Pagoda SL Group

Off Topic => Way Off Topic => Topic started by: Rolf-Dieter ✝︎ on December 08, 2014, 21:56:46

Title: Of interest to Pilots of the Pagoda SL Group ....
Post by: Rolf-Dieter ✝︎ on December 08, 2014, 21:56:46

..... even to many others I assume :)

The footage of this old film is truly amazing, and we have to give the Ford Motor Co. a lot of credit  for the
incredible amount of ingenuity used to manufacture these planes on an assembly line.

The pilots that flew them for the first time were gutsy guys.  A real piece of history This was 6 months BEFORE Pearl Harbor ! 
Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce bombers just as he had done with cars, so he built the Willow Run
assembly plant in Michigan and proved it.  It was the world's largest building under one roof at the time.

This film will absolutely blow you away - one B-24 every 55 minutes . . . and Ford had their own pilots to test them.
 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/iKlt6rNciTo?rel=0

                                                                                                       

Title: Fast forward in time ... AIRBUS 350
Post by: Rolf-Dieter ✝︎ on December 09, 2014, 17:22:01

You don't see this every day :) ... Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4jWYZLeHQ&feature=youtu.be

Title: Re: Of interest to Pilots of the Pagoda SL Group ....
Post by: kampala on December 10, 2014, 02:23:54

Both are very impressive --- Thanks for posting.