Posted on 04/27/2016 10:58:15 AM PDT by DFG
Boeing's 1933 247D Airliner is retiring to the Museum of Flight
The 1933 Boeing 247D Airliner arrived at the Museum of Flight after its final flight, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The plane is the oldest flyable Boeing, all-metal airliner. The plane will be on display in front of the museum throughout the summer, before it is placed in the new Aviation Pavilion.
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Nice looking old bird. I’m glad they have it to put in the museum.
Do they still fly the old Ford Trimotors out to the Bass Islands in Lake Erie off Sandusky?
Reminds me of a Beachcraft 18, only about 20% larger. Keep those feet on the rudder, especially on the ground!.
Not for years AFAIK...
Suffered from being the first to the market with an inability to quickly fill orders. Douglas jumped in, improved on the design, and started taking orders to fill the demand that Boeing had created.
As of 2012 there were still 18 Ford Trimotors flying. Great aircraft.
For any of you who don’t live in western WA, if you visit Seattle, the Museum of Flight is well worth seeing. They have a YF-12 (SR-71) in there, along with its drone. Very cool.
Don’t know but the EAA was giving rides in one at Oshkosh last I knew.
Can you say 'lift,' boys and girls?
I think that was the aircraft featured in Shirley Temple’s movie Curlytop.
Nice craft.
I think you mean wing thickness. Ford Trimotor: wingspan 78' 8" wing chord at root 154 inches wing thickness 42 inches (!)
The Tri-Motor came to Columbia a few years back and I bought a ride.
It was fun and the 30-45 minutes in it was plenty. 6’3 me was kind of cramped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85l5orYoBNM
This was done with a Canon 60D and a 50mm prime lens.
“They’ll never build them any bigger,” Boeing’s chief engineer R.J. Minshall on the 247
Great video.
There was one in my home town (Monmouth Il.) when I was very young. The owner paid for it by giving rides. For some reason I never got one. Monmouth is the oldest airport in Il.and has a lot of aviation history. John Livingston, the guy the seagull book is about, ran it at one time and my grandfather flew with him. I have a picture of grandpa next to John’s plane that appears to be a Hispano Suiso. We produced a lot of WWII pilots and I personally have known several. About 20 years ago I got to chatting with a good old boy farmer and mentioned that I was going to the Oshkosh airshow and loved the old warbirds. He replied “I wonder if my Mustang is still flying”!
Yeah, that’s what I meant... and ‘two feet’ kinda didn’t even touch the real number...
Glad you like it.
The tri-motor was supposed to come back a few months ago but structural problems I think postponed it.
I’d like to get another ride and try again in 4k.
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