Topic: For gerhed...Engine photos. With DC-3 Pinups updated

[kghost]

Thought you might enjoy these sir.....

From the Musee d' Air , Le Bourget France.

[gerhed]

Jees-O-Pete !
Looks like my kind of museum.
What gorgeous stuff !!
Would this be where Lindberg landed ?
Were you there recently ?
Thanks for posting

gerhed

[MRieck]

 Does the copper engine double as a brewery?

[kghost]

Thats where lindburg landed.

I was there in march of last year.

I have a bunch of aviation photos I can prolly bore ya to tears.

One of my old airplanes made a pin-up calander I'll scan them and post them for you guys.

[bill440cars]

        Hey Tim,

             Awesome pictures of some Awesome subjects! Thanks for posting them!

                                                Later on, Bill  

[kghost]

Heres a DC-3 I used to fly and a pin - up 

[gerhed]

What is it about poka-dots anyway !

[Badger 5]

Keep the pin-ups coming.

[kghost]

No more pin-ups lol

The video of me flying the aiplane in the pics is here:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=814731452


Couple air to air shots of some Javelin conversions I was associated with.

[gerhed]

Great pics and video.
The Navy had something called the C-117
which I think was a DC-3 variant.
Had a memorable flight in one from Rota, Spain to
Naples by way of Palma Majorca to pick up an injured sailer.

[kghost]

I've flown the C117-D. Was the stretched square tail varient of the -3

What the navy called the R4D-8 and what the civilian world called the Siper DC-3.

In fact that very aircraft was in Jane's.

It met a fiery end on a street in Miami.

I'll post a pic of that too if ya like lol

[gerhed]

I've flown the C117-D. Was the stretched square tail varient of the -3

What the navy called the R4D-8 and what the civilian world called the Siper DC-3.

In fact that very aircraft was in Jane's.

It met a fiery end on a street in Miami.

I'll post a pic of that too if ya like lol

Like to see it.

[kghost]

This was after I left the company and after the company sold the airplane to these guys in miami....

[Killer Canary]

Those rotary aircraft engines were unlikely things; crankshaft bolted to the firewall while the rest of it spins. Took me awhile to get my head around that.The producers of "Flyboys" got that all wrong!

[Badger 5]

I bet that crash scared the hell out of a few people.

[bill440cars]

      Hey Tim, Those are some very nice shots that you posted. Those of the plane that went down in Miami reminded me of the B52 that blew up over a residential area of Little Rock, when I was in Junior High School. We lived in across the Arkansas River in North Little Rock at the time. I looked out a window after I heard a noise and saw the plane engulfed in flames and coming apart. Don't have any pictures of that one. Some folks died in that one but I don't have a clue what the statistics were. There was a fair sized area affected also. Don't remember the exact date, somewhere between the late 50's and very early 60's. Just thought I'd share that bit.

                                                 Later on, Bill