I can’t imagine how that would work.
see> Page 26, May, 1944 Popular Mechanics > https://ia801308.us.archive.org/Boo....jp2&id=PopularMechanics1944&scale=8&rotate=0
I can’t imagine how that would work.
I know this was about the fins on the airplane tires but I liked the method to get broken drill bits out of a crankshaft!see> Page 26, May, 1944 Popular Mechanics > https://ia801308.us.archive.org/Boo....jp2&id=PopularMechanics1944&scale=8&rotate=0
For my birthday this year, my wife bought me a ride on a vintage aircraft. I chose this plane and we decided to go on the flight together. This is happening in June. 20 minute flight but should be a blast.
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They do some great restorations at that facility. Much of the labour is from volunteers until they get into serious stuff.Don't forget... pics or it never happened.
Amazing airplane. even more amazing, a cargo carrier I used to contract with still flew 'em (Model 18) all the way up to 2001. Kallitta I think it was...
Claiming I worked on 'em is fine barroom talk, but truth be told, 'bout all I ever had to do was throw some oil in the engines. Still....
If it weren't for volunteers, darned few of them would ever get restored. Same with vintage locomotives.They do some great restorations at that facility. Much of the labour is from volunteers until they get into serious stuff.
I believe Delta Air Lines’ museum aircraft were restored at least mostly by retired A&P’s and some active on their off time. If not for people like that, we’d have nothing.If it weren't for volunteers, darned few of them would ever get restored. Same with vintage locomotives.
I’ve visited that museum and was very impressed. In the photo, the B52 with other aircraft gives a good perspective of how massive this plane is! Is that a Concorde second from the top?View attachment 243379
Exhibit celebrating centennial opens May 21
Like Wright-Patterson Air Force Base itself, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is unmistakably Dayton-bred and born.
The museum celebrates its 100th anniversary with a special exhibit that opened Sunday.
The exhibit offers a detailed look at the museum’s history, complete with rare photos and the citation of little-known facts.
If you think the museum’s story began with President Richard Nixon’s dedication of today’s campus on Wright-Patterson Area B in September 1971, think again.
“There’s more to the story,” said Doug Lantry, historian and curator with the museum. “There’s a backstory to the backstory.”
The origin of what is still called the “Air Force Museum” easily predates the 1947 birth of the Air Force itself.
https://www.daytondailynews.com/loc...-with-new-exhibit/WKQLE3HOEBFN7JFDL6IVCEX5EA/
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Valkyrie bomber
I looked at the XB70 and wondered what that might be like to taxi into the gate. The captain's seat is about 70 feet in front of the nose wheels. I used to feel challenged to taxi an L1011 into the gate with similar, but far less extreme configuration.Thx, my bad, just googled the Valkyrie bomber.. quite the plane.
Yep, XB-70 Valkyrie. Only two built. One crashed through no fault of it's own and the other's in the museum.Valkyrie bomber