"From lead sheet: The following article prepared by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Historian Mike Wright appeared in 1993 in Research and Technology, Annual Report of the Marshall Space Flight Center which was dedicated to the Skylab Space Station Program."
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Other Skylab blog posts here
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Previous entries in this series are here
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Another great walk around tour by Howard Mason is here
Virtual tour here
One of my followers, Trevor, had an idea. It goes like this:
"I had an idea for the site in that there could be a list that people could contribute to as kind of a "wish list" for different aircraft documents as kind of a drive to get more contributions to the sight. Not sure how it would be implemented but here are a couple of ideas for it.
1. Only you would have control with the public only making requests so as to help prevent spam posts.
2. If implemented make it as a secondary post as part of each daily post."
People - Any thoughts on this subject as to how to do this or any other ways to bring contributions for me to share with you? Right now, contributions are done using email and file transfer sites.
Remember that my primary reason for creating this blog was to preserve aviation knowlege and items before they are lost!
Let me know thru my email or the comment section below.
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C-74 YouTube video here
From Wikipedia:
"The Douglas C-74 Globemaster was a United States heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California. The aircraft was developed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The long distances across the Atlantic and, especially, Pacific oceans to combat areas indicated a need for a transoceanic heavy-lift military transport aircraft. Douglas Aircraft Company responded in 1942 with a giant four-engined design. Development and production modifications issues with the aircraft caused the first flight to be delayed until 5 September 1945, and production was limited to 14 aircraft when the production contract was canceled following V-J Day.
Although not produced in large numbers, the C-74 did fill the need for a long-range strategic airlifter, in which the subsequent Douglas C-124 Globemaster II was used by the Air Force for many years."
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Additional info here
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Title: TECHNICAL MANUAL
ENGINEERING HANDBOOK SERIES FOR AIRCRAFT REPAIR
GENERAL MANUAL FOR STRUCTURAL REPAIR
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"Putting a turret on the nose of the airplane so the cannon could be aimed in a different direction than the airplane was pointed was a noval idea. Radar-aimed turrets were being developed for bombers and this was a logical extension of that effort. In the late 1940s, the Navy contracted with Emerson for the AERO X17A system that replaced the nose on the Grumman Panther, F9F-3 BuNo 122562." (Paraphrased from Tommy H. Thomason's article.) Credit: William Rudolph collection
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Tommy H. Thomason's great article here
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Front view of aircraft here
active aircraft accident prevention program." (From the forward.)
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Postimg.org has a registry problem and they have moved to postimg.cc.
All photos are still available; but, the "CC" must be subtituted for "ORG" in the corresponding URL address to get to the proper place. (Hold cursor over link to get URL address.)
Let me know if I need to fix any links beyound the dozen or so that I have already fixed.
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Note: My archives show 145307 and 145316 were "Sageburner' aircraft, not 145310 as listed in promo. Also, as a young flight test engineer in 1963, I was in charge of this aircraft and it never carried any "Sageburner" markings. (It might have been a back-up aircraft; but, was never used as such.)
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Original sale article is here
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"In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years, probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of exploration by the United States and the human species in general. Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate."
NASA publication SP-2010-4704.
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