Check These Pictures Out, Airplane ****

[rp23g7]

So, little story here.

My dad is a retired Boeing special projects engineer, after he retired he helped restore the museums B-17 and the Stratocruiser that went into the water off of Alki in Seattle, so they restored it again, and he is helping restore the B-29 they have.

He is a tour guide at the Seattle Museum of Flight with his spare time too.

So today he got permission to take me down to Plant 2, where the B-17 and B-29 were actualy made and we crawled all over them inside and out.

There are also some pictures of the Concorde, first 727, 737, 747 and Kennedy/Johnsons/Nixons Air Force One. The museum is also restoring a Lockheed Super Constellation, other pictures too.

Check em out

http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/rp23g7/MuseumofFlight/

 

[Donny]

Very cool! The Radial engines still fascinate me even 60 yrs after they were in use! Amazing!

 

[69 Runner]

sweet

 

[Al K]

Those radials have one of the sweetest engine sounds ever!:yes::yes::yes:

Great pics,thanks,and a salute to those who flew them!

 

[rp23g7]

Thanks everyone. i just cant imagine being a 17-21 yr old kid, and flying a combat mission in one of those, especially the B-17.

Flying at 15-20,000 feet with wind blowing through the airplane, and trying to do your job wearing all that flight gear. Incredible. Those radials are great engines,

I went to SSCC to get my A&P licence, and got the opportunity to take a R-2800 apart and back together, and run it up. It happened to be at night, wow, talk about the noise and blue exhaust flame, awsome sights and sounds.

The engine my dad is standing next to is the R-3350 Turbo-Compund engine. Those round things with the stack on them are little superchargers. I read that they can make 1000 more hp each. wow.

The cutaway next to the F4G Super Corsair is a R-4360, you should see hte pistons and valves in that thing.

 

[rp23g7]

Hats off to the maintenance guys that took care of the planes too. You see all the mechanical/electical things in there, then realize that probably after each mission something got shot up or damaged somehow.

Those mechanics must have worked their butts off.