[Yosemitest]

Let me make this clear.

David Mars's 1929 Curtiss Robin "N3277G" was the support aircraft that took off and landed for 27 days, refueling Ole Miss.

I bought this movie Pearl. I enjoyed it.
I recommend you watch it with children, say 8 years old and older.
Watch it with a young girl and watch her face.
It's a true story, and a great aviator's story, as well as an encouraging story about mentoring and how you never know who's going to assist you next.

I also bought the book Never Give Up!: The Life of Pearl Carter Scott, but I haven't read it, yet.
Click on the photos below to connect to their source.

Rush, you got to watch and read this. I think it'll be worth your time.
Watch out for the leaking eyes.

[GOPJ]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing...

[kalee]

Will get the movie for a girl I know. Thanks.

[Yosemitest]

Watch this music video, Just One Dream.

Tryston Skye and his brother Alec Carson were chosen as one of the 1939 extras for this video.
Music Video "Just One Dream" performed by Cross Country.
This video was made for the movie, "Pearl".
This music video and the movie, "Pearl" were done by the Chickasaw Nation Multimedia and Media 13.

[Yosemitest]

Ping.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting. Can you imagine the difficulty of doing that endurance flight in the depths of the depression in the South? I wonder if it was viewed as uplifting and inspirational or as a waste of precious wealth in a land of severe poverty.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I’m not an aircraft guy but enjoy things with pistons and pushrods...

Nice!

Curtiss OX-5

http://www.pilotfriend.com/aero_engines/aero_ox5.htm
Though the OX-5 bottom end was reasonably good, typically having a time-between-overhaul (TBO) of a few hundred hours, the valve gear was both fragile and troublesome. It had no provisions for lubrication other than grease and oil applied by hand. Fifty hours was the typical limit of the valve train

27 days x 24 hrs = 648 hrs!

See it run!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDd94xowWfs

[Yosemitest]

Here's another photo of Pearl.