Stormin' Norman <norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium> wrote in
news:tuclpdtrqqp8cea0n1f8atku9369f9shod@4ax.com:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:35:53 -0500, Mitchell Holman
> <noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>
> Never having seen this, I dropped the picture into Google images and
> discovered this is:
>
> "Dayton-Wright RB-1 (Rinehart-Bauman model one), also known simply as
> the Dayton-Wright Racer"
>
> One of the first aircraft that incorporated retractable landing gear.
>
> Here is more information.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-Wright_Racer
>
> Thanks for the post Mitchell.
>
>
Even the Spirit of St Louis
afforded a better cockpit view
than that. What a nightmare that
must have been to fly.
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