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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Your Sunday Morning Big Prop Noise

A DC-7 fire bomber.

Fire bombing seems to often be the last purpose for an old airliner before going to the smelter.

4 comments:

CenterPuke88 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7/22/2018 7:48 PM
CenterPuke88 said...: Sorry, Comrade, tried to link it but the https got denied, and without it I got a 404...

AVWeb has a story on the conversation of six ex-SWA B737-300’s into water bombers...

https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/737-Firefighting-Aircraft-Under-Testing-230989-1.html

I searched for your post on this and failed, madam!; 7/22/2018 7:51 PM
Old NFO said...: Ah yes, the 'growl' of four 3350s! And those are the long stack version! They were truly workhorse engines! Burned oil like it was going of style, and throwing it out too! 18 gal reservoirs, it would 'burn 6, through 6 out, and leave you 6 gallons...LOL; 7/22/2018 10:29 PM
Deadstick said...: In my college years in Atlanta, I used to fly back and forth to home in Miami on the TWA Super Connies. I always scheduled night flights so I could watch the exhaust flames: huge, billowing orange on takeoff, gradually fading to blue as the FE tuned the mixtures. Loved it.; 7/23/2018 9:34 AM

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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Your Sunday Morning Big Prop Noise

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