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It seems the Perkin-Elmer Satellite Periscope was not manufactured in large quantities...
Inside the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, in which John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Seriously, this thing was in space. Coolness.
Comparying serial dongle from Adafruit.com on the left and on hte right soldered by me without PCB. And it's working!
Get project details:
About serial LCD kit: www.buildcircuit.com/serial-lcd-do-it-yourselfdiy-kit/
Assembly: www.buildcircuit.com/how-to-assemble-serial-lcd-kit/
Basically all that's been done to this picture is scratch overlay, a bloody nose, and demonic blacked out eyes with yellow irises.
Serial number: 41245
Line Number: 4766
First flight date: 20/01/2014
Engines 2 x CFMI CFM56-7B26
B-1921 28/01/2014 China Southern Airlines
Plane information:
Serial number: 2394 LN:394
First flight date: 26.4.2002
Delivery date to Blue1: 24.11.2003 (Named: Pielinen, lsd from BAES)
Taken at Helsinki-Vantaa airport (EFHK) 12.10.2008.
USAAF Serial: 39-0057
US Civil Registration: N4000B
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_B-23_Dragon
The Douglas B-23 Dragon is an American twin-engined bomber developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company as a successor to (and a refinement of) the B-18 Bolo.
Douglas proposed a number of modifications designed to improve the performance of the B-18. Initially considered a redesign, the XB-22 featured 1,600 hp Wright R-2600-1 Twin Cyclone radial engines. The complete B-18 redesign was considered promising enough by the USAAC to alter the original contract to produce the last 38 B-18As ordered under Contract AC9977 as the B-23. The design incorporated a larger wingspan with a wing design very similar to that of the DC-3, a fully retractable undercarriage, and improved defensive armament. The B-23 was the first operational American bomber equipped with a glazed tail gun position. The tail gun was a .50 calibre (12.7 mm) machine gun, which was fired from the prone position by a gunner using a telescopic sight.
The first B-23 flew on July 27, 1939 with the production series of 38 B-23s manufactured between July 1939 and September 1940.
While significantly faster and better armed than the B-18, the B-23 was not comparable to newer medium bombers like the North American B-25 Mitchell and Martin B-26 Marauder. For this reason, the 38 B-23s built were never used in combat overseas, although for a brief period they were employed as patrol aircraft stationed on the west coast of the United States. The B-23s were primarily relegated to training duties, although 18 of them were later converted as transports and redesignated UC-67.
The B-23 also served as a testbed for new engines and systems. For example, one was used for turbosupercharger development by General Electric at Schenectady, New York.
After World War II, many examples were used as executive transports, with appropriate internal modifications, and as a result a large number have survived. With its wartime experience with the type, GE bought and used five of them. Howard Hughes (among others) used converted B-23s as personal aircraft.
Photo by Eric Friedebach