Talk:Ford Trimotor

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[edit] Byrds flight over the North Pole

Byrds claim to have flown over the North Pole is generally discredited nowadays, the speed of the Tri-Motor being insufficient to take Byrd from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back in the 15.5 hours he was gone. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cabdude (talk • contribs) 18:02, 29 August 2005.

In any case, the information was incorrect. Only one aircraft was used on that expedition, and it was a Fokker. However, the expedition was funded by Ford, and the aircraft named after his daughter. Fokker was so worried that the public would believe the "Josephine Ford" was the product of his competitor that he plastered his own name all over it! (see [1]) FiggyBee 08:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)