standing on an airfield, during the Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour. One of the men holding a flag. An aircraft in view behind the men. An aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. The aircraft in flight. The men on the airfield. One of the men flags off a monoplane and a biplane on the runway.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Several people on an airfield. A dirigible in flight. People on the airfield watch the dirigible. The dirigible in low flight, and lands on the airfield. The people standing on the airfield watch the landing.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Several people on an airfield. An aircraft on the airfield. A few hot air balloons moored to the ground. A hot air balloon with a black envelope and two balloons with white envelopes. P 215 written on one of the white balloons. People beside the balloons.
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