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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KingofThings, post: 131024, member: 468&quot;]That is a Ford Trimotor and it has an experimental number on it.</p><p>I flew in one of those once! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>~</p><p>&quot;In 1928, Edsel Ford donated a Ford Tri-Motor airplane to Commander Richard E. Byrd, polar explorer and naval aviator, which would be used to attempt the first flight over the South Pole.&nbsp; Ford had previously assisted Byrd with an aircraft for his flight over the North Pole in 1927. Byrd would name the Ford Tri-Motor aircraft after his colleague and naval aviator friend, <a href="http://www.patriotspoint.org/news_events/naval-aviator-richard-byrd-departs-on-his-first-polar-expedition-1925/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.patriotspoint.org/news_events/naval-aviator-richard-byrd-departs-on-his-first-polar-expedition-1925/" rel="nofollow">Floyd Bennett</a> who died of pneumonia in 1928.&quot;</p><p>~</p><p><a href="https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/28759/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/28759/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/28759/</a></p><p>~</p><p>&quot;This was the first plane to fly over the South Pole. Fokker insisted on having his company&#039;s name on the side of the plane for Ford to use its engines.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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