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Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Last 747 was built this week. Here are pics of the last and first ones
Any old shots of the Hughes XF-11? Always thought that plane was amazing with its counter rotating props. Obviously before it crashed into multiple houses..
That's a beauty. Unfortunately I think that reproduction crashed not to long ago. But I may be mistaken..
Sadly no, the H1 crashed as well. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=a62dfafd-f97a-4c68-b88e-2e9275101303 M
Not necessarily cool, but definitely a significant pairing at a time when there were high hopes for both - Hustler and Vulcan together in Paris. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The Brits used to bring one of those to our airshow in Toronto. Next to the RCAF Tornado..it was the loudest jet I have ever heard. Too bad they had to ground the last flying Vulcan due to costs. Although I think they still do taxi run ups with it.
One of my most memorable "fly-bys" for me, at an airshow in 1970(?). Airshow was at Dulles airport, and they had a Vulcan bomber with four English Electric Lightening fighters do a very low altitude slow pass in front of the spectators. Walk through of the new C5 Galaxy was also impressive.
The thing I always noted about the lower photo was the WA-526 freeway (how I used to get to work in my Everett days) still under construction in the background.
I was there that day. If you look closely, you can see me...right there. After practically living at Everrett plant for a almost a year, that was a momentous day Quite a few of my old friends are gone now. Obviously the Devil hasn't found me yet.
Just a reminder that this aircraft has been around long enough that the rollout picture is in black and white. We all owe Bob and his thousands of compatriots our thanks for bringing us so many fine aircraft giving us comfortable and speedy mobility. Hats off!
Thanks, but I never thought of myself as anything but another ant in the ant hill. I worked with some really great people that I wish that the company had there now. The current crop of woes wouldn't have happened. I hate to say it but the company isn't the same one in which I worked. Still okay but not great like it was. I suppose that I have mentioned it before but it is difficult to believe that when I started in 1950, the total population was 30,000 and as a mechanic, I was helping to modify B-50's. Then the B-52 happened and I jumped to illustration .That segued into the 707 and all that followed with pens and board in the engineering department. The drawing boards and pens then changed into CATIA computers and I helped to generate the first 777, totally in the computer, first time . After working on many design studies and derivatives, I hung it up in 2002 . Thanks for letting me shuffle through some ragged old pages, it was one of the best experience of my life.
certified for a 0.5g turn, which at max take-off wt (MTW) puts over 250000lb side load on just one of the main landing gear (other has about 93000lb side load)
