You Know You're Old Dept.

anon wrote:
"DABEAR" wrote in message
ups.com...
Hughes Electronics has a fleet of them operational at Van Nuys Airport,
California. They even have a C.O.D. version of sorts, complete with
passenger windows.

As a kid, I remember checking out a VIP Transport A-3 at Andrews. It had
leather seats!!

I've had only one opportunity to fly in an aircraft as a passenger and
find myself sitting in leather seats:

Swift Aire Lines, DeHavilland Heron, four-engines if you can believe it
(old RAF Military Utility Transport ~ the twin version was the "Dove"),
from Los Angeles to Santa Maria.

Would love to get me one of those!

Mojave has a flight tester, modified, just sitting with the wings
off...tempting! G

Five Questions out of curiousity: 1) Are all ultralights single
engine, and if not, 2) what ultra light(s) possess the most? 3) What
is the lightest engine in use on an ultralight? And 4) how much does
the engine weigh? 5) I've been told that the replica Wright Flyers
qualify as Ultra Lights, as do some of the pioneering aircraft 1903 -
1914 ~ is this true?

Thanks in advance for any answers I can get...

On 31 Dec 2006 22:25:37 -0800, "DABEAR"
wrote:


You can bet I'm old, I can remember when many early military aircraft
used to stop at Visalia, California airport when flying through the
central valley. Visalia had a long runway for those days. Among the
aircraft I saw there were a squadron of Curtiss Hawk P6E's from
Selfridge Field in the Snow owl paint jobs; a squadron of Martin B-10
or 12's; several versions of the Northrup attack and Consolidated
attack aircraft, I can't remember the numbers; an Grumman F3F1 and
later at the start of the war it was a base for Lockheed Hudsons,
P-61s and A-26s. B-17s, B-24s and B25s frequently landed there.