In case you thought Henry Ford had all the answers..

..he didn't. He was working on this "coupe" at the same time the Tri-Motor was in production. In fact, there's a picture of Charles Lindbergh checking it out. You wonder how he got his legs in there.

Like a lot of folks who bring a prized airplane to Oshkosh, Dick Hawley and his family just pitch a tent under the wing. Hawley, an airline pilot from Colorado, found his turbo-charged Cessna 195 in "grand dishabille" at an airport in Birmingham, Alabama. That was 1990. This is now.
And, as you would expect, things are a lot better now.

Dick says the turbo's a big help in Colorado's high sky. "The plane's a dream to fly. It's a very stable aircraft, it's reasonably fast, carries a good load; we can load around 1300 pounds of stuff including the fuel..cruises about 160." Dick added: "I consider myself to be a blood brother to this airplane. I've worked on it, I've cut myself. I've got aluminum in my blood and it has blood in it's aluminum." I'd guess that makes it a member of the family, Dick.

Somebody's pretty Swift. You could see your face in it..anywhere. But another nice thing about the Oshkosh crowds: there were no fingerprints anywhere.