-In 1926, Henry Ford displayed an experimental single-seat aeroplane that he called the "sky flivver".

-The project was abandoned two years later when a distance-record attempt flight crashed, killing the pilot.

-The Flivver was not a flying car at all, but it did get press attention at the time, exciting the public that they would have a mass-produced affordable airplane product that would be made, marketed, sold, and maintained just like an automobile.

“Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.”

— Henry Ford, 1940

Efforts to build flying cars