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Offline Elwyn Aud

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Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« on: April 18, 2014, 09:10:06 PM »
Ran across a nice album of early full scale aircraft. Unfortunately a lot don't have much info. The opening photo is somewhere in the middle of the album.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kemon01/6463829665/lightbox/

Offline Mike Keville

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Re: Old full scale planes from probaly the late 20's and later
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2014, 09:14:38 PM »
Great views, Elwyn.  Love the old stuff!
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Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2014, 04:33:02 PM »
Nice collection, Elwyn.  I especially like all the Lockheeds.  All those various Lockheed planes were made in the same fuselage mold.  It was a big old concrete half-shell.  Laid up by hand with lots of strips of thin wood.  The two shells then glued together.

Some time back, they were digging up a parking lot in Santa Barbara, CA and found the fuselage molds buried.  I think they were destroyed because nobody wanted them.  Too bad.

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Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2014, 12:45:01 PM »
Thanks for the link.  I got to looking at all the pics and seen the ones about Midway Airway Airport in Chicago.   Remember the plane going in for a landing and wondering if the pilot was trying to land on the roof tops. 
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Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2014, 05:03:29 AM »
Elwyn,
Thanks. The only problem is that there are too many pictures for one sitting... These are great!
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Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2014, 06:17:21 AM »
???  That trimotor with the Question Mark was a US-built Fokker that established a six-day air refueling record. 

Six days of putting up with the noise and vibration of three effectively unmuffled and unsynchronized engines was quite a human endurance feat.

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Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2014, 09:20:57 AM »
Hey Tom,  that is one of the reasons I like to put links in my favorites file when I can.   Just yesterday I spent an hour or more on the Aeromaniacs link.  I have another one that has old military videos of planes and training films.  Some of those training procedures makes wonder how we had any servivers.
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