What a marvellous project, and a beautiful aircraft!I lived in the Finger Lakes in NY, and at the end of our lake in Hammondsport was the Curtiss Museum. The volunteers that worked there had a complete shop where they constructed a replica of Glenn Curtiss first flying boat, The America.
They used the original plans and the original 1918 engines! Here she is on her maiden flight: View attachment 1808572
Couple of friends of our family were the pilots.
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This was the year before, on their first try to get her off the water, but they didn't get the rebuilt engines in time for this try. View attachment 1808574
V-8 Engines were built by Glenn Curtiss. Prior to building this plane, Glenn Curtiss built a V-8 motorcycle and in 1907 he rode it to land speed record of 136.04 mph, which held for many years.
To learn more about Glenn Curtiss and for more great pictures of his planes visit: https://glennhcurtissmuseum.org
I lived in the Finger Lakes in NY, and at the end of our lake in Hammondsport was the Curtiss Museum. The volunteers that worked there had a complete shop where they constructed a replica of Glenn Curtiss first flying boat, The America.
They used the original plans and the original 1918 engines! Here she is on her maiden flight: View attachment 1808572
Couple of friends of our family were the pilots.
View attachment 1808573
This was the year before, on their first try to get her off the water, but they didn't get the rebuilt engines in time for this try. View attachment 1808574
V-8 Engines were built by Glenn Curtiss. Prior to building this plane, Glenn Curtiss built a V-8 motorcycle and in 1907 he rode it to land speed record of 136.04 mph, which held for many years.
To learn more about Glenn Curtiss and for more great pictures of his planes visit: https://glennhcurtissmuseum.org
Man, y'all are not holding this thread together since covid-19 bit into air travel. Well no excuse now, airplanes are flying again for more than just military transport, and so they are also showing up in the news. This is a fun piece about a "time capsule" note left in a Delta plane being parked in March of 2020 for long term storage as the pandemic began to bite into regular passenger travel. The note was finally found and and read the other day when the plane was being readied for use again after such a long time.
A Delta pilot left a note behind last March - 435 days later, another pilot found the ‘pandemic time capsule.’
"If you are here to pick it up then the light must be at the end of the tunnel."www.inquirer.com
Maybe off topic, who’s playing FS2020? What are your impressions?
Watched this a couple of weekends ago. Incredible amount of noise. If you watch the video, be sure to turn the sound up.
Seems like passengers at least in the States are outgrowing airlines economy seats…
Haha, yes, I remember that - I did a bit of work with DID while they were developing it. I seem to recall it was problematic, verging on disastrous. Seems like ancient history now, yet the real Typhoon still seems brand new.
Haha, yes, I remember that - I did a bit of work with DID while they were developing it. I seem to recall it was problematic, verging on disastrous. Seems like ancient history now, yet the real Typhoon still seems brand new.