When Henry Ford examined Lawrence Sperry's Messenger Plane at the Detroit Aviation races of 1922, he pronounced it possible to build such small planes in production more cheaply than his own well-known product. Ever since, frequent rumors have credited the great manufacturer as planning the construction of an army of "flivver"' airplanes to make flying as popular as automobiling. But the Fords are wiser than to imagine that this is immediately possible. They are, indeed, in aviation, but not building airplanes, nor trying to popularize them.
Henry Ford and his son, Edsel,...
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