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Old 17-06-2007, 02:27 PM   #1
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Talking Ford TRI motor (a very different Ford)

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Old 17-06-2007, 05:46 PM   #2
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Old 17-06-2007, 05:54 PM   #3
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Saw one up close at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.. this plane type was the backbone of US air travel and air freight for a long time.
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Old 17-06-2007, 06:08 PM   #4
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How many out the 200 produced are still around today?
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Old 17-06-2007, 06:15 PM   #5
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wiki article says 17 with only a few still in flyable condition
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Old 18-06-2007, 11:40 AM   #6
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Smithsonian Institute at Dulles Airport just outside of washington DC has one of the original Ford Tri Motors there. You can walk all around it and touch it.
They also the original Dash 80 or better known as 707 (first ever swept wing commercial jet), the Enola Gay (dropped the atomic bomb over Tokyo in WW2), a Concord, an SR71 Blackbird, and part of the wreckage from the two 767's used in 911. This is not an outside museum by the way, it is covered and air conditioned. You should also see some of the engines that they have on display from WW2; there is a 73 cylinder 92 litre radial engine that develops a whopping 3775kw.
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Old 18-06-2007, 12:09 PM   #7
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Saw one up close at the Henry Ford museum in Detroit.. this plane type was the backbone of US air travel and air freight for a long time.
Is that the one on top of the entrance ????
You walk under it ????
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Is that the one on top of the entrance ????
You walk under it ????
No, it was further back (on the ground) near "the house of the future". Back behind the drive-in part and off to the left.
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