Golden Era Aircraft

[MissLaurieMarie]

I'm a reporter/photographer and this summer I got to experience the media day at the local air show. I love flying and aspire to get my license some day, so couple that with my love of vintage and I was the happiest girl in the world! Plus, it was also a week before my birthday AND I got paid to do it.
I was up in a homemade rocket plane (not vintage) but there were lots of vintage crafts up in the air:

The Harvard T6, the Yak-18T and the 1951 Dehavilland. (Laurie Callsen/ QMI Agency)

Warren Pietsch and his P-51 Mustang "Dakota Kid". This plane changed the face of WWII (Laurie Callsen/ QMI Agency)

Bud Granley flies the vintage T-6 Harvard, a plane that was not designed for aerobatics. (Laurie Callsen/ QMI Agency)

I have more photos from that day here if you're interested!

Miss L.

 

[TTO]

The SuperMarine S6-b, my all time favourite plane!

-TTO

 

[Story]

RACINE - A restored Ford Tri-Motor airplane built in the 1920s will be in Racine this spring for public viewing and flights. The plane will visit Racine's Batten International Airport, 3239 N. Green Bay Road, May 26 to 30 to kick off a spring and summer tour that includes 12 cities in five states. Racine is the only Wisconsin city on the tour, according to the Experimental Aircraft Association, which is organizing the tour and owns the plane, based at the EAA's Aviation Center in Oshkosh.

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_8e5b5498-69f1-11e0-8c7c-001cc4c03286.html

See also
http://museum.eaa.org/collection/aircraft/Ford TriMotor.asp

Summer tour dates for the MidWest
http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-02-17_trimotor.asp

 

[lord_k]

I volunteered at The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for two summers, where I was able to work around/with museum's collection of planes and autos (dating from 1900 to about 1935). http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/index.php

Thanks for sharing this.

 

[Stearmen]

Wow! $60.00 to fly for 15 minutes in a Tin Goose, not bad at all!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Junkers G38
Looks like it belongs in an Indiana Jones movie

 

[lord_k]

Junkers G38
Looks like it belongs in an Indiana Jones movie

There were two of them. The second one was a double decker with two passenger compartments in the wings.

 

[lord_k]

Boeing Model 314

The Model 314 had a 3,500-mile range and made the first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight June 28, 1939. By the year's end, Clippers were routinely flying across the Pacific. Clipper passengers looked down at the sea from large windows and enjoyed the comforts of dressing rooms, a dining salon that could be turned into a lounge and a bridal suite. The Clipper's 74 seats converted into 40 bunks for overnight travelers. Four-star hotels catered gourmet meals served from its galley.
Boeing built 12 Model 314s between 1938 and 1941. (Read more)

 

[lord_k]

Lydda Airport, Palestine. 1930s


From front: DH89 Dragon Rapide, A.W. Atalanta, Fokker FXVIII
LOC/Matson Collection
via A30yoyo @ Flickr

 

[lord_k]

Lightning & Lodestar, 1941



Mid-Continent Airlines were actually the launch customer for the Lockheed Lodestar, putting three of them into service (on "The Plains Route" as their network was known) early in 1940. The machine was a natural enhancement from the earlier Lockheed 14 (Super Electra), which, in turn had been developed from the model 10A Electra. (Ed Coates)

Image via paul.malon @ Flickr

 

[lord_k]

Sikorsky S-42B, 1935



via Konstantin Vahtangov @ Yandex

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;bYtazEBQ1K8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYtazEBQ1K8&feature=channel_video_title[/video]

 

[Story]

How I acquired the Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43!
http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?p=5357

 

[Stearmen]

How I acquired the Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43!
http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?p=5357

You got to love Kermit! While he was atendant collage, he was out side playing a guitar, when it dawned on him, he would never have to work a day in his life, thanks to a large inheritance from his Grandfather. So he started buying WWII fighters, and it took off from there.

 

[Stewart Field]

There's something about the DC-3 that "takes me back". I have a photo of a PanAm flight in my study.

 

[feltfan]

You guys seen these newly discovered photos of a WWII England air base?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49024304@N00/sets/72157608125792619/

 

[Atticus Finch]

A Golden Era J-3 and a very young Atticus. This photo was taken in 1972 or thereabout, probably close to the time I soloed. Old 89 Hotel was one of two planes my father owned in the early 'seventies, the other being a 1959 model 172. But the J-3 was pretty much on permanent loan to me when I was learning to fly.

Dad believed that an aspiring pilot should learn to fly in an aircraft with conventional gear and as few modern conveniences as possible. “Modern conveniences” being things like flaps, radios, electrical systems, starters and anything other than the most basic instruments. He said that in such an aircraft, a person could learn to actually fly, and not just learn to drive an airplane. And he understood that there is a difference. I remember that he wouldn’t even let me use the paved portion of the runway at Beaufort Airport. He made me use the grass shoulder of the runway because he had learned to fly on a grass field and he wanted the same for me.

AF

 

[Stearmen]

Your father was a very wise man!

 

[Talbot]

Two big thumbs up to your dad.

Love the cub!

Having a memory moment here, did the '59 172 have a square rudder?

 

[BigFitz]

Two big thumbs up to your dad.

Love the cub!

Having a memory moment here, did the '59 172 have a square rudder?