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To: Sundog
[cue Paul Hogan voice as in "that's not a knife, THIS is a KNIFE!"]

Now THIS is a Flying Boat. ;)
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34 posted on 04/04/2006 10:47:04 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: mkjessup

That is an American flying Boat. Done quite a few years earlier. Howard Hughes was in the cockpit when that picture was taken. The world had to wait for the 747 to get an airplane with larger proportions.

I visited the museum where that is stored. Largest radial engines ever made.

The government should have bought a hundred of them and really opened up the Alaskan interior. You probably know of the political trials at the time, Howard finished paying for the construction of that one himself.


61 posted on 04/05/2006 9:24:58 AM PDT by Sundog (Cheers.)
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