alt= Modern Cabin Plane with Folding Wings: the Fairchild Monoplane John Henry Mears Used in Round-the-World Trip Above Is a Flivver Monoplane Piloted by a Woman in This Year's Ford Reliability Tour: Powered with an Air-Cooled Engine and Fitted with a Luxurious Cabin for Two People, It Costs Less Than $2,700; at the Left Is the First Plane with Sea Pontoons to Fly the Atlantic, Miss Amelia Earhart's "Friendship"; Hers Was the First Seaplane to Make the Trip, and the First Plane Capable of Landing on Water Since the Initial Flight of the Navy's "NC-4" Flying Boat; All the Other Crossings Were Made by Land Planes without a Chance to Survive at Sea
