Aviation History Snapshots

[ttyymmnn]

Gunnery training vehicle, Randolph Field

Ford-Stout 2-AT Pullman Maiden Dearborn, ca 1924. Designed by William Bushnell Stout and based on the corrugated metal skin designs of Hugo Junkers, Stout built the 2-AT and later the three-engine 3-AT, which eventually became the successful Ford Trimotor.

Lockheed YF-104A (55-2965) at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base

Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II lands aboard USS Essex (LHD 2)

Douglas DC-8 of Braniff Airlines at the Paris Air Show in 1975. Other aircraft visible are, left to right, Sud Aviation Caravelle, Airbus A300 (?), Tupolev Tu-144, Ilyushin Il 76, Lockheed L-1011.

The Space Shuttle Discovery and Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft take off from Kennedy Space Center

Curtiss Falcon with pontoons in flight. Falcons were flown by the US Army and US Navy, and Marine Corps Falcons were the first aircraft to receive the Helldiver nickname, which would appear famously on the SB2C Helldiver of WWII.

Curtiss F6C Hawks on board USS Lexington (CV 2) in 1928. The F6C was a navalized version of the Curtiss P-1 Hawk in US Army service and operated from the USS Lexington and USS Langley (CV 1) until 1930.

Convair F-106 Delta Dart ejection seat drawing

Coast Guard HNS-1 Hoverfly (Sikorsky R-4) with detachable floats. The R-4 was the world's first mass-produced helicopter and was flown in the first helicopter combat rescue in 1944. The R-4 served with the United States Army Air Forces, Navy, and Coast Guard, along with the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.

C-130 Hercules pilot wearing night vision goggles

Boeing 247D flown by Roscoe Turner being loaded on a ship bound for England for the MacRobertson Air Race from London to Melbourne in 1934. The race was won by the de Havilland DH.88 Comet Grosvenor House piloted by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, while second place was captured by a Dutch team flying a Douglas DC-2. Turner came in third place overall, and second in the transport division. Finishing behind the DC-2 was an ominous sign for the 247, as it would lose out to the improved Douglas DC-3 for large scale military and commercial airline adoption.

The US Navy Blue Angels fly in formation with Boeing B-29 Superfortess Doc. Doc was manufactured in 1944 and never saw combat service, but was instead flown as a target tug and later used as a ballistic missile target. The bomber was restored and took its first flight on July 7, 2016. Doc is now the second airworthy B-29 after Fifi, which belongs to the Commemorative Air Force.

Beechcraft Staggerwing (cn B-1, NC80302) in 1947, the first production Beech Model G-17S

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses of the 100th Bomb Group

Aircraft of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base. Clockwise from bottom: Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, North American F-100 Super Sabre, Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, Republic YF-105 Thunderchief

[ForSweden]

Me: Can we have Century Series?

Mom: We have Century Series at Home

Century Series at home (C-107)

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn said in Aviation History Snapshots:

Coast Guard HNS-1 Hoverfly

That's so weird seeing the pontoons detached like that. Reminds me of the shuttlecraft dropping the warp sled in TMP.

[ttyymmnn]

@skyfire77 It's unclear to me whether he is leaving them behind or landing on them. Either way, it seems kind of sketchy.

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn Seems to me that landing on pontoons already floating would be solidly in the "Sure you could, but why?" category.

[RallyWrench]

@ttyymmnn I need that gun cart in my life. I want to motor around town in it.

[ttyymmnn]

@skyfire77 said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@ttyymmnn Seems to me that landing on pontoons already floating would be solidly in the "Sure you could, but why?" category.

My first thought was, "It's all new. We don't know what we are doing here." But there had been pontoon aircraft for years, so that was hardly new.

No idea.

[ttyymmnn]

@rallywrench said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@ttyymmnn I need that gun cart in my life. I want to motor around town in it.

Great for rush hour.

[Chariotoflove]

@ttyymmnn

Cool to see Doc in flight after we followed @Bman76's work with it.

[Bman76]

@chariotoflove said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@ttyymmnn

Cool to see Doc in flight after we followed @Bman76's work with it.

It's just such a cool plane. So glad I got to work on a home for Doc, truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for me.

[Chariotoflove]

@bman76 said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@chariotoflove said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@ttyymmnn

Cool to see Doc in flight after we followed @Bman76's work with it.

It's just such a cool plane. So glad I got to work on a home for Doc, truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for me.

And we really appreciated you sharing it with us.

[ttyymmnn]

@chariotoflove said in Aviation History Snapshots:

@ttyymmnn

Cool to see Doc in flight after we followed @Bman76's work with it.

Can't wait to see her (him?) at an airshow.

[Highlander]

@ttyymmnn My neighbor flew for Eastern when they all went on strike in 1989, then closed up shop a few years later. He needed a job and getting seat time in a 757/767 was pretty attritive.

[Smallbear]

@ttyymmnn For some reason I thought only 707's got Calder's artwork. But there's both the signature and the nose ducts, so...

TIL