Harry Brooks with Ford Flivver Airplane #3 at Ford Airport, December 1927
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Artifact Overview
Test pilot Harry Brooks posed with a Ford Flivver airplane in 1927. 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 Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
14 December 1927
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.189.5105
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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