Museum of Flight in Seattle...........

[JohnB]

As nice as it is that they have a 787, I'd really prefer for them to get a DC-7.

[makin' boost]

Give me an easy tutorial, on how to post photos to the forum and I'll post them.

1-You can become a subscriber. When you do you can post photos directly to the WIX.
2- Upload the pictures to Facebook, Flicker, Photo Bucket and then link them to the WIX.
3-Send them to me warbirdnerd AT Hotmail.com and I will post them for you.

Slight opportunistic deviation....

Ideally.....many new website updates and upgrades these days allow the members to upload photo's directly from their device (cell, laptop, etc) versus having to use a 3rd party host like Photobucket. Maybe WIX will do that with the next upgrade???? (hint implied )

Not being a big fan of Facebook, Flicker and or Photobucket, posting photos from a file in my laptop via my digital camera would be my preference.
Will becoming a subscriber to WIX allow me to post as I described ?

No DC-7 on site but there is a DC-2 (3)? in TWA livery adjacent to the Museum.

[JohnB]

I have a photo of that DC-2 when it was stlil flying for Johnson Air Service out of Missoula in the early 70s..the next time I saw it was at the Santa Monica museum.

I do hope some museum saves an airline configured DC-7. Pima has a firebomber out back on loan from the USFS, it looks pretty bad.

[makin' boost]

The last DC-7 - Big Doug, that I saw, at BFI, was a Reeves Alaskan ? fuel hauler, many moons ago.

[JimH]

Here we go...picture heavy. Made it over this morning.


P-26 on loan from the San Diego Aerospace Museum for the Boeing anniversary


beautiful Stinson





The pavilion is coming along nicely...the B-17 is already in place.

[JimH]

some more...

[JimH]

a few more...

the ghost...hopefully this gets finished




Part of the Will Rogers Orion

[Pat Carry]

Excellent photos, thanks

[p51]

I really need to get up there to see that Peashooter. Any idea how long it'll be there?

[APG85]

Was that a seat from Wiley Post's plane that he and Will Rogers died in? Details please...

[JimH]

Jim

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[JohnB]

I've always read that the Post/Rogers Lockheed was burned on site and the only thing salvaged was the engine.

[tulsaboy]

There are small pieces of the airplane at the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, OK. I believe that at least one of the N-number sets on the side of the tail was salvaged and is on display somewhere in Alaska near the crash site at a restaurant. I've seen a photo of it floating around. If I remember correctly, Mrs. Post was asked what she wanted done with the airplane and she just wanted it destroyed. Based on the photos I've seen there was a lot of it left. Plenty to rebuild based on what people do now. Shame it wasn't hauled off somewhere and just stored.
kevin

Edit:
Here is a link to a photo (you have to scroll about halfway down) taken by a tourist in Barrow, Alaska, that shows some of the numbers cut off of the airplane.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=58813&page=4

[p51]

I must have walked by that plenty of times and never noticed that it was the from that plane...

There sure was plenty left over, after the crash:

[JohnB]

If you read about early Lockheeds, you'll learn that the Orion (fuselage) Explorer (wing) was extremely nose heavy with a 550hp engine, and three bladed prop. Add to that the weight of floats and it was a marginal aircraft, even for someone as talented as Rogers. When the engine quit at low altitude....

My point is, it's probably better that no one tried to rebuild it.

I'd love to see an Orion at the NASM, the sole survivor is in the Swiss museum and is the one piece of America's aviation history I'd like to see back.
It's a great example of the rare single engine airlines that where briefly popular with airlines.