Cool Looking Airplanes

[Eyesa Horg]

Wow!!!

2 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

The Italian Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano.

 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

 

TBF* Avenger.  Dad was an eighteen-year old kid riding backward in the turret, flying off Ranger CV-4.

 

*TBF Avenger was a Grumman plane; TBM Avenger was essentially the same plane built by General Motors.

[Subdeacon Joe]

20 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Cool! It was probably one of these. I keep this in the den. A little over 6 feet long. 
 

 

 

 

Side note, some of our surveillance drones use wooden propellers.  That way if they don't clock properly when the engines shut off for landing the propeller snaps rather than the crankshaft.  

 

Another interesting aircraft, the Capelis XC-12.  https://www.airhistory.net/photo/634297/NX12762/X12762

 

"The only XC-12 ever built. Built by the Capelis Safety Airplane Company, it was registered as NX12762 on 12 Jan 1933, and first flew in the same year. It failed to attract commercial interest, and following a minor accident on 15 Apr 1938 the aircraft was permanently grounded, its registration cancelled in Aug 1938."

 

Held together with self-tapping screws.

 

 

 

 

 

[The Blarney Kid]

McDonnell XP-67

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 10/22/2024 at 2:08 PM, Eyesa Horg said:

If I could own a plane, I'd be a vintage one, preferably a Bi Plane.

If I could(afford one) I'd get a Beechcraft D-17 Stagger Wing biplane with upgraded everything.  

 

Had a barber friend in Pomona who had one and it was just plain ELEGANT! New engine, seats,  avionics, sound proofing, communications gear, almost an entirely new plane.  Pilot plus 3, relatively slow by modern standards, very quiet and comfortable, a just a very pleasant ride.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

TBF* Avenger.  Dad was an eighteen-year old kid riding backward in the turret, flying off Ranger CV-4.

 

*TBF Avenger was a Grumman plane; TBM Avenger was essentially the same plane built by General Motors.

 

Lost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1947.

ost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1949

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Just now, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

6 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

TBF* Avenger.  Dad was an eighteen-year old kid riding backward in the turret, flying off Ranger CV-4.

 

*TBF Avenger was a Grumman plane; TBM Avenger was essentially the same plane built by General Motors.

 

Lost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1949. I remember the fuss over it in the papers and on the radio.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

A purdy WACO

 

Pronounce WAHco, not WAHco.  I got straightened out on that by a guy who flew one out of Logan Airport in Northern Utah.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Lost seven (?) of them in the Burmuda Triangle about 1949. I remember the fuss over it in the papers and on the radio.

They found them in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Pronounce WAHco, not WAYco.  I got straightened out on that by a guy who flew one out of Logan Airport in Northern Utah.

Fixed it for you. 

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

One fighter jet not often mentioned was Grummans F9F Panther. I always thought it was a cool looking plane and built several models of it in my youth.

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

3 hours ago, Marshal Dan Troop 70448 said:

One fighter jet not often mentioned was Grummans F9F Panther. I always thought it was a cool looking plane and built several models of it in my youth.

 

My dad flew the F9F Cougar, a swept wing variant of the Panther.