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- Margaret Love and Kenneth Schwartz with 1928 Ford "Flivver" Monoplane, 1953 - Just as he put the world on wheels with the Model T, Henry Ford hoped to give it wings with a small, affordable airplane. A few prototype Flivver planes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after test pilot Harry Brooks was killed in a Flivver crash in 1928. One of the remaining prototypes went to Ford's museum.
- 1953
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Margaret Love and Kenneth Schwartz with 1928 Ford "Flivver" Monoplane, 1953
Just as he put the world on wheels with the Model T, Henry Ford hoped to give it wings with a small, affordable airplane. A few prototype Flivver planes were built, but Ford abandoned the project after test pilot Harry Brooks was killed in a Flivver crash in 1928. One of the remaining prototypes went to Ford's museum.