Henry Ford Builds WII Bombers in Less than One Hour..Amazing

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wide winger

Motown's very own village idiot!
Mototown's very own village idiot says:

The footage of this old film is truly amazing, and you have to
give the Ford Motor Co. a lot of credit for building these
planes, and the Pilots that flew them were gutsy guys
to fly them for the first time. A real piece of history.

This was 6 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor !
Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce
bombers just as he had done with cars, so he built the Willow Run
assembly plant in Michigan and proved it. It was the world's
largest building under one roof at the time. This film will
absolutely blow you away - one B-24 every 55 minutes . . . and
Ford had their own pilots to test them.


http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0
 
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wide winger said:
Mototown's very own village idiot says:

The footage of this old film is truly amazing, and you have to
give the Ford Motor Co. a lot of credit for building these
planes, and the Pilots that flew them were gutsy guys
to fly them for the first time. A real piece of history.

This was 6 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor !
Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce
bombers just as he had done with cars, so he built the Willow Run
assembly plant in Michigan and proved it. It was the world's
largest building under one roof at the time. This film will
absolutely blow you away - one B-24 every 55 minutes . . . and
Ford had their own pilots to test them.


http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0
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Awesome video!

Hard to believe they could build them that quickly.

I rode in a B-25 for almost an hour and a half and found that people back then must have been much smaller, or I'm just fat... LOL
During the National Anthem for the MIS VFW 200 Race, we did a fly-over mid-field, and then back again. We were at about 250 MPH at that time (faster than the cars!), then did a 45 degree turn... and I almost puked!


Lots of cool history in the area. I never knew until recently that the Dearborn Inn was built because the Ford test track used to be an airport.
 
Great clip. Truly amazing. Their production output at Willow Run has never been beat. If your into this kind of stuff you need to read Freedom's Forge. Excellent book about changing American civilian production to military production.
 
99SaleenSpeedster said:
Lots of cool history in the area. I never knew until recently that the Dearborn Inn was built because the Ford test track used to be an airport.
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One of the runways was still there up until a few years ago when they re-did the infield of the test track. When I was in Building 2 we had a great view of it.
 
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