Posted: 9/10/2013 5:27:45 PM EDT
me circa 1981
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me circa 1981 <a href="http://s1257.photobucket.com/user/LkPowell2012/media/213468a5-b366-4a5b-9822-62df1c2eb8e1_zps843b815a.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i1257.photobucket.com/albums/ii503/LkPowell2012/213468a5-b366-4a5b-9822-62df1c2eb8e1_zps843b815a.jpg</a> Ford 400. Maybe a 351. 
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Not sure on the model, but has to be a GE hanging off a 707 My bad! Seems that GE never supplied engines for the 707. Only P&W did. Still probably a 707 with a JT3 for 1961 Negative. For one, diameter is too large. Second, wing is much too high off the ground to be a 707. Third, see the flap track fairings on the trailing edge? Show me where those are located on a 707. 
That's a wide-body A/C, and 1981 would be too early for a 767. If it's a Delta bird, that leaves one option: RB211 on a TriStar. ETA "proof": 
^ picture is reputed to be an RB211 on an L10 (from Airliners.net forum thread); count the screws on the fan nose cone and look at OP #2 pic. CF6 for reference (and timeline is wrong for CF6-powered 767): 
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Negative. For one, diameter is too large. Second, wing is much too high off the ground to be a 707. Third, see the flap track fairings on the trailing edge? Show me where those are located on a 707.
That's a wide-body A/C, and 1981 would be too early for a 767. If it's a Delta bird, that leaves one option: RB211 on a TriStar. ETA "proof": http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-26408/annica1.jpg ^ picture is reputed to be an RB211 on an L10 (from Airliners.net forum thread); count the screws on the fan nose cone and look at OP #2 pic. CF6 for reference (and timeline is wrong for CF6-powered 767): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Ge_cf6_turbofan.jpg/800px-Ge_cf6_turbofan.jpg Quoted:
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Not sure on the model, but has to be a GE hanging off a 707 My bad! Seems that GE never supplied engines for the 707. Only P&W did. Still probably a 707 with a JT3 for 1961 Negative. For one, diameter is too large. Second, wing is much too high off the ground to be a 707. Third, see the flap track fairings on the trailing edge? Show me where those are located on a 707.
That's a wide-body A/C, and 1981 would be too early for a 767. If it's a Delta bird, that leaves one option: RB211 on a TriStar. ETA "proof": http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-26408/annica1.jpg ^ picture is reputed to be an RB211 on an L10 (from Airliners.net forum thread); count the screws on the fan nose cone and look at OP #2 pic. CF6 for reference (and timeline is wrong for CF6-powered 767): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Ge_cf6_turbofan.jpg/800px-Ge_cf6_turbofan.jpg I'm thinking its a United JT-9 powered 767. Fan blades are the wrong direction for a RB-211 also the spinner is rounded rather than pointed. As far as the Delta bird, ship 479 (nose gear doors) most definitely is a 727. Probably was retired somewhere around 2002. |
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Good catch! I got hung up counting screw holes and completely missed that. 
OP's date is "questionable"; 767 didn't enter service 'til 1982. The JT-9 fan looks right: http://jetartaviation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Boeing-747-Jumbo-Jet-Pratt-and-Whitney-JT9D-Engine-Fan.jpg Quoted:
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Fan blades are the wrong direction for a RB-211... Good catch! I got hung up counting screw holes and completely missed that.
OP's date is "questionable"; 767 didn't enter service 'til 1982. The JT-9 fan looks right: http://jetartaviation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Boeing-747-Jumbo-Jet-Pratt-and-Whitney-JT9D-Engine-Fan.jpg Could be a 747, but I think the 747 JT9 had a smaller diameter fan than the 767, and didn't have the second set of midspan shrouds. Even a picture of the cowlings would confirm either 747 or 767. 767 JT9 and Pratt 4000 cowls are almost indestinguishable, but 747 JT9 cowls are quite easy to pick out. |
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heh, yeah...I went up and down the east coast a few times...I had a shit ton of L10-11 white plastic airplanes they handed out.... Quoted:
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L-1011 was my first guess. I spent a good deal of my childhood in one flying with my dad. heh, yeah...I went up and down the east coast a few times...I had a shit ton of L10-11 white plastic airplanes they handed out.... I remember those! |