1936 Lockheed Electra 12A Junior - Fly/In Cruise/In
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2010
- Program #57 Part #4
Fly/In Cruise/In Video Magazine
Join us at the Fly/In Cruise/In as Joe Shepherd (Fayetteville, Georgia) tells us how he purchased this 1936 Lockheed Electra Junior in 1988. It had been sitting on a ramp in Texas for about 10 years. The owner wanted a Cessna 195, and he just happened to have one to trade. This Lockheed Electra was one of two that was used in the movie "Amelia" starring Hilary Swank & Richard Gere.
Portraying Amelia Earhart with the Lockheed at this years Fly/In Cruise/In is Pat Wegner. Join us as Pat shares with us her interest in Amelia Earhart & her feelings as to what might have happened when Amelia disappeared on her historic flight on July 2, 1937. Pat is with the "Shooting Star Museum" located between Castroville & Devine, Texas.
The Fly/In Cruise/In is held annually on Saturday of Labor Day weekend at the Marion, Indiana Municipal Airport.
www.FlyInCruiseIn.com
Produced by: Inge Harte - Ray Johnson - Авто та транспорт
This guy put 17 years of his life into this project and I would just like to thank him for his dedication to aviation and to history.. This Electra is a beautiful example of both..
Very different era than today. Much simpler, way more beautiful than todays aircraft, but I am 71 years old. Dancing in the clouds.
An absolute classic. Nobody could mistake a Beech 18 for a Lockheed with the two side by side: every line of the Lockheed says "speed" - a truly beautiful aircraft. Thanks for posting!
The Cessna 195 he traded was a rather interesting vintage aeroplane as well.
Love it ,,, can’t get enough of it!!!!!!,!,!
Very nice restoration of an American classic. R985 is one heck of a radial.
I know next to nothing about Aeroplanes, but good god, is that one good looking machine!
If that plane could talk.... Love those old birds they seen more altitude class sophistication and style than most planes these days good to see a shiny old bird back in the air
Saw one of these flying over my neighborhood the other day. So awesome!
What a beautiful bird!!! The bright aluminum and the yellow/orange crank cases
make for a stunning contrast...
thanx and...
cheers
thank you
Finally a normal pilot. He don't pretend to be an important and fine gentleman. When you look at other guys who don't know how to behave in order for people to appreciate them more. What misery!
What a beautiful plane! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Yeah, she's such a beauty!
Beautiful old bird👍
In case you missed it, Joe said it burns 50 gallons per hour so it cost him minimum $1000 each way (using $7/gal) so when these guys fly-in with a relic please donate whatever you can to help them.
If I got the story correct,,,, Glenn Hancock now owns this electra. I got to fly it for a few minutes last Saturday. There's only a handful of these planes still flying! Lockeed built a great airplane here!
this is realy nice....this plane is great...and the people who restaurate it also....i wish i could fly with it.............
Great! 🇺🇲 👍
That's a Mighty fine aircraft right there.....it is so beautiful and so cool to me now, just think the impact it must have made on people in 1936 and i to would love to see the inside
great vid. and great plane :)
looks more like l14 cause of the long nose length, just one beautiful plane!
Very beautiful plane. I have to ask? Would their have been any advantage if a third prop blade was added?
Amelia Earhart is my historical crush! Some guys may have their historical crushes be Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Marylin Monroe, Jacklyn Kennedy. Mine is Amelia Earhart because she was a go-getter, little spitfire.
Same.
All things perfect, what's the ballpark LDR for a plane like this?
It was a good video, but I wish they hadnt cut off the crosswind landing!
That is one gorgeous aircraft! What's the jazz music playing at the end of the video?
How about the interior tour?
Why are some of us still talking about Emilia Earhart crashing into the ocean and getting eaten by sharks? It's a new century folks, been almost 100 year already, Emilia did what she loved which is crashing into the ocean and getting eaten by sharks so turn a page already.
Amelia was careless. She didn't have a powerful radio with a trailing aerial for long distances and her navigator liked the bottle too much. With my limited knowledge of air navigation, it is my opinion the only way she might have done it was if she had had many ships strung out along the route giving her compass bearings by radio. I'm not sure if gyro compasses were around then but that would have been an essential tool in my bag. Perhaps she had one. I don't know.
I do not mean to detract from Amelia's heroine status or belittle her in any way but facts are facts.
Hallo Adrian, I guess - she didn't know - she had had it's a special antenna underneath mounted (parallel to plane - front -to-rear ca. +- 5m -long)
some zoll/centimeter higher than the wheel , at the start broke away)
so I saw in film of - one of last- newer- Investigations - made some year ago
Surely - open question = what *she have done or not - realizing - *Next stop....??
- Other side - For my understanding - how can it be - people did hear with normal Radio
in USA - here Voice.. about here problems ??
thank's for attention. Greetings fom Germany
im glad he explained by miles and feet! i dont know how many countless times i had to google because people keep using km and meters instead...yea its no big deal to google something but it does get annoying have to google conversions over and over and over again.....even people who use military time gets annoying after a while...."its 19:36!!" uhh yea buddy i dont feel like figuring out the math there say the proper time please!....-__- (I am NOT good at math including mental math!) lol
Seems like Amelia was taken by the Japanese.