By the latter half of the 1920s, as interest in general aviation began to take off, it was almost expected of Henry Ford to offer a simple and inexpensive airplane for the masses, just as he did with the Model T. However, while his engineers did indeed develop such a plane, Ford's ideas about aviation tended to be more esoteric, as we can see from the 10-propeller diesel plane he proposed in 1930.
Ford's brief aeronautic quest might best be associated with William Bushnell Stout and the Ford Tri-Motor these days, maybe even the never-produced Sky Flivver (or, if you will, the Willow Run bomber plant and the assembly line production of B-24s), but his patent filings during that time reveal greater ambitions, mostly involving opposed-piston engines.
Another day, another weird Ford concept.
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