To me, it looks like a Ford Trimotor. These were three-engined passenger aircraft that were built by the Ford Motor Company in response to the German Junkers Trimotor.
You can fly one in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. There is a great view of one in the 1987 Untouchables, and Flash Gordon crashed in one at the beginning of his 1936 serial.
Ford didn't build a lot of aircraft. Henry and Edsel Ford personally backed an aircraft engineer by name of Will Stout, and when his planes proved to be modestly successful, Ford bought the Stout Company. There were only 199 Trimotors built, so most of them seem to be accounted for. Unless it was a wartime crash (or an unexpected trip to Mongo), there seems to be only one Tri-Motor that would have crashed in snow, and that was because it ran out of fuel performing a rescue mission in the Yukon. I don't think the plane cracked up, though, but I don't know for certain.
To me, it looks like a Ford Trimotor. These were three-engined passenger aircraft that were built by the Ford Motor Company in response to the German Junkers Trimotor.
ReplyDeleteYou can fly one in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. There is a great view of one in the 1987 Untouchables, and Flash Gordon crashed in one at the beginning of his 1936 serial.
Ford didn't build a lot of aircraft. Henry and Edsel Ford personally backed an aircraft engineer by name of Will Stout, and when his planes proved to be modestly successful, Ford bought the Stout Company. There were only 199 Trimotors built, so most of them seem to be accounted for. Unless it was a wartime crash (or an unexpected trip to Mongo), there seems to be only one Tri-Motor that would have crashed in snow, and that was because it ran out of fuel performing a rescue mission in the Yukon. I don't think the plane cracked up, though, but I don't know for certain.