Crank-starting a Ford Trimotor, circa 1935

A Northern Air Transport Ford Trimotor airplane takes off from Weeks Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1935. Men crank start the airplane, which then taxis down the snowy runway and becomes airborne (B&W/Silent/16mm film)
This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-243 from the Robert & Marion Hall collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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