roseannerowe7 roseannerowe7 11-01-2024 English contestada According to the "Ford's Portable Plane Car" by Jackson Smith, what caused Henry Ford to give up on light airplane manufacturing? The building materials became too costly. He disliked the idea of "flying cars" and compared the idea to bees swarming. His model Flying Fivver crashed on its test flight, killing his friend. He thought affordable "flying cars" were unrealistic and predicted they would never come to be.