The Archive · 1927

Goods Carried by Aeroplane

Detroit, Aug. 3.

The first goods-carrying _aeroplane ever built for service in the United States, outside the scope of the Ford Air Lines, started for} Hartford to-day vid New York. Ie will be used by a typewriter company for the delivery of typewriters on its first regular air business trip from the United States to Havana. machine is a Giant Ford three-engined transport model with] 4 speed of 120 miles an hour and a cruising radius of 500 miles. It is capable of carrying a load of 24

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