Detroit News--Aircraft--Ford Flivver Plane--Harry Brooks in Plane--Item1
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The Detroit News photographed test pilot Harry Brooks flying a Ford Flivver airplane. The Flivver was Henry Ford's attempt to create a small, affordable airplane that almost anyone could fly -- a Model T for the sky. Three or four prototypes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after Brooks died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
The Detroit News photographed test pilot Harry Brooks flying a Ford Flivver airplane. The Flivver was Henry Ford's attempt to create a small, affordable airplane that almost anyone could fly -- a Model T for the sky. Three or four prototypes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after Brooks died in a Flivver crash near Melbourne, Florida, in 1928.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
August 1927
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2014.68.X.65.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of The Detroit News.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5.000 in
Width: 7.000 in
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