Rad, whose is it? You guys restore planes too?
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Vintage aircraft photo thread
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WaterH
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Not very vintage. I took it yesterday.
Rttoys
Red Skull
Had another swing by today
Owned by Flying Heritage and Combat Armor museum. We are also working on their Bearcat, and Building a P38 for the owner.
I work for AirCorps Aviation in Mn.
What shop are you out of?
I took some pictures over at willow run airport of the old b24 liberator factory which became a terminal for a short time then back to hangers used by various cargo carriers over the years it’s empty now and guessing as most of the old buildings might not be around much longer
I was surprised when I moved back in 14 to see the zantop hanger come down. I also took a few pictures of the packard hanger as it’s still in use also the yankee air museum b52 on the other side of the road.
There’s still a few cargo carriers with there old treasures laying around like I remember but just not many here’s a photo dump of old and new pics figured they would fit in this thread.
I was surprised when I moved back in 14 to see the zantop hanger come down. I also took a few pictures of the packard hanger as it’s still in use also the yankee air museum b52 on the other side of the road.
There’s still a few cargo carriers with there old treasures laying around like I remember but just not many here’s a photo dump of old and new pics figured they would fit in this thread.
Ranchtruck
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Took a wander into the woods to take pics of this today:
Last flew in 2005 I think? It was mechanically restored in the mid 90's, flew around to a bunch of shows, then I think it needed engine work and he parked it at his own airstrip and never got around to it.
Last flew in 2005 I think? It was mechanically restored in the mid 90's, flew around to a bunch of shows, then I think it needed engine work and he parked it at his own airstrip and never got around to it.
Rttoys
Red Skull
Interesting. And cool 
I know a guy that worked at everts air he said getting parts was difficult and that was 20 yrs ago. I also remember seeing a 3 converted to turbo props at Oshkosh that was in the late 90’s .
smurfblue40
One day closer to retiring
My first time in the air was in a DC3, sad to see it left to rot 😕Took a wander into the woods to take pics of this today:
Last flew in 2005 I think? It was mechanically restored in the mid 90's, flew around to a bunch of shows, then I think it needed engine work and he parked it at his own airstrip and never got around to it.
6869704x4
Red Skull
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SanDiegoCJ
Non-Lemming
Never flew in a DC-3. Did fly in a Convair 440 on commuter hops between O'Hare and Mitchel Field a bunch though.
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giles45shop
Red Skull
Rttoys
Red Skull
I know it’s the same planes I post, but they are nice. This was the wedding of the daughter that’s dad owns the old warbirds. It was a fun air show after they tied the knot and the couple left in their husky for their honeymoon. Good times.
giles45shop
Red Skull
They are very cool! Here's pics of another Mallard I saw there
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Baldy
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That's a ****ing shame!Took a wander into the woods to take pics of this today:
Last flew in 2005 I think? It was mechanically restored in the mid 90's, flew around to a bunch of shows, then I think it needed engine work and he parked it at his own airstrip and never got around to it.
Takotruckin
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My FIL had some magazine writer contact him about doing a piece on his C-45 Expeditor he’s had and been working on for a few years.
350TacoZilla
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Looking through this thread again and one thing always strikes me. You look at 90% of the planes and they feel similar, a plane is a plane is a plane type of deal with some differences here an there but then you see SR-71 and it looks so far off from most planes, then you think about when it was designed and built and it just seems like alternate reality.
Here is my submission.
Here is my submission.
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smurfblue40
One day closer to retiring
SR-71 first flew in 1964 (according to google). Nothing (that I know of) has been built since that can do what it could do.
smurfblue40
One day closer to retiring
What is hanging off the bottom of that B-29 ???!?!!?Looking through this thread again and one thing always strikes me. You look at 90% of the planes and they feel similar, a plane is a plane is a plane type of deal with some differences here an there but then you see SR-71 and it looks so far off from most planes, then you think about when it was designed and built and it just seems like alternate reality.
Here is my submission.
Found it...
XF-85 Goblin.
Experimental parasitic fighter.
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there were designs for wingtip attachments for f84s too.
we were trying some wild **** in the 50's.
350TacoZilla
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Imagine a modern version of the Goblin... You could fit so many of them in a C5 and just roll them out like any other cargo drop then watch them deploy. Obviously war has changed and you could fit way more low cost and un manned drones but the Goblin has always been a plane I loved from childhood up.
Ranchtruck
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Eh its like the guys with a classic car rotting into the yard that they will never sell. If it wasn't in their yard it probably would have been scrapped decades ago. So while it isn't being cared for, it is still existing which gives it potential for the future.
Muckin_Slusher
Digging the same hole for 19 years.
Does it have landing gear? Or does it have to re-dock to the mothership? If there’s no longer a mothership, then just belly land?