Boeing 40C - Return to Flight After 80 Years!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- February 17, 2008 - Addison Pemberton pilots his 1928 Boeing 40C biplane after a several year restoration project. This aircraft last flew 80 years ago. See www.pembertonandsons.com for more history and information.
2 Classics, Boing 40c, and 1962 Ford Galaxy Convertable chase car.
beautiful
WOW!!! What a thrill it is to watch this beautiful piece of American History take to the sky's again. :-) It gave me chills watching her take off. :-) Congratulations to the team that made this happen!
Pretty cool!
Back in the infancy of passenger air travel, economists and designers were trying to do the crystal ball thing. Designers knew that persons wanting to sample travel across distances via air would be few; those with large disposable incomes and a sense of adventure. Economists determined that combining air mail with passenger air travel was the best shot at profitable commercial aviation. Pilots determined that an open cockpit and isolation from the passengers was preferable.
By the early 1930's, monoplane designs dispensed with the biplane. New configurations placed the cockpit down behind the passengers or up ahead of the passengers; sometimes high up on the leading edge of a high wing. By the mid-1930's, designers had a completely new configuration: a long tube with the cockpit right up at the nose and the passengers in rows directly behind. Volia! Add in swept wings and jet powerplants (the CAB had long since dictated that passenger air transport had to have at least two engines). Thus was born the modern passengers airliner configuration.
how do passenger get into fuselage?
Just saw a video of one at the Henry Ford Museum, and if correct, it shows that there is a door of sorts right in the area of the wings and the passengers climb into the Fuselage that way, but sitting area inside of it is Extreamly Cramped........if you looked at the area inside of the wings, those slots that you see are actually windows of sorts I do believe for the passengers to look out of....
It was primarily intended to transport mail. It does have room for passengers, but that wasn't its primary role