Search the archive:
 YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
  Simviation Forum › Real World › Real Aviation › Hughes HK1: documentary caps pt2
(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Hughes HK1: documentary caps pt2 (Read 106 times)
Jun 12th, 2006 at 6:48am

beaky   Offline
Global Moderator
Uhhhh.... yup!
Newark, NJ USA

Gender: male
 Posts: 14187
 *****
 
A special dry-dock was built for the Hercules:

...


Nov. 2, 1947: the big day. A huge crowd has assembled to see the beast fly for the first (and what will be the last) time.
     ...




Hughes arrives; he will of course be PIC for the test flight.      ...




Soon she's ready to be towed out into the harbor.
     ...




Slowly being towed out...

...



Some more personnel arrive by boat.
     ...



Hughes takes up watch during the tow, making sure the area is clear.
     ...

...



Next: she taxis for the first time...
 
...
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Jun 12th, 2006 at 10:23am

Serpent_6   Offline
Colonel
Holland

Gender: male
 Posts: 571
 *****
 
Thats one big plane Shocked but i think it never lifted more than a few feet out of the water ???
 
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Jun 12th, 2006 at 6:53pm

beaky   Offline
Global Moderator
Uhhhh.... yup!
Newark, NJ USA

Gender: male
 Posts: 14187
 *****
 
Quote:
Thats one big plane Shocked but i think it never lifted more than a few feet out of the water ???


Watch this space... Grin
 
...
Back to top 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›
  « Home ‹ Board Top of this page

Simviation Forum » Powered by YaBB 2.5 AE!
YaBB Forum Software © 2000-2010. All Rights Reserved.

Valid RSS Valid XHTML Valid CSS Powered by Perl Source Forge