Hey, You OLD AIRPLANE Guys

G.M. said:
Here's a picture of my 310F serial Number 310F-0001 which was the
prototype of the swept tail model. I few it 350 hours a year and put
close to 6,000 hours on it. After I retired the hours per year got lower
and lower but the expenses were still high for the time I used it so I
sold it. It was a well equipted nice flying airplane. G.M.
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I love 310's. My father-in-law owned a a 310 Riley Rocket conversion at one time.
 
I couldn't afford the Radial engine at the time, so I went VW powered with Belt Drive Reduction for the WWI Fokker Dr1 that I built. I have a Harley and a '36 Ford pickup with running Flathead and nothing sounds better than that (still wished I could have afforded the Radial engine though).

Bruce in California
 

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A radial to fit that DR1 kit would be pretty small. Warner engines were small but I don't know how well it would fit. I've seen that some later models have been developed but I don't know much about them.

A person can just mention the Pietenpol Air Camper or Sky Scout to get the discussion back on a Ford topic except it would be more toward Model Ts or Model As. The Funk brothers built an airplane but they are just as well known for their H6 and V8 conversions of the little Ford N type tractors.
 
" ...almost correct."

Tiger,

Being very modest, I did not want to show off. There's more information that could be extrapolated from knowing the time, direction, airspeed, etc. of an incoming attack. Not only intercepts but air raid warnings, anti-aircraft defences (note the spelling), dispersal of aircraft on the ground, etc., ... time to target considerations as well as the likely targets.

German fighters had very limited loiter over England and were very vulnerable as they exited as were the German bombers that were left behind them. Tagging and tracking their time in country, by color-coding the time of detection into 5 minute segments, certainly would be an advantage itself.

Save me from myself ...
 
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I hate to start a dispute with GM, but the first c-310 with a swept fail was the D model.
 
Hoop,

Noticed the spelling and in your defense (notice the spelling);.....
you're nearly there

Here's a clue....
 

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I have a Chipmunk with a Gypsie engine sitting in my hangar next to the 31 Widebed and 39 pickup. I believe the Heron, Dove and the two Rapide biplanes at DuxFORD also had the Gypsie Queen engines. ( cylinders on the single engine planes were pointed down so the Exalted Ruler could see over the nose).
 
Here's one that makes the right kind of noise.
Modified Starduster Too with 755 Jake.
I built it and still have it.
 

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oldford2 said:
My son in law was a captain on 757's and Airbuses so I did a lot of family pass flying.
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Dad was a pilot for NWA, so we kids got to go many places on passes. The downside was that as a "non-rev," you had to be prepared to get bumped by a paying passenger. During his career, he flew the Boeing 247, 377, 727; Douglas DC-3, DC-4, DC-6. DC-7; Martin 202; and Lockheed 1049-G, L-188. To keep this Ford related, we had a 1940 Tudor Deluxe, and he told of once flying a plane with a Ford flathead engine that he remembered as being so seriously under-powered that he landed it as soon as possible.
 
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