Those Magnificent Flying Machines (Explore)
What is it about an old airplane that makes old pilots nostalgic about the old days of flying; the open cockpit, leather helmet, silk scarf, a wooden propeller, and the smell of mother earth as the open-air rushed by you in it's slipstream?
In those days the usual means of navigation was using a road map, and your map was usually a highway map that showed you where you wanted to go. In the old days of flying many small towns across the United States had the name of their city written on buildings to help guide pilots safely across the skies. Yes, airplanes may not have been as reliable in those days, perhaps more engine failures, no radio communication equipment, but there's nothing like the sound of that deep throaty roar of a radial engine in front of you. Those were the days when every flight, was an adventure in itself.
U.S. Army PT-17 Bi-wing aircraft.
Those Magnificent Flying Machines (Explore)
What is it about an old airplane that makes old pilots nostalgic about the old days of flying; the open cockpit, leather helmet, silk scarf, a wooden propeller, and the smell of mother earth as the open-air rushed by you in it's slipstream?
In those days the usual means of navigation was using a road map, and your map was usually a highway map that showed you where you wanted to go. In the old days of flying many small towns across the United States had the name of their city written on buildings to help guide pilots safely across the skies. Yes, airplanes may not have been as reliable in those days, perhaps more engine failures, no radio communication equipment, but there's nothing like the sound of that deep throaty roar of a radial engine in front of you. Those were the days when every flight, was an adventure in itself.
U.S. Army PT-17 Bi-wing aircraft.