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1929 Fokker F-32 Dbl. Prop Airplane (pic)

pogybatepogybate Member Posts: 3,150
edited March 2013 in General Discussion
This is a rare pic of an early University Airlines 1929 Fokker F-32 dbl. prop loading for take-off. Crewmen keep passengers away from spinning props as the pilot keeps the engines running. State of the art for the day.

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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cool.... Thanks!
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  • machine gun moranmachine gun moran Member Posts: 5,198
    edited November -1
    When airplanes, were airplanes. There is nothing that has the class of those, or of the Curtiss Condors, or of the Fords, or...

    The modern stuff just doesn't have 'it'.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thought I had seen most of the old planes. That one is new to me thanks.

    This is the one I remember of theirs.

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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    Thought I had seen most of the old planes. That one is new to me thanks.

    This is the one I remember of theirs.

    fokkerfvii3m_800.jpg


    Ford Tri-Motor?
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I flew in the Ford Tri Motor at Port Clinton OHIO what a thrill
    Struts unloaded at about 15 MPH on rollout oil temp gage on Engine
    nacelle Looked like a trailways bus steering wheel on a landscape
    timber control stick. Wicker seats and only one door next to the very tail.
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  • 427cobra289427cobra289 Member Posts: 762 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Very cool! [8D] Both planes! [8D]

    That first one is an oldie and she's a beauty too, sort of the Mother-Fokker if you will.
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  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    Those are beautiful planes. Thanks for shareing.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is what I was trying to show.

    fokker-trimotor-america-feb-1970-aam-1200px.jpg
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,499 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of the old Tri Motors use to fly every year at Auburn, In during the Kruse car auction and take folks for rides. I never went up in that thing.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    How is it that those airliners don't display "N" numbers?
    Any American aircraft displays "N" numbers...


    My step-dads Piper Cherokee D was N57132L.
    They called us "32-Lema" from the airports we flew over..
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pogybate
    This is a rare pic of an early University Airlines 1929 Fokker F-32 dbl. prop loading for take-off. Crewmen keep passengers away from spinning props as the pilot keeps the engines running. State of the art for the day.

    [img][/img]SHORPY_17634u_zps67ca0307.jpg

    I would call that a "PUSH-PULL"...
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,471 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was lucky enough to get a short ride in this exact plane, Martin Caidin's "Iron Annie" when he owned it in Florida. It is a German JU-52 tri-motor, and is still flying back in Germany. It's the oldest one still flying.

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    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,706 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It probably got there on time too.
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • pogybatepogybate Member Posts: 3,150
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    quote:Originally posted by pogybate
    This is a rare pic of an early University Airlines 1929 Fokker F-32 dbl. prop loading for take-off. Crewmen keep passengers away from spinning props as the pilot keeps the engines running. State of the art for the day.

    [img][/img]SHORPY_17634u_zps67ca0307.jpg

    I would call that a "PUSH-PULL"...

    Actually it was then called a Back to Back, The term push-pull came later.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,670 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great pic and story. The Krauts were leaders in aviation, as they were in most other areas of technology.

    Man I would pay a thousand bucks to get in the time machine and take a trip in that old German plane.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow. The F32 was so big it had a dance floor upstairs.

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  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pogybate
    This is a rare pic of an early University Airlines 1929 Fokker F-32 dbl. prop loading for take-off. Crewmen keep passengers away from spinning props as the pilot keeps the engines running. State of the art for the day.

    [img][/img]SHORPY_17634u_zps67ca0307.jpg


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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    My God..That THe Mother of ALL Fokkers [?][?]
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