« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Today in 1947  (Read 776 times)

Offline rpm

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 15661
Today in 1947
« on: November 02, 2015, 03:51:58 PM »

Howard Hughes' famous Spruce Goose... err, H-4 Hercules took it's one and only flight and became the largest airplane ever to fly. After its completion, it was three times larger than the largest aircraft built before it. Now surpassed by the Antonov 225, it still holds the records for widest wingspan and the largest flying boat ever.

It now resides at the Evergreen Aviation Educational Center in McMinnville, Oregon.

Logged
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Stay thirsty my friends.

Offline MrKrabs

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2152
      • AH-Freebirds.com
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2015, 03:56:02 PM »
And all that on prop-driven engines...

Logged
The boiling pot is put away and the crab has gone back to sea...

Offline Scherf

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3409
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2015, 09:51:58 PM »
Wikipedia tells me Roddis Manufaturing of Wisconsin were involved in the laminated wood construction - they also did plywood for the Mosquito, though I don't know if that was only for Canadian production or for the U.K. as well.
Logged
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

Offline colmbo

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2246
      • Photos
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2015, 07:49:16 AM »
Quote from: MrKrabs on November 02, 2015, 03:56:02 PM
And all that on prop-driven engines...

Ummm….I think the engine drives the prop.   :devil
Logged
Columbo

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" and the warrior whispers back "I AM THE STORM"

Offline bozon

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6037
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2015, 11:38:41 PM »
When you have to put 8 engines on anything, you know it is wrong.
Logged
Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

Offline MiloMorai

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6864
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2015, 11:53:38 PM »
Quote from: bozon on November 03, 2015, 11:38:41 PM
When you have to put 8 engines on anything, you know it is wrong.

The B-36 was wrong as it had 6 and 4 for a total of 10?
Logged

Offline pembquist

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1928
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2015, 12:35:40 AM »
Quote from: bozon on November 03, 2015, 11:38:41 PM
When you have to put 8 engines on anything, you know it is wrong.

not if your in the rod forging business
Logged
Pies not kicks.

Offline bozon

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6037
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2015, 06:13:48 AM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on November 03, 2015, 11:53:38 PM
The B-36 was wrong as it had 6 and 4 for a total of 10?
Yes.
Logged
Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

Offline MiloMorai

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6864
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2015, 06:14:59 AM »
B-52 has 8 engines.
Logged

Offline bozon

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6037
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2015, 09:55:32 AM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on November 04, 2015, 06:14:59 AM
B-52 has 8 engines.
And it needed every one of them to carpet bomb trees.
Logged
Mosquito VI - twice the spitfire, four times the ENY.

Click!>> "So, you want to fly the wooden wonder" - <<click!
the almost incomplete and not entirely inaccurate guide to the AH Mosquito.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOWswdzGQs

Offline Nypsy

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 847
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2015, 10:44:34 AM »
Quote from: bozon on November 04, 2015, 09:55:32 AM
And it needed every one of them to carpet bomb trees.

Those trees were trouble makers.
Logged

Offline USCH

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1713
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2015, 06:00:49 PM »
Quote from: bozon on November 04, 2015, 09:55:32 AM
And it needed every one of them to carpet bomb trees.
they were collaborators.
Logged

Offline Meatwad

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 12881
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2015, 08:44:03 AM »
They were "sapping" the earth of its precious fluids
Logged
See Rule 19- Do not place sausage on pizza.
I am No-Sausage-On-Pizza-Wad.
Das Funkillah - I kill hangers, therefore I am a funkiller. Coming to a vulchfest near you.
You cant tie a loop around 400000 lbs of locomotive using a 2 foot rope - Drediock on fat women

Offline earl1937

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2290
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2015, 04:53:07 AM »
Quote from: bozon on November 04, 2015, 06:13:48 AM
Yes.
:airplane: The one fact you can't get around about the B-36 is: It could carry 10,000 lbs of bombs, 10,000 miles non stop! While I doubt any of them would survive a "armed" conflict against the "Russkies", they didn't have to be refueled a dozen times to get them to their target and return. I think when the "planners" designed this aircraft, they knew it would be a one way mission anyway! I think it was designed and build for the purpose which it served, a "threat" to Russia!
Logged
Blue Skies and wind at my back and wish that for all!!!

Offline MiloMorai

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6864
Re: Today in 1947
« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2015, 05:31:55 AM »
Nope earl. It was built to fight the Nazis from North America.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »