Who Likes Aircraft ?

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[oldbee]

Took these photos of the full-size C-17 back in May while covering a R/C event at the old Castle AFB.
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Speaking of the C-17, oldest was in Shanghai last year and saw the Chinese version. The Chinese person with them said "no,no not a copy" ; well my son said it sure looked exactly the same to him. Rotten f_______!

 

[Photon440]

Boeing's Jumbo plane of the 1940s.

 

[Slap Stick]

The B-377 wasn't very successful. Only 55 were made. Pan Am started using them in 1949. Northwest, United and BOAC were the primary users.
They had reliability problems and were very expensive to operate. The only way they were profitable was to have the contracts from USPS.
Pan Am put their last one to pasture in 1961.
The 707, DC-8, etc were smaller but faster and much more economical and reliable.

 

[Dipstick]

More successful as the Air Force C-97. Of course, our taxes paid the maintenance bill.

https://www.boeing.com/history/products/c-97-stratofreighter.page

 

[Slap Stick]

And then they morphed into the Guppy series of freighters but switched to turbine engines.

 

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[Slap Stick]

On tv right now on the Quest channel they are showing a documentary on the Super Guppy.

 

[Duckmanreno]

On tv right now on the Quest channel they are showing a documentary on the Super Guppy.

Didn't the Super Guppy carry some of the assembled pieces for the Apollo rockets?

 

[Slap Stick]

Yes it did.

 

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