As an aviation enthusiast it pains me to learn Ford wasted such an awesome name on another escape based crossover...
Haha I know, right? I was fortunate enough to meet and work for Robert Odegaard during my senior design project at school. He started out in cropdusting and ended up restoring warbirds and racing airplanes. Among them were three Super Corsairs. When we went to his shop he was in the process of restoring his third one he eventually crashed and died in. The R-4360 engine was sitting on its end on a pallet, and it's tough to get an appreciation for the size of those things until you're standing next to it out of the plane. I had to hide my stiffy.
I wouldn't say I'm big into aviation, but that's what made me somewhat interested. He was a real cool guy and I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to know him better. He was a tinkerer and the project we worked on was a compact portable vertical wind turbine he built with the idea it could be used to power villages in Africa and such. He built a prototype on a swather cart and tested it by pulling it back and forth down the runway behind his pickup. He owned a small jet and would fly to a town 2 hrs. drive away for coffee on Saturday mornings because he liked the place, and bring his shop guys and friends with.
Totally off topic but the Corsair reference brought back some good memories.