Author Topic: Vintage airplanes: let's see your pictures (Read 56852 times)

gerhed · « **Reply #125 on:** February 05, 2010, 06:24:11 AM »

at the Glen Curtiss museum--Hammondsport, N.Y.

BobbyR · « **Reply #126 on:** February 05, 2010, 07:16:26 AM »

Quote from: Bob Wessner on February 05, 2010, 06:21:10 AM

Quote from: BobbyR on February 04, 2010, 07:33:35 PM
The best part is that you had a really unobstructed view.

.. and perhaps a certain vulnerability to small arms fire.

It was not hard, I think you could knock them down will a .22. It would not be hard to hit since it went like 60 mph. Can you imagine the poor wounded fella that had to ride in that little basket.

72 yellow · « **Reply #127 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:59:38 PM »

Quote from: BobbyR on February 05, 2010, 05:49:16 AM

Quote from: srust58 on February 04, 2010, 08:56:29 PM
Quote from: BobbyR on February 04, 2010, 07:33:35 PM
I learned to fly rotary wing in one of these Bell H-13s. The best I can say is that it flew. The controls were vague and the whole thing shook like hell. The guy who owned it was a friend of my Uncle, and he taught me to fly it. They saved some lives and paved the way for today's ships. The best part is that you had a really unobstructed view.

I don't know if I would be to excited about going up in that. It looks like such a rickety contraption.
It was a contraption but more reliable than you would think. Sam did nothing but have me hover the thing for weeks. If you could hover that thing, you could hover anything.

At the tender age of 9, I was treated to a ride in a helicopter that I remember looked like this. It reminded me of the one that Broderick Crawford used in the TV show "Highway Patrol".

BobbyR · « **Reply #128 on:** February 05, 2010, 06:26:02 PM »

Quote from: 72 yellow on February 05, 2010, 04:59:38 PM

Quote from: BobbyR on February 05, 2010, 05:49:16 AM
Quote from: srust58 on February 04, 2010, 08:56:29 PM
Quote from: BobbyR on February 04, 2010, 07:33:35 PM
I learned to fly rotary wing in one of these Bell H-13s. The best I can say is that it flew. The controls were vague and the whole thing shook like hell. The guy who owned it was a friend of my Uncle, and he taught me to fly it. They saved some lives and paved the way for today's ships. The best part is that you had a really unobstructed view.

I don't know if I would be to excited about going up in that. It looks like such a rickety contraption.
It was a contraption but more reliable than you would think. Sam did nothing but have me hover the thing for weeks. If you could hover that thing, you could hover anything.

At the tender age of 9, I was treated to a ride in a helicopter that I remember looked like this. It reminded me of the one that Broderick Crawford used in the TV show "Highway Patrol".

There was a show I watched as a kid called Whirlybirds in 1958. I found this still from the show. Notice the bend in the rotors just lifting one extra person. The stars were Kenneth Tobey and Craig Hill. The ship in this show was a Bell 47.

sangyo soichiro · « **Reply #129 on:** February 05, 2010, 06:47:10 PM »

There are some cool, cool pictures here. Thanks guys.

wannabridin · « **Reply #130 on:** February 05, 2010, 08:11:20 PM »

i'm going to the oskosh, wi, air museum on sunday!! woo!!! i'll def. be posting some more pics on here from that! this thread rocks!

Frankenkit · « **Reply #131 on:** February 05, 2010, 08:53:25 PM »

Have fun! I grew up near EAA.

Can't tell you how many birthdays I ended up spending there!

Don R · « **Reply #132 on:** February 05, 2010, 09:41:01 PM »

I used to love to watch whirlybirds. Of course a youngster like me must have seen it in re-runs. Sky King too. MMMmm, Penny.

demon78 · « **Reply #133 on:** February 06, 2010, 04:16:27 AM »

Two tired if you ever get to Ottawa go to the National arero space museum they have a cutaway engine and you can see how it works, I talked once upon a time a RCN fitter same equivalent as me and I said I would have liked to work on a Centarius he said, your bloody crazy, I hated them, they used to blow up for any reason, he said, he was so happy when they converted to Banshee's, interesting engine but maybe not.
Bill the demon.

BobbyR · « **Reply #134 on:** February 06, 2010, 06:59:00 AM »

Quote from: Don R on February 05, 2010, 09:41:01 PM

I used to love to watch whirlybirds. Of course a youngster like me must have seen it in re-runs. Sky King too. MMMmm, Penny.

Man I had the hots for Penny. As you can see from shot #2 our lust was well founded.

Don R · « **Reply #135 on:** February 06, 2010, 07:01:51 PM »

Thanks, Bobby I knew I could bait somebody into remembering. Gloria Winters, I going elsewhere to look her up.

Don R · « **Reply #136 on:** February 06, 2010, 07:07:16 PM »

She was in big bad love in 2002, played Mrs. shepard!

sangyo soichiro · « **Reply #137 on:** April 14, 2010, 11:58:18 AM »

Lots of good stuff on this site, including videos and high-resolution photos:

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/index.html

wannabridin · « **Reply #138 on:** April 15, 2010, 08:58:14 AM »

x-15 is SO sweet!!! i still have a backdrop for a project i did in grade school on that "plane" way ahead of the time then

SHELLFISH · « **Reply #139 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:16:11 PM »

I wen to a backyard airshow while in Florida last fall. Yes, a back yard airshow. It's afly in gated community over by Ocala. Pretty neat. They were giving free rides to nay that wanted. They also had a Piper Cub and a few others. These are two Stearmans.

Iteresting therad with some great pictures.