Vintage shots from days gone by!

Only 1 built at Douglas Santa Monica Plant in this configuration with those massive wheels.
When it landed it buried the wheels into the runway, in came the multi wheel landing gear.
I have a photo of the take off.

 

Thanks, I was guessing either Fordson or Belarus, but that kinda looks like it could be ol' Henry himself in the white collar.

 

Why in the hell did you park on my patio?!?

 

TWO guys?
There's THREE in the picture I am looking at.

regards,Rod
" Shoulda' gone to Specsavers"

 

Yeah, I noticed that later. Hey, I'm old...

 

You too, 'eh? OLD is good !

regards (old) Rod

 

I pretty sure the Douglas B18 and C47 (DC3) shared a similar frame.

 

Nice!

 

The prototype B-17, designated Model 299, was designed by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and Edward Curtis Wells, and was built at Boeing's own expense. It combined features of the experimental Boeing XB-15 bomber which was instrumental also for the B-29. XB-15 was pressurized.

 

That's Denise Diplock's older sister Debby in the green dress.

 

After the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

Douglas only built one B-19, then the largest U.S. bomber ever built...unfortunately it was scrapped sometime after WWII, and only a wheel and tire remains, at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. There is a great video of the B-19 landing at March Field, maybe someone can find it.

 

GREAT photos....

 

Looks like Idaho Springs, Colorado

 

#90 still runs today on the Strasburg r.r. in PA.

 

Vegas Baby!

 

A frozen flood?