And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Too fuzzy to read it but I think the tail number on the back one is N575L. I’ve wrenched on that Widgeon. Owned by the guy who used to own the airline I worked for.
Closer Blue/Yellow plane is Grumman Goose, a somewhat larger 8-place plane. The radial engines and wing-floats that swing up looking like tip-tanks are key features, along with the rounder general profiles.
Further plane is the Grumman Widgeon, the 4-place smaller plane with what appears to be possibly the upgraded Super Widgeon conversion with Continental O-470Bs rather than the original Ranger L-440-5s.
Grumman also built the 12 place Mallard (propellers end up behind the cockpit whether radial or other engines, and being tricycle gear the exposed main gear tires nest much further back in the sides of the Mallard) and the bigger 14-16 place Albatross (tires nest higher than any of the other Grummans).
Would love to have a Widgeon. Great planes, totally go everywhere with them.
ReplyDeleteToo fuzzy to read it but I think the tail number on the back one is N575L. I’ve wrenched on that Widgeon. Owned by the guy who used to own the airline I worked for.
ReplyDeleteHas the far one been converted to turbine?
ReplyDeleteUsed to fly the Goose from St. Croix to St. Thomas way back when....I know they had the one with the radials...
ReplyDeleteUsed to watch a (green) Goose at Adak, Alaska. It served the Aleut communities on some other Aleutian islands. That was '82-84.
DeleteCloser Blue/Yellow plane is Grumman Goose, a somewhat larger 8-place plane. The radial engines and wing-floats that swing up looking like tip-tanks are key features, along with the rounder general profiles.
ReplyDeleteFurther plane is the Grumman Widgeon, the 4-place smaller plane with what appears to be possibly the upgraded Super Widgeon conversion with Continental O-470Bs rather than the original Ranger L-440-5s.
Grumman also built the 12 place Mallard (propellers end up behind the cockpit whether radial or other engines, and being tricycle gear the exposed main gear tires nest much further back in the sides of the Mallard) and the bigger 14-16 place Albatross (tires nest higher than any of the other Grummans).
I had never heard of the Mallard.
ReplyDeleteThere are some really neat photos of the triphibian version at
ReplyDeletehttps://www.silverhawkauthor.com/post/canadian-warplanes-5-grumman-csr-110-albatross