Wednesday, July 16, 2008

the XF-11



oh yeah, and that would be Howard Hughes behind the wheel, er, stick, er, I don't know what the XF-11 had...

4 comments:

  1. Dave, you need to go to Oshkosh. I went for several years and was the prez of the local EAA chapter.
    Chad also went to Oshkosh to the Air Academy for 2 years.

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  2. Also look up an AN2 Antunov. My
    1st hour logged was behind 1 of these.

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  3. http://digital.library.unlv.edu/hughes/photos/3/sm_h-111.jpg

    the plane that hughes wrecked- supposed to be a aerial reconnaissance plane but it was slow at low altitudes and just overall sucked. i think it had a wheel, not a stick. hell you would know better than me.

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  4. Hell yeah, contra-rotating propellers! A single piston engine driving two propellers in opposite rotation.

    RECIPS RULE!

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