Interesting Aircraft Pics

[mongrol]

Thought I'd post these to get my mind off quading for an hour or so.

Pics are from Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville Oregon and are a few of the Spruce Goose, SR71 Blackbird, Gemini Rocket Engine, and others.

[chevnut]

Mongrol your pictures rock no matter what they are:cheers:

[bark]

thats sweet, just watched the aviator the other day, sure would like to see the spruce goose in person.


Thanks

[jackhammer]

Awesome pics! One of the few things cooler than ATV'n is airplanes, in my opinion.

[Outlaw]

Mongrol your pictures rock no matter what they are:cheers:

>>>He's just an interesting individual.........very entertaining,.......knowledgeable.

[punch]

thanks for the pictures buddy!! once again something that i would not ever get a chance to see otherwise...:cheers: :cheers:

[BushBabe(1984)]

Thought I'd post these to get my mind off quading for an hour or so.

Pics are from Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville Oregon and are a few of the Spruce Goose, SR71 Blackbird, Gemini Rocket Engine, and others.

sweet pics!!

Hey does anyone know how to take pics and make them smaller so the website will accept them????

[LeCaptain]

sweet pics!!

Hey does anyone know how to take pics and make them smaller so the website will accept them????

Set you camera to take a lower quality image or you can just crop out the part of the picture you want everyone to see.

[darkstar]

sweet pics!!

Hey does anyone know how to take pics and make them smaller so the website will accept them????

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

download powertoys. after install click the pic you want to downsize, then right click after that the look for the resize link.

i take pics at 10 mp's and have no probs...

[x4332]

That spruge goose is massive, I thought they blew it up a bit in the movie, but looking at those pics, even the sr71 blackbird is big, but the goose dwarfs it hardcore. just aswsome

[mongrol]

I've got a couple pics of a Martin Mars water bomber that is stationed on Vancouver Island. Took pics near Nelson BC last yr during fire season. It is as big as the Goose, but has 4 less engines. I'll try to resize them cause they are well worth seeing. The used it last yr in California near Lake Elsinore and made short work of a couple of fires there.

[mongrol]

Anyone know how to downsize photos in Vista?

[mongrol]

I think this may have done it. This is the Martin Mars.

[x4332]

Is it as big as the goose, looks smaller compared to the semi in the back, jmo.

[x4332]

Just a few differences, the Martin Mars is an amazing flying boat in it's own right.

Martin Mars: Wingspan - 200 feet, prop diameter - 15 feet 2 inches, gross weight - 162000 pounds, height - 48 feet, length - 120 feet

Spruce Goose: 319 feet 11 inches, prop diameter - 17 feet, gross weight - 300000 pounds, height - 79 feet 4 inches, length - 218 feet 8 inches

simply amazing. I think their is a russian plane that is massive, I will do some digging in my spare time.

[mongrol]

From what I've read, its within 10% of the fuselage (body) size of the Goose. Big diff is apparently in the wing span. If you expand the photo, you will see there are actually 2 semi's in the background, which may diminish the apparent size of the aircraft.

When I got closer on my sea doo, it was apparent that the sponsons (pontoons) on the wing tips were 3 times the length of the sea doo or about 25' long.

[Wolf]

Couple more pics of the Mars which give some scale of the size:

[mongrol]

Just a few differences, the Martin Mars is an amazing flying boat in it's own right.

Martin Mars: Wingspan - 200 feet, prop diameter - 15 feet 2 inches, gross weight - 162000 pounds, height - 48 feet, length - 120 feet

Spruce Goose: 319 feet 11 inches, prop diameter - 17 feet, gross weight - 300000 pounds, height - 79 feet 4 inches, length - 218 feet 8 inches

simply amazing. I think their is a russian plane that is massive, I will do some digging in my spare time.

Thanks for the actual sizes, I've looked for these comparisons for a while.

[mongrol]

Wolf, I take it these shots of yours came from your relative when it was in Nelson?

[Wolf]

Nope, just ones I found on their website.
Would love to see one of those up close though, youtube has some videos if your interested.
Now I think I'm gonna have to drag my kids back to the aviation museum here again !! LOL

[x4332]

I found it, the Antonov AN-225
Wingspan - 290 Feet, Length - 275 feet 7 inches, Height - 59 feet 8.5 inches, Six ZMKB Progress Lotarev D-18T turbofans each producing 51,590 lb. of thrust.... I cant even imagine the power coming out of those engines (wind speed)

[mongrol]

Yah, the Anatov used to come into Calgary on a regular basis when some oil company was hauling supplys to the Ukraine. Couldn't believe the number of tires on it. Amazing.

Wolf, thanks for pointing me to Youtube for vids of the Mars working. Wow!

[boakley]

I found it, the Antonov AN-225
Wingspan - 290 Feet, Length - 275 feet 7 inches, Height - 59 feet 8.5 inches, Six ZMKB Progress Lotarev D-18T turbofans each producing 51,590 lb. of thrust.... I cant even imagine the power coming out of those engines (wind speed)

gross weight at take off about 640 tonnes. Compared to the 747-400 cargo which is one of the most common heavy lift cargo planes at 378 tonnes the Антонов Ан-225 Мрія is a monster at about 70% more cargo.

[trail hoss]

Talking About Flying We Had An Interesting Concrete Pour Today We Had To Cap Mine Shafts Near Bissett Mb Take A Look At These Pics On How We Did It . It Costs Big $$ Aprox $3000.00 Per Hour For This Baby

[x4332]

were you flying the helicopter.

[sled_head_440]

Is that Provincial Helicopters doing the heli lfts with a 205 jet ranger? If so who was flying John or Paul?

[trail hoss]

no not me chopper is from some company at st andrews airport

[sled_head_440]

Those are beautiful birds to fly in, lots of room and great payload. When I worked with Provincial I did some flying in theirs(passenger/navigator)