AAF Lament:
"Glory! No more regulations!
Rip them down at every station!
Ground the guy that tries to make one!
And LET US FLY LIKE HELL!"
From "There I Was...Flat On My Back" by Bob Stevens
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Sweet yet sad at the same time. I've always wondered why the designers opted for such a strange angle for the forward cockpit windows though...
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I have the book "The Boeing 247" by F. Robert van der Linden, and it says the idea of the forward raked windscreen was to reduce daytime glare and to to keep the gauges from reflecting off the glass at night. It also created extra drag and tended to reflect light off the ground at night so the idea did not stick.
Attached are three contemporaries of the 247 that I can think of that have the forward design. The Lockheed 10 prototype, Stinson Model A and Air Couzinet 10 v2.
At about the two-minute mark into that video there is offered a stunning contrast between what was, and what now is. Take a look.
Bill Leaming
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Bill Leaming
3d Modeler Max/GMax
C & XML Gauge Programmer
Military Visualizations
http://milviz.com
Intel® Core™ i7-3770k 4.2GHz - Crucial 16GB DDR3 - Dual Radeon HD770 1GB DDR5 (Crossfire) - Eco II Watercooling - Win7 64bit
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