There’s another reason: Replace all that greenhouse cabin with fuel tank and you’re looking at one of the most famous aircraft of all time: Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. In particular, I enjoy aircraft with expansive greenhouses, and the NC-1 and Ryan’s Brougham certainly qualified. The craft’s sorry demise was only part of its attraction to me as a GMax/Microsoft Flight Simulator project. (Compare it with the middle image on the cover above.) This and another image from Classic Airplanes of the 30’s and Aircraft of the Roaring 20’s. Indeed, the aircraft resembled a Ryan Brougham, though it was actually built by the Neilson Steel Aircraft Corporation of Berkeley, California. Interesting History: Tidbits galore are offered here in two parts: today (the craft itself) and tomorrow (its GMax modeling). CLASSIC AIRPLANES of the 30’s and Aircraft of the Roaring 20’s, The Antique Airplane Association, Arno Press, 1980. However, the landing gear collapsed on take-off and the crowd went after the remains like a flock of vultures.” THE 1929 GOLDEN BEAR CABIN PLANE-SOARING PLANS, SORRY DEMISE PART 1ĪS DESCRIBED IN CLASSIC AIRPLANES of the 30’s and Aircraft of the Roaring 20’s, “The November 1939 issue of ‘Popular Aviation’ carried a photo sequence of the destruction of a Ryan airplane by a mob that had been awaiting the deliberate crash of this airplane.
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