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Some Flying Boat History + Airline Pilot Uniform Design and Why
you Board on the left=PORT side 🧐
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 16, 2024, 3:46 pm
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[center]A Clipper Ship properly docked with it's PORT side to
the [glow=blue,2,300]PORT[/glow] 🧐[/center]
[center]This GIANT Seaplane Reveals Why Flying Boats Failed
😕[/center]
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The Spruce
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/>BIRCH 😎) Goose is an aviation icon that started off as
a
sensible but incredibly ambitious wartime aircraft project,
driven by one mans passion. But the only reason it ever got to
fly is because that passion became an obsession.
Today, we'll look at how Howard Hughes developed and maintained
the H-4 Hercules over a period of decades, the history of
seaplanes and flying boats, and why the Spruce Goose will be
forever be remembered as a truly classic aircraft.
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Below you will find the links to videos and sources used in this
episode.
SOURCES
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Flight of the Spruce Goose
HOWARD HUGHES FLYING BOAT - SPRUCE GO...
The Howard Hughes Archive
Howard Hughes - H-4 Hercules - A.K.A ...
"Size 36" The first public movie fil...
Flying Boats 1930`s - Britain`s Pione...
The Boeing 314: Pan Am's Greatest Fly...
China Clipper: Pan Am's Conquest of t...
The Battle of the Atlantic
(1/12) Battlefield I: The Battle of t...
Boeing Model 314 Clipper Assembly and...
De Havilland Mosquito: The wooden fig...
Henry Kaiser Think Big
Howard Hughes - Decades TV Network v
Hughes H-1 Racer Test Flight, US Tran...
Sky High: The Story of TWA | 2001
HAC Hughes Aircraft Company: A Legacy...
TA-1 First Flight
Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner Developm...
The Cessna Caravan: One Aircraft. Eve...
The Spruce Goose's Maiden (and Only) ...
Airport | Shell Historical Film Archive
China Clipper: Pan Am's Conquest of t...
First Flight of the second Hughes XF-... v
How the US Started Code Breaking | Th...
Impact of World War II on the U.S. Ec...
Evergreen Museum: Moving into the Future
The Spruce Goose and its journey to M...
Antonov AN-225 cargo transporter
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AGelbert COMMENT:
@soberthinking2102
Sea water is the mother of corrosive environments. Metals on
aircraft must of necessity be light so flying boats will have a
MUCH shorter structurally sound life than a ship, which has a
heavy thick metal structure. Thus, seaplanes are less cost
effective than land based aircraft. 😟
@diablouser August 13, 2024
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> My father worked for Hughes Aircraft. He was employee number
32 or 33. He graduated from Carnegie Tech as a Aircraft
structural engineer. He had numerous involvements with Howard
himself, including related to the Spruce goose, the lead
engineer for the structural design of the fuselage. he also was
the Hughes representative at Fairchild when they built the wings
and tail section of the twin engine recon aircraft. He taught
Howard structural engineering one night in Howards kitchen, and
said that it was scary how fast he picked up the ideas. After
that overnight session, you couldnt pull any wool over his eyes
on structural design.
>
> My mother was the secretary for the production manager to
Hughes Aircraft . Howard paid for their honeymoon when, almost
without any warning, he sent five people to do the design for
the flying boxcar for another company. When my father was in New
York working on the reconnaissance job, my mother couldnt get
to New York from LA because she had 🐈🐱 two cats.
Hughes put her, the cats and a servant on a im a railroad
carriage.
>
> He had numerous other interactions with Hughes until he
finally resigned about three months before World War II ended.
To do that he had to get permission from Hughes to resign and
Hughes flow him from New York to LA and put him up with the
cottages at the I forget the name of it restaurant hotel in
Hollywood.
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