I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2

Love to see it but im so far away @saragoodtimes

@braveheart21 if I can get a pic I'll post it

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@saragoodtimes I have a model of that plane.

@saragoodtimes i love those old warbirds. Through the later 60s I pulled a few extended rotations to the Canal Zone and did the milk runs through Central/South America where many of those aircraft were still flying. The Dominican Republic had a squadron of P51s and San Salvador was flying Corsairs. It was a more trusting world then and I was able to climb in a few cockpits and try them on for size. I can't remember where, but one airport had a British Mosquito that didn't look flyable. Also a B17 in La Paz. Time probably eventually wore those old planes out, but it was much like 30 & 40 year old automobiles still being very much alive in Central America; so were the old airplanes.

@Heartlander we were down in the DR a few years back and there were constellations on the runway in Santo Domingo

@saragoodtimes :) the golden era, when flying was an experience worth dressing up for.

The TWA museum in Kansas City (I believe) still maintains an old Connie.

@Heartlander

Iconic plane.

I wonder if the triple tail was really aerodynamically necessary, or if it was added for looks? 🤔

@Thinkerbell good question. A few of my Air Force friends went to C-121s AWACS, the military version of the Connie with the big dish on top. Never heard from them again, so probably a close, private assignment that also became a tight community.

A sleek airplane, like the high water mark before 707s arrived.

@Thinkerbell Most design in those days was a guess.

@Captain Yea, a trial and error design path. How many crashes did it take to make the Electra a super-stable machine.

@Heartlander Did you ever see a documentray called Alex Henshaw. He became test pilot at Castle Browmwich in World War Two, and tested the planes coming off the production line. Apparantly he took the first spitfire they wamd out on a foggy June morning infront of the workforce, took it up turned it on its wing and as it came down and did an inverted fly past of the runway at approx 6 toot off the ground - with the mist swirling off the vortices at each wing tip. My favourtire bit was apprantly he used to test the Lancasters off the prodcution line (heaviest bomber in ww2) by pulling them out of a dive into a steep climb then barrel rolling them for fun. They do say though the dehavilland mosquito was the best plane in the RAF in ww2. Neraly as fast as the fatest fighters, made o wood so it could take a batteijr gand had along range, and stonrg enough to carry a big bomb. I wouldn't know- to far before my time - and Ive never seen one let alone one fly.

@Captain Actually, I once saw a plywood mosquito up close. It was at the San Isidro Airport in the Dominican Republic in the mid 1960s. It was pushed off to the side of one of the parking ramps left to decay. A common sight at airports around the world.

Wow! was that a tiny airplane. I think I asked "where is the rest of it?" and was told "that's it!!" . The whole thing was about the size of a VW beetle.

Also at the time, the Dom Rep pilots were still flying P-51s and I got to watch a few landing up close. A made in Hollywood sight, open cockpits with neck scarves trailing in the wind.

The Brits have a thing for BIG bombers. Spent a bit of time at RAF Mildenhall and watched a few Vulcans overhead at just a few hundred feet. That sight alone would prompt me ro hoist a white flag up the flagpole :)

@Heartlander The vulcans used to fly over our shcool when I was 13-14 wiht olymous engines strpped underneath them They were tesing them for Concorde. They wer eno more tha 100 feet when the used ot pass over our matsh hut, same flight path every time.