To: DFG
“Oldest passenger plane?” There 18 airworthy Ford Trimotors still around and at least three of them are carrying paying passengers. The last Trimotor was built in 1933!
10 posted on
09/18/2022 12:53:49 PM PDT by
Chainmail
(Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
To: Chainmail
> There 18 airworthy Ford Trimotors still around
I got a chance to go up in one a few years ago. Way cool !
Until a few years ago a Trimotor flew a regular passenger route from one of the Lake Erie islands to the mainland.
Built like a tank (which Ford also made) with the same build quality of a Model T.
37 posted on
09/18/2022 1:51:56 PM PDT by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: Chainmail
“Oldest passenger plane?” There 18 airworthy Ford Trimotors still around and at least three of them are carrying paying passengers. The last Trimotor was built in 1933! I remember as a kid reading an article called "The Last Gasp of the Tin Goose" about the recreation of the TWA transcontinental flights using the Trimotor.
57 posted on
09/18/2022 3:46:39 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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