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.
That'd be my guess. 3 throttles, 3 mixtures, no prop control so fixed pitch props, old style NC registration number. No prop out the windshield but it may be horizontal. Updated radios & transponder in the console & add on mic buttons on the yoke wheels....
I paid the extra money to ride right front seat in that very aircraft at Port Clinton a few years ago and it was worth every penny. I asked the pilot how many people on the planet were still type rated in those anymore and he said between 25 and 30 and he knew most of them personally. A very small community indeed.
Ford TriMotor?
ReplyDeleteThat'd be my guess. 3 throttles, 3 mixtures, no prop control so fixed pitch props, old style NC registration number. No prop out the windshield but it may be horizontal. Updated radios & transponder in the console & add on mic buttons on the yoke wheels....
DeleteIt is the Ford Trimotor NC9645 that is leased to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association).
ReplyDeleteI paid the extra money to ride right front seat in that very aircraft at Port Clinton a few years ago and it was worth every penny. I asked the pilot how many people on the planet were still type rated in those anymore and he said between 25 and 30 and he knew most of them personally. A very small community indeed.
DeleteSo what are the three T-handles at the bottom center of the photo?
ReplyDeleteNow that is a really cool photo!
ReplyDeletethere was one that use to fly passengers over the Grand Canyon in the 70's out of Vegas.
ReplyDeletei was lucky enough to make the trip in 76,it was loud.