DB Mathews 7u /Jculz DETECTIVE STORY Researching drawings photos colors data aircraft can become hobby unto its self challenges potential rewards directly proportional prototypes rareness obscurity voluminous documentation some fullscale prototypes virtually nothing exists others challenging frustrating searches has materials really rare airplane set drawings CL Scale prototype Ford Flivver done Don Pratt Aviation Archives What really wanted find similar documentation second Flivver #3218 usual sources simply did have thing So October 1993 column made appeal information Ford Flivver pictured Underwood Collinges Lightplanes Since 1909 prototype much appealing well-documented frequently modeled three-cylinder Anzani-powered first prototype Its much pleasing overall esthetics horizontally opposed twin-cylinder engine longer wingspan attractive nose empennage make ideal Scale model subject Bill Hannan developed plastic kit Anzani-powered Flivver Williams Brothers Cedric Galloway suggested making contact NH Hauprich Greensburg OH knew modified Williams kit twin-cylinder version Hauprich has proven gold information preeminent authority Flivvers kindly shared us Longtime friend Dick Gibbs sent clipping aviation magazine information Florida Aviation Historical Society constructing replica #3218 contact made Warren Brown responded photos project some reproduced following excerpted several issues newsletters Florida Aviation Historical Society Box 127 Indian Rocks Beach FL 34635 1926 Ford employee Otto Koppen young engineer MIT assigned design small single-place airplane anyone could fly lly Model T air first Ford Flivver built great secrecy behind locked doors completed made its first public appearance Henry Fords 63rd birthday July 31 1926 Flivver flown day Harry Brooks son Henry Fords neighbors August 10 1927 Detroit-born Charles Lindbergh arrived Detroit tour America following epochmaking flight May viewed Flivver asked Mr Ford could fly course replied Ford will second person late 1927 second Flivver also designed Koppen built new design larger first featured single-place steel-tube fuselage fabric-covered low wing wood construction Ford two-cylinder engine supposed develop 40 hp actually delivered 29 hp Brooks departed Detroit February 21 1928 bound Miami attempt set new distance record aircraft under 1000 pounds gross weight Mechanical trouble bad weather forced attempt to be terminated Ashville NC Feb 25 1928 Brooks departed Detroit again bound Miami starting sendoff Edsel Ford Henry waiting him Miami fuel leak forced landing Tirusville FL nonstop distance 1010 miles set new record flight Flivver used 40 gallons its available 52 average speed 78 mph February 25 late afternoon fuel leak repaired new propeller Brooks started Miami traveled 40 miles near Melbourne FL aircraft observed plunge water just off beach Brooks body never recovered wreckage washed ashore early next morning July1995 59 SERVO MME Size. 175 x 275 x 130 Drives ANY modem servo 0 0 Use favourite connector Available kit built-up REVERSE M*TE Servo reversing module installed between Rx Servo Adjusts/sets netutral reverses dirction servo Supplied wires add connectors match system Assembled tested $1995 SERVICE SAE catalog Ace Airtronlcs Aristo-Craff Cirrus Futaba HItec Hobby Shack J R K-Lku K 0 Propo Krafr Novak Pro-Une RCD Tower Hobbles FACTORY TRAINED AUThORIZED WARRANTY Howu 500 am 500pm EST iwkday call tar Saturday 60 Model Aviation belt harness unbuckled Ford family ordered further development Flying Flivver discontinued first Flivver display Ford Museum Dearborn MI later years Owen Koppen retired Florida participated resurrection second prototypes drawings advised Florida Aviation Historical Society replication Flivver Sadly Mr Koppen passed away before replica could completed writing mid-February 1995 replica has completed ground running tests has developed some brake problems still unflown Enough material has gathered develop scale model Duane Dahoert Richfield MN currently building 1/4-scale models powered twin four-stroke engines relate narrative illustrate couple points First some diligence bit luck can adequately document prototypes still unmodeled second people airplane nuts will make effort help someone serious interest modeling historical projects illustrate latter banker Lawrence KS offered extensive help documenting unrestored Monoprep used construction article Schwizer Corp provided photos rare 1-30 another construction article Charles Lebrecht Wonder Lake IL owned last registered Porterfield Zephyr provided photos use developing article late Walt Mooney provided three-views Aeronca Defender published April 1995 issue magazine Dick Jackson Rochester NH provided excellent material Spartan C2-60 other airplane nuts have provided material over years hate try listing fear someone will left out Superb help cooperation has received other projects Air Force Museum National Archives Smithsonian Imperial War Museum London request help try illustrate seriousness enclosing photo some other subject already built think establishes credibility since full-scale owners manufacturers builders deluged less-than-sincere inquiries would seem sources would like some assurance arent wasting time some dreamer likely never going produce model As always enclosing stamped selfaddressed envelopes just common courtesy nice touch seems much appreciated sending photos completed model sources roll two film replace film used neat way say thank you have Scale subject youve always wanted develop use resources public library network find much information possible such FAA registry fullscale model magazines books Scale plan photo services Thenand thenstart writing museums owners manufacturers etc Dont send send have P-S ls letters homework learn subject can reasonably expect cooperation Little History mid-1920s America becoming airplane mad Lindberghs 1927 flight electrified country no event before since has ever done city leaping airport development investors eager provide startup capital anyone wanted build airplane factory Wichita nearly thirty new manufacturers start up 1927 alone newspapers newsreels filled reports aviation activities incredible absurd Americas preoccupation technology reaching its zenith Also its zenith family owned industrial giant Ford Motor Co Model T Flivver put common man behind wheel automobile reducing time between marketplace work home starting social/economic revolution now know urbanization America Henry Ford son Edsel recognized travel air next great social/economic change hired Bill Stout AMA has perpetual trophy named him develop passenger-carrying aircraft through several evolutions became ubiquitous Ford Trimotor aircraft introduced affordable reliable scheduled airline service much developed world backbone systems years Edsel also envisioned Model T air simple inexpensive airplane use common man daily flights work etc Strangely commercial airline dream came true concept single-place everymans airplane has remained elusive dream Flying Flivver never found mass market nor have other concepts such Mooney Mite Piper Skycycle Lockheed Little Dipper others Only very recent times have some ultralights home-built kits again developed fill niche Ill keep posted Flivver project go along Hopefully everything will turn out well will something Fly Fun S AND SERVICE FOR EVERYTHING R/C ERAFt MIDWESt INC 7420 SEVEN MILE NORTHVILIE MI 48187 8104864800 FAX 810488180S BALSARI TE R/O WONDER JUICE Balsarite makes covering stick better also moisture-proofs wood adds little extra structural strength plus 2 prevents fuelcreep under seams 2 fuelproofs engine compartments 2 attaches raw dacron silk paper tissue wood C0VERFE 420 Babylon Rd Horsham PA 19044
Edition: Model Aviation - 1995/07
Page Numbers: 59, 60
Edition: Model Aviation - 1995/07
Page Numbers: 59, 60
DB Mathews 7u /Jculz DETECTIVE STORY Researching drawings photos colors data aircraft can become hobby unto its self challenges potential rewards directly proportional prototypes rareness obscurity voluminous documentation some fullscale prototypes virtually nothing exists others challenging frustrating searches has materials really rare airplane set drawings CL Scale prototype Ford Flivver done Don Pratt Aviation Archives What really wanted find similar documentation second Flivver #3218 usual sources simply did have thing So October 1993 column made appeal information Ford Flivver pictured Underwood Collinges Lightplanes Since 1909 prototype much appealing well-documented frequently modeled three-cylinder Anzani-powered first prototype Its much pleasing overall esthetics horizontally opposed twin-cylinder engine longer wingspan attractive nose empennage make ideal Scale model subject Bill Hannan developed plastic kit Anzani-powered Flivver Williams Brothers Cedric Galloway suggested making contact NH Hauprich Greensburg OH knew modified Williams kit twin-cylinder version Hauprich has proven gold information preeminent authority Flivvers kindly shared us Longtime friend Dick Gibbs sent clipping aviation magazine information Florida Aviation Historical Society constructing replica #3218 contact made Warren Brown responded photos project some reproduced following excerpted several issues newsletters Florida Aviation Historical Society Box 127 Indian Rocks Beach FL 34635 1926 Ford employee Otto Koppen young engineer MIT assigned design small single-place airplane anyone could fly lly Model T air first Ford Flivver built great secrecy behind locked doors completed made its first public appearance Henry Fords 63rd birthday July 31 1926 Flivver flown day Harry Brooks son Henry Fords neighbors August 10 1927 Detroit-born Charles Lindbergh arrived Detroit tour America following epochmaking flight May viewed Flivver asked Mr Ford could fly course replied Ford will second person late 1927 second Flivver also designed Koppen built new design larger first featured single-place steel-tube fuselage fabric-covered low wing wood construction Ford two-cylinder engine supposed develop 40 hp actually delivered 29 hp Brooks departed Detroit February 21 1928 bound Miami attempt set new distance record aircraft under 1000 pounds gross weight Mechanical trouble bad weather forced attempt to be terminated Ashville NC Feb 25 1928 Brooks departed Detroit again bound Miami starting sendoff Edsel Ford Henry waiting him Miami fuel leak forced landing Tirusville FL nonstop distance 1010 miles set new record flight Flivver used 40 gallons its available 52 average speed 78 mph February 25 late afternoon fuel leak repaired new propeller Brooks started Miami traveled 40 miles near Melbourne FL aircraft observed plunge water just off beach Brooks body never recovered wreckage washed ashore early next morning July1995 59 SERVO MME Size. 175 x 275 x 130 Drives ANY modem servo 0 0 Use favourite connector Available kit built-up REVERSE M*TE Servo reversing module installed between Rx Servo Adjusts/sets netutral reverses dirction servo Supplied wires add connectors match system Assembled tested $1995 SERVICE SAE catalog Ace Airtronlcs Aristo-Craff Cirrus Futaba HItec Hobby Shack J R K-Lku K 0 Propo Krafr Novak Pro-Une RCD Tower Hobbles FACTORY TRAINED AUThORIZED WARRANTY Howu 500 am 500pm EST iwkday call tar Saturday 60 Model Aviation belt harness unbuckled Ford family ordered further development Flying Flivver discontinued first Flivver display Ford Museum Dearborn MI later years Owen Koppen retired Florida participated resurrection second prototypes drawings advised Florida Aviation Historical Society replication Flivver Sadly Mr Koppen passed away before replica could completed writing mid-February 1995 replica has completed ground running tests has developed some brake problems still unflown Enough material has gathered develop scale model Duane Dahoert Richfield MN currently building 1/4-scale models powered twin four-stroke engines relate narrative illustrate couple points First some diligence bit luck can adequately document prototypes still unmodeled second people airplane nuts will make effort help someone serious interest modeling historical projects illustrate latter banker Lawrence KS offered extensive help documenting unrestored Monoprep used construction article Schwizer Corp provided photos rare 1-30 another construction article Charles Lebrecht Wonder Lake IL owned last registered Porterfield Zephyr provided photos use developing article late Walt Mooney provided three-views Aeronca Defender published April 1995 issue magazine Dick Jackson Rochester NH provided excellent material Spartan C2-60 other airplane nuts have provided material over years hate try listing fear someone will left out Superb help cooperation has received other projects Air Force Museum National Archives Smithsonian Imperial War Museum London request help try illustrate seriousness enclosing photo some other subject already built think establishes credibility since full-scale owners manufacturers builders deluged less-than-sincere inquiries would seem sources would like some assurance arent wasting time some dreamer likely never going produce model As always enclosing stamped selfaddressed envelopes just common courtesy nice touch seems much appreciated sending photos completed model sources roll two film replace film used neat way say thank you have Scale subject youve always wanted develop use resources public library network find much information possible such FAA registry fullscale model magazines books Scale plan photo services Thenand thenstart writing museums owners manufacturers etc Dont send send have P-S ls letters homework learn subject can reasonably expect cooperation Little History mid-1920s America becoming airplane mad Lindberghs 1927 flight electrified country no event before since has ever done city leaping airport development investors eager provide startup capital anyone wanted build airplane factory Wichita nearly thirty new manufacturers start up 1927 alone newspapers newsreels filled reports aviation activities incredible absurd Americas preoccupation technology reaching its zenith Also its zenith family owned industrial giant Ford Motor Co Model T Flivver put common man behind wheel automobile reducing time between marketplace work home starting social/economic revolution now know urbanization America Henry Ford son Edsel recognized travel air next great social/economic change hired Bill Stout AMA has perpetual trophy named him develop passenger-carrying aircraft through several evolutions became ubiquitous Ford Trimotor aircraft introduced affordable reliable scheduled airline service much developed world backbone systems years Edsel also envisioned Model T air simple inexpensive airplane use common man daily flights work etc Strangely commercial airline dream came true concept single-place everymans airplane has remained elusive dream Flying Flivver never found mass market nor have other concepts such Mooney Mite Piper Skycycle Lockheed Little Dipper others Only very recent times have some ultralights home-built kits again developed fill niche Ill keep posted Flivver project go along Hopefully everything will turn out well will something Fly Fun S AND SERVICE FOR EVERYTHING R/C ERAFt MIDWESt INC 7420 SEVEN MILE NORTHVILIE MI 48187 8104864800 FAX 810488180S BALSARI TE R/O WONDER JUICE Balsarite makes covering stick better also moisture-proofs wood adds little extra structural strength plus 2 prevents fuelcreep under seams 2 fuelproofs engine compartments 2 attaches raw dacron silk paper tissue wood C0VERFE 420 Babylon Rd Horsham PA 19044
