Ford Tri-Motor (dial-up warning)

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Ford Tri-Motor (dial-up warning)

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Took a ride out to the Port Clinton Ohio airport today, they had a Ford tri-motor in town and they were selling rides to finance their maintenence and restoration costs. The Ford tri-motor planes come here every year, because of Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport's history with the Ford planes.
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Island Airlines flights typically started at the airport in Port Clinton and landed at Kelleys, South Bass, Middle Bass, and North Bass islands. It was dubbed the "World's Shortest Airline" because the round-trip flight was 17 miles and took just 45 minutes. Island Airlines used Tri-Motors from 1936 until 1986.
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suprisingly there was a lot more room in the cabin compared to modern passenger jets, here are some cabin shots;
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Here is a picture of the lake Erie and the Erie islands, out beyond the horizon is Canada, Ontario province.
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four piston disc brakes, I don't think that these were standard in 1927;
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Here is a picture of myself and the Mrs;
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I would love to have had a picture of my slick taken next to this plane, maybe next year. But until then I might try photoshop.
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Post by jakdad »

Thanks! Great pics!
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wow. very cool. thanks for sharing those pics.
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The tri-motors are a cool planes. :D Been up in them twice. 8)
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Awesome! I rode in the Tri-motor at Oshkosh a few years back and we tooled around Lake Winnebago. I had always wanted a ride in one of those myself.

Great pics!
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Post by Phil »

very Cool!

Been there a million times and have only see that plane from a distance.
Awesome!
Someday I'll get another slick :(
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Very cool! I want to fly it though.
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Yeah thanks Biggus!, love old planes, what about the front shot of the wing! and the external control wires :) make a good peanut flyer model!


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Looking at that plane sure makes one appreciate how far aviation technology has come in such a short time.
Cool pics! :thumright:
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i know that disc brakes were used on planes first, but i don't know if they went that far back. they might be original types. i believe that ww2 era bombers used discs.
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Beautiful plane. Didn't Lao Che try to kill Indy with one of those?
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gotta love the corrugated aluminum and the external control horns... haha awesome....
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Post by FORDBOYpete »

Great Photos Thanks for sharing with us. I'm a latant Aeronaut my damn self.
Love to look at those ol' birds, But it never ceases to amaze me we won WW II with stuff like that. :roll:

I am uncertain about external control cable routing on those bad boys. That's what those bellcrank thingees & angular cables
running up to the wing flaps are all about visible in Photos 1-3 to. Had to be hell in winter when stuff got icy & all. . . :shock:
Pilots had to have arms like Mighty Joe Young to fly those old Birds. . . :roll:

FWIW whenever I'm messing with Ol' Warbirds, I marvel at the folks who flew them with all those cables, pullies,
bellcranks, clevis's and all the other mechani-techno parts that move.
So many things that move & can go wrong. shrug.gif

Somehow Fly By Wire with Hydraulic assist seems so much farther advanced and so superior to me. :roll:

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FORDBOYpete wrote:
FWIW whenever I'm messing with Ol' Warbirds, I marvel at the folks who flew them with all those cables, pullies,
bellcranks, clevis's and all the other mechani-techno parts that move.
So many things that move & can go wrong. shrug.gif
:iagree:
Actually, my previous post was "nice talk" for..."I wouldn't fly in that thing if you paid me!" :shock: :lol:
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Roger, Copy That SF

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