Warbird Information Exchange

I really enjoyed this vid. It's almost like she's waiting for the crew to come aboard and start her up. She's looks ready to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B0odG0sZr0

Shay
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Semper Fortis

Very nice looking plane inside and out! The weather channel music, not very nice.

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

That answered a long time question about the location of the fuel tanks. My father told me they weren't below the floor like the -135, but I couldn't envision it....

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

When five of us from BFG were @ Dover back in 2000 doing some warranty workoffs on an exec Super 727, we were on the ramp right in front of the Museum. I found it to be first class and filled with friendly, helpful folks who knew their stuff. The KC-97 was in a hanger being pieced together @ that time. I remember that the tan porta-potti behind the right wing (visable in the right wing scan shot) had about 800 lbs of sandbags in it to keep it from blowing over, so your aim had to be pretty darned good to hit the objective flat footed on the tarmac!

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

The majority of the re-fuel load was carried in tanks on the lower level, essentially below the floor. You can see they are below the main floor level in the shot looking down through the red-rimmed opening in the floor. The tanks shown on the upper level carried only a small portion of the total load.

Walt

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If God had intended airplane engines to have horizontally-opposed cylinders, Pratt & Whitney would have built them that way.

Man does that bring back memories. More than likely I saw this plane while it was still in service with the 134th ANG in Knoxville during the mid-70s. Back in those days they had air shows all the time so I had plenty of opportunities to see the 97s up close.

BK

I believe in the early models, that is before the KC-97G/Ls, the only fuel was on the upper deck, with no tanks in the lower deck. Can anyone confirm this?

This type of video is exactly what I've always said should be available to museum visitors - can you imagine how nice it'd be to take a virtual tour of Enola Gay, the U-V P-61, or any number of great airplanes that very few of us will ever be invited to climb aboard?

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"Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves."

AMEN!

And I AMEN your AMEN!!

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"Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves."