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I knew that Greg would be stopping by this thread and educating us.<br><br>Andrea, you would LOVE the airport down the road from our house. We live by a lake and a short distance away is a float plane "airport"......therunway is the lake, of course. Pretty cool to watch those guys land.<br><br>Steve
When I see planes fly over my house here in California I don't wonder what kinda plane it is I just wonder if it's going to land on me.....<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/frown.gif" alt="image"><br><br><br>They seem to fall out of the sky alot around here.......
What a beautiful airplane. I recognised it too. Although I certainly would not have been able to identify the model. My dad flew in them a lot during theconstruction of the DEW line in the early fifties.---mike<br>
<strong>It's A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress for sure, the Bomber that won WWII in Europe.......<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/devil.gif" alt="image"></strong>
B-17 probably on It's way to an airshow. Nothing like the sound of a radial engine ! You can actually go up in an old warbird at some airshows. Here is oneof my favorites. It's been going under a full restoration for two years in Texas. This photo is from It's maiden test flight on June 2nd, 08.<br><br><img height="600" src="http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc211/wwwdotjimmer/p381.jpg" width="800" alt="image"><br><br>Jim<br><br><br>
<p>And that's a Lockheed P-38(-F I believe) Lightning, one of very few flying examples. No sound of radial engines on this one, though... it had a pair ofAllison V-12's with different camshafts on one engine so it ran backwards, thus allowing the props to be counter-rotating.</p><p>And lest anyone think there's some kind of problem because only one main gear leg is down - it's because they are retracting, and the hydraulicsystem was such that it'd pull the nose wheel up, then the port main gear, then the stbd main gear. That way the system didn't have to be oversized(more weight - the enemy!) to handle all three at once.</p><p>Anything else ya wanna know about it? I've got a lot more where that came from! <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image"></p><p>Greg</p>
Oh, and I meant to add before... Andrea that 'duster is an aircraft specifically designed for that purpose, by Gulfstream - G-164 or something like that.<br><br>Greg
Thanks Greg!! <img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/happy.gif" alt="image"><br><br>Jimmer, great pic! Let's see more!<br><br>
<strong>Greg, what do you say for wing span on those B17s, 150-200 ft? Just curious, my Dad was in WWII, flew in a A21-rear gunner.<br><br>Great info and awesome pics guys and girls.<br><br>Jack<br><img height="20" src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_cooldude.gif" width="20" alt="image"></strong>
Okay, here's a tricky one... one of the first supersonic Navy fighters. Hint: the Blue Angels flew it for many years...<br><br><img src="http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-7/779788/yawontgettheanswerthisway.jpg" alt="image"><p>One of the most beautiful fighters ever, in my opinion!<br><br>Greg<br></p>