Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-08-03 | Page 10 | Flies to Work in "Mosquito" Plane; Flivver Ship Does 40 Miles to Gallon of Gas

Flies to Work Wark or in Mosquito Plane Flivver Ship D Does es 40 Miles to Gallon Gallo o of Gas as y Il lil ill I rk 9 ue fore some dies ko out oust of hi lira ar t te and ands Eo to make a. a hang er 1 n Fhe y f k aM x u i W f a K k mv w m DETROIT Mich Aug 3 SEA LIn In what is perhaps the smallest airplane in the world Harry J J. J Brooks test teat pilot at the Ford airport airport airport air air- port in Dearborn near here has solved the commuting problem and p w Ww w wu OW the strap hanging problem m in perfect perfect perfect per per- manner Brooks lives on a farm out of Birmingham 20 miles by auto over ovet the tho nearest roads from the Dearborn Dearborn Dearborn Dear Dear- born airport He makes the trip v w w in about 10 minutes in the flivver plane plan using less leas than half halt a gallon gallon gallon gal gal- lon of gas each way Cruising the plane will do 40 miles to the gal cal fal- IOn lon The farm had a II Jl garage to care for thre three car cars It Il n never ver had any doors so ao wh when n Mr rr Brooks Brooke began to use the Ford plane to bring him to work and home again he to took tofik k two posts out of the garage and had hada a hangar han or whatever r he wants to call can it ft He rolls in at night and andin in the morning starts th the motor Inthe inthe In Inthe the shed taxies off and in 10 minutes minutes minutes min min- utes is at wOrk at Dearborn PLANE WEIGHS POUNDS Brooks has nO flown n home leaving the airport at 9 o'clock at night flying without lights and landing without lights He comes to work in th the rain and has very high winds but never had hod to come down When Brooks wants to play golf golt at the Dearborn rn Country Countr club he flies files over to the course lands on the fairway and taxies along the terrace to the clubhouse He Is III one of the few pilots at the airport not trained in the army Like Lindbergh hd he h tried parachute jumping for lor or a while receiving flying flying flying fly fly- ing lessons in return The horsepower 30 piano plane has has hasa a awing awing wing span of 22 feet is 16 feet in length weighs pounds light lIht has a wing area area of 97 square feet and carries five gallons of g gas s. s Alren A French h engine used t bY bYall byall y all old planes is us used d in this Ford plane The was the first engine to cross ClOSS the English channel channel channel chan chan- nel in 1908 FLIES tO SEE GIRLS The plane was built by Henry Ford and flown for the first time on June 4 of ot last year Mr Ford wanted to experiment with a low powered small plane but ut though this plane has proved a splendid success ss none but the original was ever manufactured d. d Every visitor to the tho airport admires the little plane and almost most everyone expresses expresses expresses ex ex- ex- ex presses the wish to buy one But Henry Ford said recently that he was not interested in sm small ll planes only In r l large e pl planes nes of ot the passenger variety able to fly in any weather anywhere Brooks is popular with the girls for when he wants to make a callon callon call callon on one far from the p port rt or his home town he usually takes his plane and lands somewhere In the neighborhood od of r the girls girl's home Copyright 1927 NEA Service Inc IneS