I always thought that the wings were design in a gull wing fashion to provide a small amount of lift when the plane is turning to the right or left but it was really designed that way so that the tips of the propeller would not hit the ground when the tail wheel is up when taking off or landing.
They are beautiful planes, built an hour south of me in Stratford, Ct. there was a reunion a few years ago I think they had nine of them. Most of them had women pilots that took them from the factory to their first base of operation. Bob
@ironfly28 - Thanks for posting up those great photos! Age the pics a little and they would look 70 years old. Great stuff!
I have a ww1 bayonet from the Canadian military. My father found it when he was in the paving crew in the 70’s doing the 400 hwy going north Found it in an abandoned farm house along with some helmets There are 9 notches on the handle and a name scratched into the blade. Neat bit of history.
I was at a military appreciation day at Carlisle War College this summer. They had a Mustang do several low level flyovers. Good grief they sound great, nothing like it.
My 46 IHC-KB-5, firetruck next to the Douglas DC-3 at the Toledo Washington airstrip, the "GOONEY BIRD " is still my favorite war bird.
Lee and I were changing out the Turbo's made by Maytag on the radial's built by Studebaker on the Piccadilly Lill II at Denton Airport one day and we test flew it around the area. It was part of the Confederate Air Force. Last picture is what I flew in Nam.
( My grandpa brought back some trench art from WW1, made from artillery shell casings.) I have seen a few pieces of trench art, and some were ash trays with rest for cigarettes but the engraved ones were really nice, just think how much time it took to do the engraving these with what they had to use for tools.
My '37 at an air show several years ago. They had a small car show and the photographer asked me to pose the car with the plane. I believe he said it was a Stearman, but I'm not sure after all this time..... IMG_0192a-4 by TagMan, on Flickr
I had a m35-a2 but traded that for a o.t. 75 vette. They were designed by REO in 1947, first one built in 49 and used into the 2000’s. Built by Studebaker, AMC, and AM General.
In the Army I flew Hueys, one afternoon when my Boss and I got back from a flight sitting at the "O Club" for a few shooters and pair of Air Force female pilots came up and asked us what we flew. We told them a Huey helicopter. They look at each other and smirk and said, so what is it like to fly a Huey". My Boss answered, "well it is a lot like masturbation, its a lot of fun....but you don't tell anybody about it".
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