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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The only example of the XC-99 was put into service and made its first operational flight in July 1950.
It was used as part of Operation Elephant in which it broke a record by transporting 101,266 lb of cargo, a majority of which included engine parts and propellers for the B-36, from San Diego to Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.
The XC-99 would go on to break its own record in August 1953 when it transported 104,000 lb worth of cargo from Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda to Rhein-Main Air Force base in Germany via the Azores islands. The unusual design features of the XC-99 prompted many public spectators to turn out to watch it during the journey. |
Weird, why does it look like the shadow of all but the 3 right most dudes was photoshopped to be a lot longer?
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Katy Freeway in Houston TX is one of the widest highways in the world. I never want to drive on it!
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Thank goodness it's that wide! I drive it 2 days a week on my 84 mile (each way) commute. I hit it at about 540am after having been on the road about 50 mins on the way in. On the way home, I'm on it around 230. Most of my commute is 75mph speed limit with the cruise set at 83mph. It drops down to 60-65 near Houston, but I keep the speed up in the 80-83 range if I can. Around Katy on the way home, I often run into about 5 miles of traffic that could be anywhere from 40-80mph.
Underside of a conical roof from a home that was built in the 1880-1910 time frame (I didn't keep the exact year from the caption).
sweat bee at the house. Solitary bee that is not very stingy unless you really harass them.
I did see a Lucid the other day on my commute, and often see a Rimac truck. And the other day I saw an Audi that reminded me of a Taycan. I have also run into a fairly new Alpina B6. Today I spend 50 miles trading spots with a newish M5 that sounded pretty good just cruising.
THis is a coopers jointer plane. Unlike most planes where you push the plane back and forth over the wood, this thing is huge and immobile and you push the wood back and forth over the plane.
A Stanley bailey #1 bench plane. Many, MANY different planes were made, but the standard bench plane that most of us are probably at least vaguely familiar with where made in sizes 1 through 8.
3-8 plus a couple of block planes
I'm really dying to get one of these, "Ultimatum Braces." It's a wood and brace brace (hand drill)
