#trimotor

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A 1929 Tri-Motor departs Phoenix Deer Valley with passengers for a scenic flight

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Trimotor aircraft of the Air France on a vintage postcard

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Flight Simulator 2020 - Trimotor Tin Goose, Indonesian Temple, Pura Ulun...

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Amelia Earhart christens a TAT Ford Trimotor, "The City of New York," at Pennsylvania Station, July 7, 1929. Watching is Police Commissioner Grover Whalen (left). In keeping with Prohibition, the bottle contained Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale. Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), later TWA, was inaugurating its first transcontinental air passenger services from coast to coast.

Photo: FPG/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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Well safe-ish.

The Business Week - December 15th 1929

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Happy Cow Milked on an Airplane Day!

On February 16, 1930, a cow by the name of Nellie Jay aka was milked aboard a Ford Trimotor during a flight from Bismark, MO to St. Louis. Later given the nickname “Sky Queen,” she produced 24 gallons of milk.

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Ford TriMotor over Wrigley Field 1930's

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Ford Trimotor

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Friends, acquaintances, and assorted nerds, please allow me to put on my Top Gun hat and rant for a moment!

This plane is called a Ford Trimotor. (Some of you out there might recognize it from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) It’s a small passenger plane, would have been used for local flights, and can fit around 8 people plus the pilots.

So what does this have to do with Top Gun?

Well, this plane has another name. A nickname really. It was called the Tin Goose.

The TIN fucking GOOSE.

This is not a huge plane, and it’s a decently old plane, and you can 100% BET YOUR ASS that Maverick would have one of the puppies in his hangar. Based on the name alone! I will not stand for anything else.

I understand that they use the Mustang in TGM cause it’s Tom Cruise’s actual plane and all that, but honestly. Honestly.

Peter Maverick Mitchell would own a Tin Goose and that is a hill I am willing to die on.

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1928 Tri-Motor "City of Wichata" at Goodyear Airport

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1936 Stinson Model A Trimotor.

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Liberty Aviation Museum 5AT-B TriMotor along the Chicago shoreline

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95 years ago... Aviatrix Amelia Earhart In 1928, aviatrix Amelia Mary Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. As a passenger she kept the flight log onboard a Fokker Trimotor from Newfoundland USA to South Wales GB, a flight lasting 20 hours and 40 minutes. In 1932, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean, piloting a single engine Lockheed Vega 5B. She flew from Newfoundland to Culmore in Northern Ireland, a solo flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes! On both flights, Earhart relied on a white dial two-register Longines single pusher pilot chronograph. In 2010, this (still running) historic Longines chronograph was flown in space onboard the International Space Station by female NASA astronaut Shannon walker spending 163 days 7 hours in space! An amazing initiative by the " Ninety-Nines " international organization of women pilots. (Scan: MoonwatchUniverse) (Photo: collectspace.com)

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1934 Classics at the Air Terminal - Stan Stokes

Stan Stokes, in his painting, 1934 American Classics, beautifully portrays a Hollywood movie star and her pet dog embarking on a chartered Ford Trimotor from the Grand Central Air Terminal (owned and operated by Curtis-Wright) in California. Probably bound for a weekend visit to San Simeon, the palatial retreat of the publishing magnate, William Randolph Hearst, the trip to San Luis Obispo will take only ninety minutes. The early afternoon rains have left puddles on the tarmac, but fair skies have returned to the San Gabriel mountains, and the trip should be a smooth one. During the Great Depression the Packard Company introduced some of its most stunning and high performance automobiles. The 1934 Packard LeBaron Speedster, pictured in the painting, was one such machine. Costing nearly $8,000 the Packard LeBaron Speedster was about two to three times the price of a nice three bedroom house. Only the very wealthy could afford such luxuries during the Depression. Note that the Speedsters fenders are reminiscent of the wheel covers on racing planes during the era of the Thompson Trophy Air Races. The Speedster was powered by a 160 HP V-12 engine which displaced 445 cubic inches. Around this time it is believed that among the Hollywood notables that owned Packard Speedsters were both Clark Gable and Douglas Fairbanks. The Ford Trimotor was introduced in 1926 and between 1926 and 1933 Ford produced approximately 200 of these capable aircraft. Ford Trimotors remained in service long after they were made technically obsolete by more modern aircraft, and it is reputed that one aircraft built in 1928 was still in regular service as late as 1970. Admiral Byrd utilized a 4-AT version of the Trimotor for his 1929 Antarctic expedition. The Ford Trimotor played an important role in introducing commercial aviation to the general public during the years of the Great Depression. The basic model carried eleven passengers and a crew of two, had a cruising speed of 107 MPH, an operational ceiling of 16,500 feet, and a range of 570 miles. Due to its corrugated metal exterior skin the Trimotor was affectionately known as the Tin Goose. The Tin Goose had a wingspan of nearly 78 feet, and was fifty feet in length. In 1930 Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) began the first coast-to-coast commercial service utilizing Ford Trimotors. The trip took only thirty-six hours, if the weather was cooperative

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TriMotor. The Flying Hutchinsons.  In 1931, aviator, Col. George R. Hutchinson, with his wife, Blanche, their daughters Kathryn and Janet Lee and their pet lion cub mascot, Governor, made headlines when they flew to every of the 48 state capitals in the United States. Pictured here with a dog and chimp - no lion!