San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
FORD AIR FLEET
! Gets 3-MOTOR
/ AIRPLANE
New Craft, Ready Nov. 20,
May Go Into Service
In Florida.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 7.-Th.
first three-engined airplane in tn
Ford air fleet will make it's appear
ance about November 20, IL was
learned this week. Beyond the fact
that 1t will be of radically different
design from the present stort ell-metal
transport, and that it will be powered
with Wright whirlwind radial air
cooled motors. pending the develop
ment Of Ford's own 200 horsepower
air-cooled motor. nothing can be
learned of the new machine.
But its distinctly not the long-ex-
pected and often falsely heralded Ford
'air flivver." 1t will be heavy duty
craft for from eight TO ten passengers
or a ton of light freight.
TO OPERATE SOON.
Probably a half dozen three-engine
planes will be ready by mid-January
and several of them will be put into
an air service from Florida to Cuba,
in conjunction with a private airway
that is being opened from Miami to
Jacksonville this month or early next.
This proposition will be started
with four of the present 400 horse
power Liberty engine stout trans
ports. which are to be ready for de-
livery this week. Also another of these
planes will be delivered soon to the
John Wanamaker stores in New
York and still another has been ord
cred for the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. but neither its delivery
date nor the use to which it will be
first put can be learned to a certainty
at present.
FOkKER is READY.
Anthony II. G. Fokker has been
paying another visit to Detroit this
week and this time he told a number
of business men who discussed with
him both the operating and manufac-
turing side of the aircraft business
that be was definitely ready to do
business in Detroit"
Further conferences are to take
place between the Dutch designer, c.
Harold Wills, who is interested in the
aircraft motor problem, and Edward
ID. Stair, newspaper publisher, who
represents a considerable amount of
potential investment capital, some of
which already is at work in the Bull
verville Aircraft company, which is
about TO bring forth a new ship here.
.Fokker says he will ask the group
which urged him to go to Kansas City
TO release him from promises made
there.
Is NEW PROJECT.
To return to the new Ford plane
and The Florida airplane, these plans
are in immediate charge Of Major
Reed Chambers, formerly of the Pa
cific Coast, who represents a group of
northern capital invested in southern
real estate, and are an entirely sepa-
rate project from any that have been
rumored as having Ford backing in
Florida or other parts Of the country.
Inability 10 get ready in time any
plane suitable for cross country non
stop flight caused the postponement
last Saturday Of the attempt Edward
s. Evans, Detroit banker, was to have
made TO lower the transcontinental
flight record of &c hours. 1t is still
uncertain whether the flight will be
made this month or put off until
spring.
The Fokker air liner was to have
been used but choice has turned TO a
Sikorsky transport, which has operst-
ed only in the East. If favorable pre-
dictions as to weather can be obtained
the flight may occur about Thanks
giving, Evans said.