by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 03/23/2017 at 18:20
by "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
Published 03/23/2017 at 18:20
Tags: Planelopnik
STARS: 9
Another fun cutaway, this time a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/23/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 0
I got to climb in one, didn’t pay for the flight, pretty expensive. I met a guy at the supermarket who flew them, he had a B-17 hat on and I could tell he was 90+. So I said, nice plane, and he said he used to fly them. THEN his 90+ wife found us! Imagine the odds of living through the war bombing Germany and then both of them still alive. I saw this video yesterday of a Heinkel, it’s the only one flying, a Spanish built plane. Anyway I had never seen inside them, they dropped bombs vertically, tail down. It’s pretty cool to look at this thing:
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"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
03/23/2017 at 18:29, STARS: 1
The B-17 was my favorite WWII plane when I was little. So, this is very cool to me.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/23/2017 at 18:32, STARS: 1
It’s amazing to compare it to the B-29. The FF was very much a product of the 1930s, but the B-29 was the future, and it served into the 1960s.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/23/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
First plane I’ve ever been in. I knew how to say B-17 before I knew how to count to seventeen. Bird holds an absolutely special place in my heart.
Here’s a cutaway of another special plane, an F-4. In this case, an F4H-1F (F-4A)
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/23/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
I, too, paid to climb through a B-17G at an airshow in Texas. What amazed me was just how small it was inside. My fat self could barely squeeze through the catwalk in the bomb bay. But this is my favorite tidbit about the B-17. When I exited, I took a picture of this stencil on the fuselage:
Crew Weight: 1200 lbs
With a 10-man crew, the simple math tells us that each crew member weighed, on average, just 120 lbs. Of course, those things were crewed by 17 and 18 year old farm boys, and the pilots, who were considered old, were about 25. But it’s definitely true that people were smaller back then.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/23/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
Kinja’d
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/23/2017 at 18:37, STARS: 0
No, I just forgot to insert the image lol. Fixed
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/23/2017 at 18:39, STARS: 0
The F-86 and F-4 hold a special place in my heart, as those are the two that started my own mania about fighters.
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/23/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 1
Yeah, I am 5'9" and the pilot I met was like 5'6" at the most, well given that a 90 year old probably shrunk, but he was a thin build. I try to keep close to my Marine Corp fitness and I am almost 160 on average and I’m not very big. The leather jumpsuits and such weighed a lot I bet. Speaking of used so be small, the arms and armor exhibits in Europe have small suits of armor, we like to think they were huge but nutrition back then stunted them. I know in Japan the people are getting taller mainly due to milk protein, a doctor there said after WWII people began drinking milk and using it as the traditional diet just didn’t really have it.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
03/23/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 0
I’ve walked through the CASA 111 that belonged to CAF and their B17G -
Sentimental Journey.
The 111 has since crashed (2003) - was the last one flying, I believe.
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/23/2017 at 18:44, STARS: 0
Ohh, that video says 1997.... Perhaps we should just tour these planes on the ground, I love them but so many accidents have happened and then people die, sometimes audiences for shows.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/23/2017 at 18:45, STARS: 1
The F-86 is up there too. Wish I remember what the first fighter jet I got close to or saw fly was. Want to say an F-15.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/23/2017 at 18:47, STARS: 2
I saw the Blue Angels back when they were still flying F-4s. Yeah, I’m that old.
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/23/2017 at 18:52, STARS: 0
Jeez I wish I’d weighed that in the Army.
"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/23/2017 at 18:55, STARS: 0
See, the Army! :P you don’t get an option in the Corps son! I was also a forward observer/ intel with recon so I was on my feet all over the place with a lot of weight with me. I had to really eat to stay that weight!
"Viggen" (viggen37)
03/23/2017 at 19:08, STARS: 0
Ah. I was a POG aviator so weight came easily. I’m sure if I’d taken up my SOAR(A) orders I’d have got down to near your weight.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/24/2017 at 14:06, STARS: 0
Looks like as good a place as any to die. To think that we’d launch them by the hundreds.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/24/2017 at 14:11, STARS: 0
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
-Randall Jarrel
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/24/2017 at 14:15, STARS: 1
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
"gmporschenut also a fan of hondas" (gmporschenut)
03/25/2017 at 00:52, STARS: 1
it amazed me seeing one in person for the first time. I always imagined them much bigger. the crews were really crammed in there.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/25/2017 at 08:52, STARS: 0
The B-17 was very much an aircraft of the 1930s. The B-29 was a major evolutional step forward. I climbed indie a B-17 once at an airshow and I barely fit. It was all I could do to get down the catwalk in the bomb bay. I don’t know of you say my post elsewhere in this thread, about the max crew weight for the B-17 being 1,200 lbs. That means that every crew member had to average 120 lbs. Try finding ten 120-pound guys today.