Aircraft

[Texas Lawdog]

A Ford Tri-motor or a Junker JU 52.

[Delmonico]

I think the ruskie's might have made one also.

[Texas Lawdog]

They like to copy other folks designs and call em their own.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Tri's had a high wing, so did the Fokker.Almost looked like the same plane. the JU-52 had a low wing. All three had three engines. the Brits could have been Wellington's or Short Sterlings. the Lanc was a LARGE four motor job with a really high load capability. 10,000 or more. Think the tall Boy or Earthquake bombs. Check out inventor Barnes Wallace on those........Buck

[Steel Horse Bailey]

The Russkie corrugated is a Tupolev something or other.  It wasn't a "copy" of a Ford Or a Junkers.  The paratroopers got out over the wing and walked out and jumped off.  It was a BIG sumbitch but worked pretty well.

Try this:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_TB-3


Top of the line stuff ....

[Texas Lawdog]

Very interesting!

[Sod Buster]

Go to this link to see pics of the START CARTS needed to start up the SR-71.
http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/ag330_sr.htm

[Texas Lawdog]

Looks like there's a couple of duece and a quarter's sittin' around somewhere without their engines.

[Arcey]

News rag said the Navy boys at Oceana, God bless 'em, were gonna start werkin' on their routines for the air show. Weather's been bad. Real pretty taday. They started 'bout 0730. A couple come o'er close 'nuff I though they were gonna suck the shingles off. But that's ok. The least I can put up with. I LOVE jet noise!  It's the thunder of liberty. 

[Sod Buster]

I LOVE jet noise!  It's the thunder of liberty. 

A-men!

[Forty Rod]

wwiivehicles.com

or

www.shift.sk/military/linked/tb3/tb3.html

Good info on the Tupolev TB-3 (ANT-6) with pictures of paratroopers leaving the plane.  Sure was a big bitch for her day.

[Leo Tanner]

News rag said the Navy boys at Oceana, God bless ‘em, were gonna start werkin’ on their routines for the air show. Weather’s been bad. Real pretty taday. They started ‘bout 0730. A couple come o’er close ‘nuff I though they were gonna suck the shingles off. But that’s ok. The least I can put up with. I LOVE jet noise!  It’s the thunder of liberty. 

It is a great sound, but just not as inspiring ta me as the multi prop jobs.  Them come in low and the hairs on the back a my neck stand up.

Good link 40.  Tryin ta get ma daughter ta set down an watch Longest Day with me.  Hopin ta identify the plane this time around. 

[Texas Lawdog]

Arcey, I get chill bumps when I hear one of those Pratt and Whitney prop engines turn over and belch fire and smoke.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The sound of those big radials all thundering together is unforgettable. when we do have a visit from one, I can tell it from quite aways away.......................Buck

[Texas Lawdog]

Them WARBIRDS!  Ya Gotta Luv EM!

[Leo Tanner]

Yep, but Arcey did have him a point with them jets too.  They's just differnt.

[litl rooster]

Thanks Sod Buster and Forty for the links.....Looks like Sgt Holmes and I were on that flight line of the 9th at the same time.   I remember that sound to this day....it was loud!   I have a pretty cool photo of the "skunk" that is here at Hazy, taken from a chase plane and signed by the pilot

I never get tired of seeing the Fighter planes in the air..like Arcey sed.   My favorite sound is from the four engines on a HC130

[Texas Lawdog]

When I worked on the west side of Fort Worth, near Carswell, I heard all kinds of planes.  B-52, F-16, F-15, and C-130s.

[Arcey]

Aw, hell. If ya don't appreciate them old 'birds ya ain't givin' the boys whut flew 'em the the respect they earned I'm thinkin'.

Thing is, them young asses in them Hornets is protectin' my old ass while I sit in this chair. They can make all the noise they want, as loud as they want.. It's music ta me..... 

[Tensleep]

Any defender of freedom... anywhere, deserves our respect.