Here ya go Switches...a 1934 Ryan STA and the 1944 Junkstang. Only 10 years apart but so different. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I apologize for not being on the ramp for a while. I have been putting in long hours working on a 4 foot long profile of the first 707, N707PA. It is one of three that will show the origin of the Boeing jets. Will continue on the 367-80 tomorrow, the KC-135 is done and looks pretty good. Not as good as that Ryan STA and Sparky. sitting there in the hangar. I have never flown an STA and I think that I missed a good one there. Thanks for posting that shot of two all time classics. You are having too much fun for an old man. Well that's a relative term, I guess, since you are only 70 something. After the Boeing series I think maybe a P-51 will be next. Thanks again, Switches
Bob, I had the pleasure of flying N707PA on at least one of my trips between IDL (or JFK) and SJU in the 1960s. I'm not sure which of the other 707-121s (and one 720) that I flew on during my years in Puerto Rico, but one of them resulted in a neat coincidence. Most of our trips were during the summer, but in November 1965, just before Thanksgiving, we had to make an unscheduled trip to NYC to tend to a dying uncle. It so happened that Pan Am put us on N711PA -- Jet Clipper Mayflower! Flying the Mayflower at Thanksgiving? I suppose it was meant to be!
That's really interesting to find someone who actually flew that airplane. A childhood friend of my wife was a " stew" on it for a while and I worked my tail off to get it in the air back in 1957. I'm doing a series of the first models of historic Boeing airplanes and so far I have the -80, KC-135, and the 707 that came out in that sequence and started the Boeing march of successful jet transports. I'll be selling prints of all three this summer and I might have a display in the engineering building in Everett. Looking at the 707 in comparison with today's jets makes one realize what an antique it is. Thanks for your note and thanks to Sparky's pix.
As someone who likes full size AND R/C airplanes, what is that hanging from the rafters up there? Image Unavailable, Please Login
That one is an F80. I have some shots of the opposite wall on another computer. Quite a few old models hanging over there.
This one? Besides the P-51 and Stearman, not sure what the others are. Very cool. As for the Boeing/707 project, it would be great to see them when they're done. My dad turned wrenches for Pan Am and worked on everything from the first 707s to the first (and later) 747s. We put together a homebuilt plane in our garage at one point (uh, not a 707 of course!). Image Unavailable, Please Login
