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We've had some conversation on aircraft experiences here before, so it's not too off base. This online "museum" might give you a few hours of entertainment: http://www.aviastar.org/index2.html

Not part of the site, but a pic from my personal file showing military aircraft from the '40s, '50s, and '60s.

The virtual museum is great, Bob, but that picture you posted is fantastic! I worked on radial recips in the Navy, and there's no sound like one of those bad boys flying by with their low rpm thunder and unrestricted exhaust. They're kind of like a Harley sound multiplied a few times

Yeah Roger, that's one of those dumb luck snapshots on the flight line at Korat. If you look very closely you'll see those Wright Cyclones marking their terrritory.

Bob, the C-47 could also be considered a 30's plane since some were built in the late 1930s.

Yes sir eeeeeee. We have a B17 CAF (still Confederate Air Force to Me) here at the local airport. When she takes off and lands its right over my house about 100 ft up. Just the sound is like a time machine..............

Never did trust airplanes, always tried to jump out of them first chance I got!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the Connie;

cool site, looked up the avro arrow heck theres a 100 pages of them still fighting about that plane.

Uncle Bob - thanks for the link. I had it on an earlier computer and lost it during the changeover then forgot it existed.

The files seem to have gotten much larger since the last look, probably in 2006+/- a year.

Here's one if you want some stats on how some of them and their passengers met their violent ends. If you ever wanted to know why something really happened, there's often an FAA/accident report too: http://aviation-safety.net/index.php

Fine picture, Bob!

In my opinion (something that ain't usually sought after) the old Lockheed Constellation is one of the best looking airplanes ever built. It was kind of long legged and spindly looking on the ground, but wheels up, what a beauty!

Braniff Airways still had two of them when I joined the company in 1960 but they weren't in regular service at that time.

Marking their territory ! Very good! Every time one of our DC7s rolled onto the ramp and the engines stopped, two guys had to run out, each carrying two catch-cans and hang one under each engine. Every uniform shirt I owned had plenty of black Cyclone spots on them.

Jim

Connies were sweet sounding with all the engines in sync

ya gotta love the old stuff...

I still remember a Saber Jet doing a low altitude pass over the little SW MO town of Noel in the edge of the Ozarks, about 1954 or 1955. We were down at the school grounds, heard the roar and looked up in time to see him overhead and moving away at a fast pace. Amazing plane for the time.

Originally Posted by DONNIE G

ya gotta love the old stuff...

I think they still use those!(nice shot!)
Here's one of my favorites

Originally Posted by DONNIE G

ya gotta love the old stuff...

My aircraft commander on those camo Connies had been a fighter jock in Korea. He had a patch on his flight suit that read: "F-86, last of the sport models". Always put a smile on my face.