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Henry Ford's Aviation Ventures 1924 - 1936 (1996) (Visit this link)

This is a 40 minute narrated VHS video, edited from over 1,000,000 feet of motion picture film taken by cameramen of Ford Motor Company's Photographic Laboratory in the 1920s and 1930s. It covers Henry Ford's legacy to aviation, especially his contribution to the Golden Age of aviation when most airlines started their passenger service with the famous Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Coverage includes: Aerial views of Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford's single engine, Stout designed, airplane. Ford's Air Transport Service between Detroit and Cleveland. Airplane construction. Charles Lindbergh's visit to Ford Airport in 1927. Ford's personal Flivver of the air. Docking of the Army and Navy dirigibles at the Ford mooring mast and much more. The greater portion of this video, most of which has never been seen by the public, was obtained from the National Archives which received over a million feet of film from the Ford Motor Company in 1963. Key segments, however, such as the first flight of Ford's first two Tri-Motor airplanes, were found in the archives of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village and had never been reviewed, even by aviation historians.

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