Had a model of this one as a child. My model took part in wars, rescue missions, landed where the big planes couldn't, and those three engines never failed.
These planes are wonderful, an amazing and beautiful aircraft. Thank you for posting this, I love watching old aircraft, vintage automobiles and steam locomotives.
When i was a young lad back in the sixties my father and I took a similar flight at an experimental aircraft show in Michigan. I remember sitting in wooden chairs lol. A great memory brought back, thank you.
I flew on that very plane about a month ago up in Elmira, NY. My friend paid extra to be the co-pilot since he is a licensed pilot. My daughter and I sat right behind the cockpit. At one point I look up at my friend Tom and he is flying the plane. I lean over and say to my daughter, hang on we're going for a wild ride Tom is in control and she laughed. Good time!
I'm grateful for the opportunity to have flown in this aircraft this past August when it was on display at the Oswego County Airport at Fulton, NY... Truly an experience!!!
What an awesome aircraft, it opened up so many air routes with it's capabilities. Love the sound of those radials beating together. Isn't the iPhone just the best camera in the world? Look how well it captured the noise of the gentle breeze blowing that day!
I have been a passenger on that plane twice, one at I think age ten and once with my daughter at 53. I have the pics in both cases. I had a bunch of taildragger hours in between but sadly not left seat in something like this.
@@toomanyuserids Correct. Fokker for the North Pole, Ford for the South Pole. The Ford resides at the Ford ( Henry Ford Museum Dearborn Michigan) . I saw real thing and got my parents to buy me the Monogram model from the gift shop.
Now I see why, Ford stuck to cars🙄!!! Folker had, the same design. And to you young people, here's an airplane that's almost, a hundred years old 🤔!! You can see one of these, in a Jerry Lewis movie titled, "THE FAMILY JEWELS" (1965)!!!
The Fords (should we call them Stouts?) and Fokkers were very different structurally, and the trimotor layout was not unusual in the day see the Ju52 and Italian stuff.
