This has to be one of the best series on aviation I have seen so far.Whilst it is of course US orientated,with only the very occasional mention of any other aviators or aircraft in the rest of the world,this is to be expected.The collection at the national air and space museum looks to be well worth a visit.What is a shame is that so much of the collection is 20 feet in the air preventing visitors from studying them more closely,I know it would drive me nuts not be able to walk around them.
"Tex" Johnson famous Boeing test pilot, remember he did two barrel rolls in the New Boeing Dash 8 prototype of the 707 and Kc135 over the Lake washington Hydroplane course summer of 1955...."What the hell did you think you were doing??? (Tex) " I was selling airplanes..." and did he..that was a spectacular site that day...I was there and watched it...the man had balls...
Gary Tarr I was born BEFORE the USA was involved in WW II do the math you dumb shit...I am quite a bit older than you !!! se if you can figure it out... dumbshit I watched Tex Johnson do the barrel roll over the hydro course in 1955 in the Dash80 DUH !!! as a teenager !!!
Speaking as someone who's been a licensed Pilot since 1975 the level of frustration and profanity expressed in some of the posts below is disappointing yet understandable.
quote/ In the 1920s, Fokker entered its glory years, becoming the world's largest aircraft manufacturer by the late 1920s. Its greatest success was the 1925 F.VIIa/3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which was used by 54 airline companies worldwide and captured 40% of the American market in 1936. It shared the European market with the Junkers all-metal aircraft, but dominated the American market until the arrival of the Ford Trimotor which copied the aerodynamic features of the Fokker F.VII, and Junkers structural concepts. //endquote(Wikipedia)
Do any of you realize that this program is based on aircraft in the Smithsonian Air & Space museum? Of course it it US centric. There are very few British aircraft in the collection. It wold be like whining about a documentary about Shuttleworth and bitching that there are no P-51 Mustangs. But, well, lets ignore a fine program to argue semantics.
This has to be one of the best series on aviation I have seen so far.Whilst it is of course US orientated,with only the very occasional mention of any other aviators or aircraft in the rest of the world,this is to be expected.The collection at the national air and space museum looks to be well worth a visit.What is a shame is that so much of the collection is 20 feet in the air preventing visitors from studying them more closely,I know it would drive me nuts not be able to walk around them.
Thanks for posting this.
This is the FIRST time I heard anyone call the Tin Goose a "quiet airplane" ;-)
14 seconds in... Now that is a quality moustache!
"Tex" Johnson famous Boeing test pilot, remember he did two barrel rolls in the New Boeing Dash 8 prototype of the 707 and Kc135 over the Lake washington Hydroplane course summer of 1955...."What the hell did you think you were doing??? (Tex) " I was selling airplanes..." and did he..that was a spectacular site that day...I was there and watched it...the man had balls...
Wilbur Finnigan A part of your anatomy you seem to be missing
Gary Tarr I was just starting high school !!! DUH !!! DUH !!! Where were you then ?????????
Gary Tarr I was born BEFORE the USA was involved in WW II do the math you dumb shit...I am quite a bit older than you !!! se if you can figure it out... dumbshit I watched Tex Johnson do the barrel roll over the hydro course in 1955 in the Dash80 DUH !!! as a teenager !!!
Speaking as someone who's been a licensed Pilot since 1975 the level of frustration and profanity expressed in some of the posts below is disappointing yet understandable.
quote/
In the 1920s, Fokker entered its glory years, becoming the world's
largest aircraft manufacturer by the late 1920s. Its greatest success
was the 1925 F.VIIa/3m trimotor passenger aircraft, which was used by 54 airline companies
worldwide and captured 40% of the American market in 1936. It shared
the European market with the Junkers all-metal aircraft, but dominated
the American market until the arrival of the Ford Trimotor which copied the aerodynamic features of the Fokker F.VII, and Junkers structural concepts.
//endquote(Wikipedia)
I like the model A transporter @ 20:56
Do any of you realize that this program is based on aircraft in the Smithsonian Air & Space museum? Of course it it US centric. There are very few British aircraft in the collection. It wold be like whining about a documentary about Shuttleworth and bitching that there are no P-51 Mustangs.
But, well, lets ignore a fine program to argue semantics.
That mustache
Ford Try motor is a copy of a Junkers airplanes
+marco ”t500” jonker Not really. Very different configuration. If Trimotor was copy of something, it was copy of Fokker F.VII.
Ford copied the aerodynamics from the Fokker and the construction details from the Junckers.