Warbird Information Exchange

Some of you maybe familiar with this site called Mission 4 Today. They have a running thread there containing many, many pics of old, vintage planes. It's the best one I have seen so far. It's 18 pages and the good pics start at the bottom of page two with pics of Howard Hughes and one of his planes. Credit a poster by the name of Poor Old Spike for digging these pics up and posting them. Here's a small tease of the oddities...

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php? ... 5&start=15


Graf Zepplin getting repairs over the North Atlantic




































Lindbergh in a glider


Lindbergh not gliding too well. He prangs his Lockheed Sirius in the Yangstse River China with Anne aboard

Thanks John that's some great stuff. I used the photo of hand popping the Cub in flight in my master's thesis a few months back.

But I have to say, as someone afraid of heights...all I can think of that first photo is NOPE

-Brandon

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First photo: Stunning. very unusual perspective.

Cub in flight photo: photoshopped

Wrecked airplane with nose in the dirt: I have no idea.

Second to last: (Handley Page Heyfords), looks like some fella was killed.

Outstanding collection. Thanks for posting.

I just posted some of the pics from the link. There are many more...some obvious, some not so. It will keep you busy looking at them.

Here's a 2-3-2 config


Another pic of the mishap aircraft

The inflight Cub propping was a common airshow routine.

The wreck was:
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Burnelli RB-1 (Burnelli)

RB-1 aka Remington-Burnelli 1920 = 27pCB; two 420hp Liberty 12; span: 74'0" length: 42'0" v: 105/90/45 range: 760. Cabin width: 14'7" length: 16'0". First airfoil-shaped "lifting body" fuselage with motors mounted side-by-side in the nose. POP: 1, crashed during testing because of inadequate tail control. Burnelli applied for a patent on his all-wing design on 1/6/21, but it wasn't until 5/13/30 that he was finally issued US patent #1,758,498.
Burnelli RB-2 (Paul Matt via Avn Heritage)
Burnelli RB-2 Nose close-up (John Diele coll)

RB-2 Freighter aka Remington-Burnelli 1923 = RB-1 with improved control surfaces; two 650hp Galloway Atlantics; span: 80'0" length: 46'0" load: 6700# v: 110/90/x. Reportedly repowered with 600hp Rolls-Royce Condors. Gross wt: nearly 9 tons, empty wt: 5 tons! Corrugated metal construction with dural skin replacing fabric covering; 18' x 14' passenger cabin accommodated 25 with standing headroom. Convertible to a crew of three and 6000# freight. When Remington dropped out in 1924, operations continued as Garvan-Burnelli. POP: 1.
From Aerofiles:
http://www.aerofiles.com/aircraft.html

The one pictured is the RB-2