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Verkehrsbetriebe Gschwindl Citaro 2 Euro 6 Wagen 6409 als Linie 80A nach Neu Marx in der Kreuzung Erdbergstraße/Würtzlerstraße.
Oldtimer | Traktor
Massenheimer Oldtimertreffen
für Autos, Motorräder und Traktoren 2015
Bad Vilbel - Massenheim
The Museum of Flight, Seattle.
Manufacturer: Boeing
First flight: July 27, 1928
Introduction: September 20, 1928 with Boeing Air Transport
Retired: 1934
Primary user: Boeing Air Transport
Number built: 16
Model 80A - improved aerodynamics and Pratt & Whitney Hornet engines (10 built)
Unit cost: $75,000 (Model 80A
Crew: Three
Capacity: 18 passengers
Payload: 898 lb cargo (408 kg)
Length: 56 ft 6 in (17.22 m)
Wingspan: 80 ft 0 in (24.39 m)
Height: 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m)
Wing area: 1,220 sq ft (113.4 m²)
Airfoil: Boeing N-22
Empty weight: 10,582 lb (4,810 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 17,500 lb (7,940 kg)
Powerplant: 3 × Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet air-cooled radials, 525 hp (392 kW) each
Maximum speed: 138 mph (120 knots, 222 km/h)
Cruise speed: 125 mph (109 knots, 201 km/h)
Stall speed: 55 mph [16] (48 knots, 89 km/h)
Range: 460 mi (400 nmi, 741 km)
Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,270 m)
Rate of climb: 900 ft/min (4.6 m/s)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_80
"Pioneer Pullman of the Air"
Until the mid-1920s, American commercial airplanes were built for mail, not people.
Boeing's Model 80, along with the Ford and Fokker tri-Motors, were a new breed of passenger aircraft.
The 80 first flew in August 1928 and was working along Boeing Air Transport's route two weeks later.
The 12-passenger Model 80 and the more-powerful 18-passenger 80A (re-designated 80A-1s when the tail surfaces were modified in 1930) stayed in service until 1933, when replaced by the all-metal Boeing Model 247.
The Museum's Model 80A-1, equipped with three Pratt & Whitney 525-horsepower "Hornet" engines, was retired from service with United in 1934.
In 1941, it became a cargo aircraft with a construction firm in Alaska. To carry large equipment, including a massive 11,000-pound (4,950 kg) boiler, a cargo door was cut into the plane's side. After the war, the 80 was stored and then discarded.
It was recovered from a dump in 1960 and eventually brought to Seattle for restoration. It is the only surviving example of the Boeing Model 80 series.
Stewardesses
In 1930, Miss Ellen Church, a student pilot and registered nurse, convinced Boeing management to hire female cabin attendants for their Model 80 flights.
Until then, it had been the co-pilot's duty to pass out box lunches, serve coffee, and tend to the passenger's needs.
Church reasoned that the sight of women working aboard the Boeing 80s would alleviate the passenger's fear of air travel. She and seven others, all nurses, became America's first stewardesses. Serving on a trial basis, they were very popular and became a permanent part of American commercial aviation.
The Luxury
A passenger flying in Boeing's earlier Model 40 was in for an uncomfortable trip. The 40 was designed for mail -- people were secondary, packed like sardines into the cold and noisy fuselage.
The advent of the Model 80 brought some comfort to travel.
The 80A had room for 18, a heated cabin, and leather seats. There was individual reading lights and the lavatory featured hot and cold running water.
Although the 80 had a luxurious interior, flying was tough by today's standards: the cabin wasn't pressurized, engine noise made conversation difficult, and despite heaters, the cabin was sometimes very cold.
Crosville's later Leyland vans; Minivan, Metro and Marinas (and some Sherpas) retained the standard BL dark green paint.
"Four-story sandstone block building in a corner location with gables, a two-story, three-sided floor bay window and a three-story corner choir with an onion dome, rich in Neo-Renaissance forms, marked “1894.”
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Kansas City-bound Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad Texas Special passenger train heads northward from Austin, Texas, in April 1964. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Lamb-02-040-02
The BTR-80A aka the GAZ-59034, entered production in 1994 as an improved model the original vehicle. The focus was on an increase in lethality. The original smaller turret with its 14.5mm Heavy Machine Gun was replaced with a new BPPU turret, that had day and night sights. It had a new main gun which was a 30mm dual feed chain gun capable of firing HE-FRAG and AP-T rounds as well as a coaxial 7.62mm Machine Gun. Vehicle is armed with externally mounted 30-mm cannon and coaxial 7.62-mm machine gun. This dual-fed cannon uses HE-FRAG and AP-T rounds. The vehicles armour was standard steel and thick enough to offer protection against 12.7mm rounds over the frontal arc and all round protection again 7.62mm MG fire. The crew are protected by an NBC system.
The BTR-70 had not fixed the design faults of the BTR-60. The BTR-80 however did address them and resolve them, being the maintenance of the engine and automotive train, the elevation of the main gun in the turret and finally the exits from the troop compartment. Fighting in Afghanistan had shown the lack of elevation in the main gun as it couldn't fire at targets on the many hills, so was increased to 60°. The use of two engines was dropped in favour of one single diesel, this simplified the automotive train and made maintenance easier. The final design problem of troop disembarking was the introduction of a much larger opening of the old hatches with a clam style door. The top opened outwards and the bottom dropped down to form a step between the 2nd and 3rd tyres so the troops could exit with speed, avoid being crushed by the wheels by stepping out and allowed the BTR-80 to continue moving whilst troops were disembarking
Specifications:
Weight: 13.6 tonnes
Length: 7.65 m
Width: 2.90 m
Height: 2.35 m
Crew: 3 (+8 passengers)
Armour: Classified
Engine: 260hp diesel KamAZ-7403
Power/weight: 19 hp/tonne
Suspension: wheeled 8×8
Operational range: 600 km
Speed: 80 km/h (swim 9 km/
Coach seen at the Gloucester Minibuses site,Bristol Road,Gloucester. I believe this is an ex-Alex Coaches vehicle - 7.12.20.
This is my entry for the Cold war armor category.
The BTR-80A is a Russian 8x8 APCit is an improved variant of the original BTR-80. These vehicles entered service in the early 1980's and the improved versions were seen in the late 80's to early 90's. over the original BTR-80 the BTR-80A has improved horsepower and a different turret, with an externally mounted 30mm cannon and 12.7 mm machine gun. The vehicle is fully amphibious, and has a crew of three and can carry seven fully armed soldiers.
Seen here at Liverpool John Lennon Airport is Arriva Merseyside Wright Gemini 2 bodied Volvo B5LH with the registration of KX13 AVJ and fleet number of 7003, pictured before working service 80A to Liverpool City Centre.
This bus is a recent transfer from Arriva Southern Counties to Arriva Merseyside's Speke depot. 19/7/17