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The Ford Flivver was a single-seat aircraft introduced by Henry Ford as the "Model T of the Air". After a fatal crash of a prototype into the ocean off Melbourne, Florida, U.S., production plans were halted. ==Development== The Ford Trimotor was Henry Ford's first successful commercial aircraft venture in 1925. Following the Ford Model T as an "everyman's" vehicle, the Ford Flivver was designed to be a mass-produced "everyman's" aircraft.〔("Entrepreneurs: The Planes; 1926 Ford Flivver." ) ''The Henry Ford Museum.'' Retrieved: August 4, 2012.〕 The idea was first proposed to William Bushnell Stout, manager of Ford's acquired aircraft division in 1926. Both Stout and William Benson Mayo, head of Ford's Aircraft Division wanted nothing to do with the aircraft and it was built in a nearby museum building in the Ford Laboratories.〔Ford 1997, pp. 168–169.〕 The single-seat aircraft was designed with Mr. Ford's instructions that it "fit in his office".〔 The first example was displayed at the 1926 Ford National Reliability Air Tour.〔Pauley, Robert F. "The Ford Flivver." ''Sport Aviation,'' July 1961.〕 The press and public flocked to see "Ford's Flying Car," a single-seat aircraft that had very little in common with the popular Model T "Flivver." Comedian Will Rogers posed for press photos in the aircraft (although he never flew one).〔Davis and Wagner 2002, p. 49.〕 A ''New York Evening Sun'' columnist wrote the following poem showing excitement for the future flying Fords. :''I dreamed I was an angel'' :''And with the angels soared'' :''But I was simply touring'' : ''The heavens in a Ford.''〔Corn 2002, p. 95.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Flivver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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