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Title: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: Elwyn Aud 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/

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probaly the late 20's and later
Post by: Mike Keville on April 18, 2014, 09:14:38 PM

Great views, Elwyn.  Love the old stuff!

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: FLOYD CARTER 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.

Floyd

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: john e. holliday 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. 

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: Tom Niebuhr 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!

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: Paul Smith 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.

Title: Re: Old full scale planes from probably the late 20's and later
Post by: john e. holliday 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.