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Howard Hughes, genius with a bit of an issue... but he really was on his game early on

Abandoned stuff website

the LeTourneau electric arctic land trains has a great write up recently on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/11/19/54-wheel-drive-the-letourneau-electric-arctic-land-trains-that-put-australian-road-trains-to-shame/

Above, the Kee Bird, which was the subject of an awesome recovery effort when private funding got it up and running, and moving, but old electrical wiring shorted, and the whole thing burned to cinders on film while a documentary was being filmed, it is so worth seeing!

For the story: http://www.rb-29.net/HTML/03RelatedStories/03.03shortstories/03.03.09contss.htm

Check out the stories on all of these at: http://www.artificialowl.net

Cool images from Speed Seekers

A Citreon 2 CV speedster... that's new! I've never seen anyone even draw one before

Left at the line I think...

Via: http://speedseekers.blogspot.com/

What the ?

I can see it's at the end of some runway, but why the tank tracks?

Cool nose art! P40 called Old Red

Wow. That is bitchin... apropos too
Via: http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

John A McCurdy, Silver Dart, 1909, Nova Scotia

Imagine that you are in 1909, and taking this out for its maiden voyage... hoping all the nuts and bolts are tight, and that nothing was forgotten in the final assembly.

It was flown off the ice of Baddeck Bay Nova Scotia, on 23 February 1909, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada.

The aircraft was piloted by one of its designers, John McCurdy, and built by the Aerial Experiment Association, formed under the guidance of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.