Ford Trimotor

Boeing innovations: Sometimes lucrative, sometimes a bust

Edit The Miami Herald 08 May 2016

Austin Ballard steadied himself on a wooden ladder and threaded a cable capped with a tiny camera lens into a cylinder on one of the Boeing 247's engines. With his eyes on the display screen at his side, he guided the camera around the hollow space ... Boeing 247 ... Six passengers and two pilots crowded into the Fokker F.10 trimotor ... But the only all-metal plane available at the time, the Ford Trimotor, was slow and expensive to run ... ....

Emmaus man, 94, remembers Pearl Harbor attack

Edit The Morning Call 07 Dec 2015

Standing with his father, 5-year-old Gary Runey looked up from a field on the family farm near Madison, Wis., and marveled at a Jenny biplane in flight. When he was 16, he paid for a 15-minute night ride in a barnstorming Ford Trimotor that circled over a semi-pro baseball game. The boy wanted to... ....

Eastern Airlines officially returns to the skies with charter flights to Havana

Edit The Examiner 06 Jul 2015

Back in the day Eastern Airlines was one of the top US carriers taking travelers from Los Angeles to various parts of the world such as Florida, the Caribbean, Europe and more. Then around 1991 the airline went bust in a sort of huff. Many of its frequent flyers rued the loss ... According to a new story on eturbonews, ... Eastern history ... At that time the fleet consisted of three Ford Trimotors and two Fokker F-X aircraft ... ....

It’s gone quiet after Fiat Chrysler call for merger

Edit Detroit news 17 May 2015

Neil Winton, Special to The Detroit News 3.06 p.m. EDT May 17, 2015. FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne(Photo. John T. Greilick / The Detroit News). CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. It’s probably safe to assume there is not a line forming outside Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) headquarters of big automakers seeking a merger, or to talk about saving the industry from itself ... Lone voice ... Think Ford and the Trimotor aeroplane,” Williams said ... ....

B-17 exhibit at SRQ hopes to draw WWII aviators as well as onlookers

Edit Herald Tribune 02 Feb 2015

SARASOTA - The first time Chris Henry saw the casualty figures he had to double check to make sure he got it right. But the numbers squared. Facts. INTERESTED?. The Aviators Roundtable is set for 7 p.m ... That's something to think about.” ... That's when a B-17, the workhorse of the Eighth Air Force, will be available for tourist rides, alongside an equally rare Ford Trimotor “Tin Goose,” which stopped production in 1933 ... ....

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Edit Herald Tribune 01 Feb 2015

The first time Chris Henry saw the casualty figures he had to double check to make sure he got it right. But the numbers squared. Facts. INTERESTED?. The Aviators Roundtable is set for 7 p.m ... That’s something to think about.” ... That’s when a B-17, the workhorse of the Eighth Air Force, will be available for tourist rides, alongside an equally rare Ford Trimotor “Tin Goose,” which stopped production in 1933 ... ....

Jerrie Mock obituary

Edit The Guardian 07 Oct 2014

First woman to fly solo around the world. Jerrie Mock checking her gas tanks in 1964. Photograph. Robert W Klein/AP ... I knew one thing ... Having flown for the first time in 1930 with her father, in the cockpit of a Ford Trimotor transport, she was the only girl at her school taking an engineering course, just as she was, in 1943, the only woman enrolled for an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio State University ... ....

Jerrie Mock, aviator: First woman to fly solo around the world

Edit The Independent 03 Oct 2014

Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock, who has died at the age of 88, was the first woman to fly solo around the world ... When he was raising money for her statue, Bill would have to explain to everyone who she was.” ... Born in Newark in 1925, she became fascinated by flying when she was seven years old and she and her father had the opportunity to fly in the cockpit of a Ford Trimotor airplane ... Geraldine Fredritz, aviator ... World News in Pictures . ....