Who Likes Aircraft ?

[Photon440]

 

[65Bel]

Lockheed L-10 Electra . . .

 

[65Bel]

Lockheed Model 12 Electra Juniors . . .

 

[Richard Cranium]

That's a beautiful aircraft.

 

[Dave6T4]

From the same era, I really like the Beech StaggerWing.

 

[65Bel]

Sky Aces Aerobatic Team . . .

 

[65Bel]

Pitts S-2A . . .

 

[65Bel]

Supermarine Spitfire . . .

 

[Armyvet25]

me in the army

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Got to fly a neighbors plane over our house

 

[Photon440]

The French inventor Henri Giffard managed the first powered flight in 1852, when he attached a steam driven propeller to his balloon. He flew around for twenty minutes on his first flight.

Meanwhile, 100 years ago, Goodyear launched their first of many famous blimps. Although Goodyear had been making airships for the navy as far back as WWI, this was the first that they used for themselves. It was also the very first helium filled blimp; previous uses were in rigid airships.

Goodyear currently maintains a fleet of four blimps these days. They weigh about ten tons, but when filled with helium, just 200 pounds. A slight negative buoyancy helps with handling.

 

[AR67GTX]

The French inventor Henri Giffard managed the first powered flight in 1852, when he attached a steam driven propeller to his balloon. He flew around for twenty minutes on his first flight.
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Meanwhile, 100 years ago, Goodyear launched their first of many famous blimps. Although Goodyear had been making airships for the navy as far back as WWI, this was the first that they used for themselves. It was also the very first helium filled blimp; previous uses were in rigid airships.
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Goodyear currently maintains a fleet of four blimps these days. They weigh about ten tons, but when filled with helium, just 200 pounds. A slight negative buoyancy helps with handling.
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About 30. years ago one of those was having some difficulty at night and was heading over North Little Rock to the NLR private airport to anchor/land at just over tree top level, with all sorts of lights and on a pitch black night. We were driving home after dinner in the hilly area just south of the airport and saw all these lights dancing through the distant trees and no discernible shape that we could see. It lingered, moving around the area but was so low that it was always behind trees. We pulled in the drive and called our backyard neighbors to run out and look at it and they didn’t know what it was. The next day the newspaper had the story as there were all sorts of reports UFO sightings and then also the story about the Goodyear Blimp making an emergency landing in NLR. A little girl in my Wife’s elementary class told her that “mommy saw a UFO last night and Daddy even got off the couch to go see it”.

 

[65Bel]

North American T-28B Trojan . . .

 

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