Name that plane Quiz

[AAFO_WSagar]

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LOL, that was fun. DING DING DING! we have a winner!

Well done Mr. Whiteside. How did you know?

Yes folk's , it's the Spruce Goose! (sorry Wayne! )
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LOL.. I've been where you are standing in the first shot



... and



when she looked like this



Looks like you got pretty unprecidented access where in the world within her were you with the mystery shot?

[flyingjibus]

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If you look directly behind were I am standing in the first shot ( not the one on the ladder) there is a hatchway. Through that hatchway is another area that looks like the one in the shot. there is a ladder at the end of it that goes up. Its hard to say where I was going on that ladder, perhaps up into the vertical stabilizer? All I know for sure is that the ladder kept going up a lot further, but I could not see any more so I stopped there!

Unprecedented access is a bit modest, It pays to have your father as the Docent. It was pretty cool. Amazing Machine.

[AAFO_WSagar]

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AHHH!! That splains it.. when I was in her, the tail was somewhere else (in a different hut)

Have you been in the wings? There are plywood "platforms" that have the people capacity on them.. that was how Hughes was able to say it would carry x amount of troops and also their "stuff" some would actually ride in the wings!! Engines could also be serviced, somewhat, in flight...

All in all, a pretty amazing craft. I used to be able to "crawl all over it" when Gary Thompson was the "man" out there.. once he left, before the museum was completed, that went away...

Wayne

[rvr1800]

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How is that possible?

Long time ago, a friend took me on a tour of the Travis AFB. Part of that trip was getting to climb all over a C-5 undergoing some kind of maintenance check. We climbed the scaffolding surrounding the entire tail section all the way to the top and then took photos of each other and other C-5s on the ramp. I hate heights(and yet I'm a pilot?)but it was wild to look DOWN at the roof of the hanger that the plane was too large to fit in!

Later I got an hour in the sim.

[Inverted]

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Is the spruce goose back together again?

[race9]

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Yes, I was there last summer and it seemed finished to me.

[flyingjibus]

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Its been back together for years!!!

The Evergreen Air and space museum is a world class facility. They will be getting the space shuttle pretty sooon.

They have a german G model 109! amongst many many other things

http://www.sprucegoose.org/

[race9]

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I agree, great collection, and they are supposed to have a Space and Missile section soon.

[flyingjibus]

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space and missle section is done.

Anyone want some wiring from a titan missle?

[wolfee]

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It is a known and documented fact that my Grandfather and Mr. Hughes were good friends.

Many years ago my Father talked to a gentleman that was a partner of MR. Hughes. He was telling stories of different Projects he and my Grandfather was involved in, and one of them was the Goose. He whent so far as to say my grandfather was in the cockpit with MR. Hughes when she flew.

Now, this is NOT documented anywere. It is only hear say. But damm what a story to pass down to your kids eh!

I wish there was some way of verifying this story. But to my knowledge thier isnt any way to do so now. Memories have faded, people have passed on, and no documentation has ever been found.

Wolfee

[Propellerhead]

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It is a known and documented fact that my Grandfather and Mr. Hues were good friends.

Many years ago my Father talked to a gentleman that was a partner of MR. hues. He was telling stories of different Projects and my Grandfather was involved, in and one of them was the Goose. He whent so far as to say my grandfather was in the cockpit with MR. Hues when she flew.

Now, this is NOT documented anywere. It is only hear say. But damm what a story to pass down to your kids eh!

I wish there was some way of verifying this story. But to my knowledge thier isnt any way to do so now. Memories have faded, people have passed on, and no documentation has ever been found.

Wolfee

Mr. Hues?

Sounds colorful.

[Ken from PG]

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:lol

Good one Rob!

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Com'on guys.. some of us are not very good spellers but that should never diminish our message...

[wolfee]

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Oh my, how embarrissing!



Thanks for pointing that out, it has been fixed.

[gorace71]

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My father, recently deceased at 94, was the Structural Engineer for the HG-1 fuselage. He left Hughes in 1944 after most of the design had been completed. He had many stories about HH. (He was Hughes employee number 120 when he graduated from college in 1938. When he was the engineer at Fleetwings division near New York City for the FX-11 project, the contract, which I have a mimeographed copy, stated that the only two persons who could provide direction to Fleetwings were Howard Hughes, and Harold Patton as "assistant Project Engineer. As a result, he talked nightly, from the bedroom, to HH about details of the design and spent hours with him on the most minute details. The story of how my mother got two phone lines installed in one day in their house on Long Island in 1944 was typical HH.

He had never seen the completed aircraft until I flew him up to Evergreen about four years ago. He could still quote the stations of the bulkheads in the fuselage and describe the details of the fuselage fabrication. He wrote a fair amount about his career in missiles and space and was considered the "Father of the 2.75 folding fin rocket"

Bruce Patton