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The Saga of the Tin Goose - The Story of the Ford Tri-Motor 3rd Edition 2012 (Paperback)
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The Saga of the Tin Goose - The Story of the Ford Tri-Motor 3rd Edition 2012 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R544
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It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell
Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin
Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United
States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but
they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing
almost everything we have in air travel today-from stewardesses to
concrete runways in airports. All major airlines started with this
plane. Byrd flew to the South Pole in one. FDR dreamed up the New
Deal flying in another to the Chicago convention where he was
nominated for president. In a Ford Tri-Motor, Lindbergh inaugurated
the first transcontinental air service. And when speedier Boeings
and Douglases pushed the Ford Tri-Motor off the major air routes,
the Tin Goose kept flying commercially for another fifty years,
barnstorming from city to city giving hundreds of thousands of
Americans their first plane ride, dusting crops and fire-fighting
in the Midwest, and hauling freight and passengers into remote
Central American jungles and over the Andes. This revised and
updated edition of The Saga of the Tin Goose relates the story of
this remarkable plane from its 1920s beginnings to the present, and
tells where you can see and fl y Ford Tri-Motors today. "This is
not only the story of Mr. Ford's venerable Trimotor, it is a highly
readable and complete history of commercial aviation and scheduled
airlines..." -AVIATION "Airplane buffs will find plenty of detail
on the design and performance of the Trimotor and other famous
planes... This tightly organized, factual presentation, enhanced by
old photographs, conveys a sense of the precariousness of early
aviation..." -THE KIRKUS REVIEWS "David Ansel Weiss has written
lovingly and with a professional storyteller skill of the
almost-legendary plane that changed fl edgling aviation's fl
y-by-night operations into the giant airline industry of today."
-ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
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