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Inside old Detroit car factories and related.
source: Detroit’s automotive history unfolds in incredible vintage photos that span decades
below. inside the mega-Detroit Packard plant in 1938 .. back when autofactories built everything. Here, seats.
below. Chrysler Lynch Road, 1940 Plymouths. Nearly 11,000 of Chrysler's total 56,000 employees worked at Lynch Rd in 1940
below, Lynch Rd plant 1979
below, Stamping 1940 GM cars in a Pontiac plant.
below. Front entrance to Chrysler Jefferson Avenue Plant. year unknown. 12200 East Jefferson, Detroit
Below, 1953, Chrysler Tank plant in Warren, MI. Tank is the M47 "Patton".
Below. late 1960's first woman (Joan Klatil) designer GM hired, at Cadillac.
below. Last Dodge Aspen, a 1980 MY, to leave Dodge Main in Hamtramck
Below, September 1981. right, last big Poncho (a Bonneville) GM built in Pontiac [since 1927], middle car a 1957 Pontiac Star Chief, and the left one a 1948 Pontiac Silver Streak. All torn down now.
source: Detroit’s automotive history unfolds in incredible vintage photos that span decades
below. inside the mega-Detroit Packard plant in 1938 .. back when autofactories built everything. Here, seats.
below. Chrysler Lynch Road, 1940 Plymouths. Nearly 11,000 of Chrysler's total 56,000 employees worked at Lynch Rd in 1940
below, Lynch Rd plant 1979
below, Stamping 1940 GM cars in a Pontiac plant.
below. Front entrance to Chrysler Jefferson Avenue Plant. year unknown. 12200 East Jefferson, Detroit
Below, 1953, Chrysler Tank plant in Warren, MI. Tank is the M47 "Patton".
Below. late 1960's first woman (Joan Klatil) designer GM hired, at Cadillac.
below. Last Dodge Aspen, a 1980 MY, to leave Dodge Main in Hamtramck
Below, September 1981. right, last big Poncho (a Bonneville) GM built in Pontiac [since 1927], middle car a 1957 Pontiac Star Chief, and the left one a 1948 Pontiac Silver Streak. All torn down now.
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Moving the "sphincter exercise video" to here from Took a cool pic?
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The "crab-leg" landing.
B-52's never had this issue because of the crosswind crab system for crosswind landings
I never got tired watching them test this as they taxied after I launched one
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Amazing aircraft. I've never seen one up close, but when I was a kid living in middle of nowhere southern Tier New York, it was fun watching the planes fly over, as we were near a VOR. B52 was easy to identify by the 8 contrails.
i'll be dammed. Starting about 2:10 till the end a couple mins. later.
now that;s a "crabwalk" ... hundreds of feet it looks like, ALL wheels down, slowing (brakes, chute, full flaps, etc.) the whole time, then "steering(?)" out of it to correct the starboard yaw. That's the way it looked to me
here's the real story: swiveling landing gear, unique among all aircraft. engineered in.. source: Watch This B-52 'Crabwalk' Down The Runway In A Heavy Crosswind
"Because of the B-52’s massive side surface area and low-slung wing, crosswind landings are especially challenging. With this issue in mind, Boeing engineers built the B-52’s main tandem landing gear with a genius feature — they swivel. The details of this feature were kept secret for years after the Stratofortress’s introduction into service.
The pilot simply dials in the runway’s heading via a rotary dial in the cockpit and the gear will remain properly aligned with a selected compass heading throughout the jet’s approach. This way the pilot can fly the approach crabbed into the wind, with its wings level, all the way down to touchdown and rollout.
This capability is especially relevant as the B-52’s wingtips and outrigger landing gear are far from the fuselage’s centerline and hang nearly as low as the jet’s lower fuselage edge. Just a couple of degrees of roll to the left or to the right could result in a wing dipping multiple feet. As a result, using ailerons to sideslip or even de-crab the jet before touchdown could end in a wing-strike catastrophe.
Thus B-52 pilots fly intensely crabbed crosswind approaches, sometimes looking out the cockpit’s side windows at the runway, all the way through touchdown and rollout."
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The Six-Engine B-29: America’s Secret Superbomber
Recently declassified documents reveal a little-known World War II project: a six-engine B-29 variant, the "XB-29T Super Superfortress." This bomber was designed for direct strategic bombing missions from the U.S. mainland, eliminating the need for vulnerable Pacific island bases.
By late 1944, military planners sought ultra-long-range capabilities. Boeing proposed adding two extra Wright R-3350 engines to a stretched B-29, increasing thrust, range, and bomb load. The design included:
Six engines generating 18,000 horsepower
Extended fuselage for added fuel
Projected non-stop missions to Japan with aerial refueling
Wind tunnel tests revealed aerodynamic and fuel consumption challenges. With Japan’s surrender in 1945, the project was scrapped. The test airframe was dismantled, and official records remained classified for decades.
Some believe the XB-29T influenced Cold War bombers like the B-36, while others see it as an ambitious yet impractical experiment. Regardless, this secret bomber remains an April Fool's post
Sorry about the day late post ;^)
