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Title: Today in 1947
Post by: rpm 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.

(http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-largest-airplane-ever-built-antonov-an-225-mriya-10.jpg?w=600&h=838)
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: MrKrabs on November 02, 2015, 03:56:02 PM: And all that on prop-driven engines...
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: Scherf 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.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: colmbo 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
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: bozon on November 03, 2015, 11:38:41 PM: When you have to put 8 engines on anything, you know it is wrong.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: MiloMorai 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?
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: pembquist 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
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: bozon 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.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: MiloMorai on November 04, 2015, 06:14:59 AM: B-52 has 8 engines.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: bozon 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.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: Nypsy 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.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: USCH 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.
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: Meatwad on November 05, 2015, 08:44:03 AM: They were "sapping" the earth of its precious fluids
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: earl1937 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!
Title: Re: Today in 1947
Post by: MiloMorai on November 08, 2015, 05:31:55 AM: Nope earl. It was built to fight the Nazis from North America.