Vintage shots from days gone by!

It looks like an early (no jet pods) Air Force B36 Peacemaker - ?

 

this rig rules.

 

That Wall Drug shot has a '59 Ford wagon in it...I wonder...this is in CO., in 1959.
Cosmo

 

God I wish I had a scanner !

 

Got a good digital camera? They work just as well - maybe even better. Just take a pic of your pics - voila.

 

Miami 1940

 

Yep, a B-36 from Carswell AFB (Fort Worth) buzzing the beach at Galveston. Six 28-cylinder, 4,360 cubic-inch four-row (7 cylinders per row) radial engines had to sound great. 56 spark plugs per engine makes for a total of 336.

 

Nah, this one's mint green and the one in front of Wall Drug was white. Remember, there were LOTS of '59 Ford wagons in the old days!

 

Put another candel on my birthday cake . with clutch cargo. GOD what I cant beleave I remember that. up there with Loyd Thaxton show.

 

Riverside's drag strip in the early days:




Sole XC-99 cargo plane at Kelly AFB, TX, 1953:




Colton, CA dragstrip, late '50s:




Wave-off at San Francisco, 1958:




Me, in the wite shirt, learning to ride a two-wheeler, 1966:




Chuck Yeager with the Model A the test pilots passed around. Whoever was the Fastest Man Alive at the moment got to drive the Model A. Edwards AFB, CA, c1950:




Old Indy:




Irwindale, CA, c1963:




Yosemite, 1963:




Another shot of the Colton drags, late '50s:




Somewhere in SoCal, 1956:




San Bernardino, CA, post-WWII:




Henry's drive-in, Pomona, CA, c1957:




Porterville, CA, airport, 1963. Photographing vintage WWI planes:




99 northbound near Fresno, 1963:



Gassers ease up to the line, 1963:

 

I know...and the shot by Wall Drug was later - 'cause there's a Falcon next to it, and a '60 over on the other side. The text was just a lead-in to the photo

But good eyes on the mint green, that was not the best photo for telling color.

Cosmo

 

Now you're in my teritory, spent a lot of time in those hangers at P'ville.

 

very cool pics

 

How cool is that!

 

Interesting photos of Steve McQueen with the yellow Stearman. He was an airplane buff. That was probably his airplane at Santa Paula airport in California in the 80's or earlier.

 

You are correct, although it was probably more late '70s he was a gonner in 1980 (50 years old )

 

I am going with drunk. He ha only 1 shoe.

 

The XC 99 was a based on the B-36. If it is indeed the one of one, there are some differences between the pictures. The limiting factor in the size of air craft in the 40's/50's was tire and brake technology. That is the basic reason the Spruce Goose was built as a sea plane. In the first photo, look at the main gear and the size of the tires. I believe those were the largest tires made at the time. In the second shot you can see the under carraige of the gear has been modified to accept multiple wheels and tires, Spreading the weight and the braking force to a larger contact area. Tire tech also had a factor in limiting jet engine application, as the extra speed of landings was to large an inertial shock on the huge tires and the gear necessary to handle them. Imagine a tire that size going from 0 to 150 mph nearly immediatly as it touched the runway.

 

No comment.

 

heres what "lucy" the elephant looks like now.I took this last year when i was in Jersey.
JimV

 

One thing I noticed is the roads look to be as rough back then as they do today so I guess nothing changes