Watchout for low flying aircraft

Awesome! Seems like I saw one of these once...somewhere. Hmm. Maybe I was in Nebraska...

Kevin
 
I worked on the end product in the Renton/Seattle area. They used to arrive with occasional bullet holes from some midwest farm lad or drunk redneck doing target practice. My son-in-law who works for MRL told me of one fuselage that suffered from a shifted rail while going through a tunnel. Great modeling.
 
I don't think its teh 787 I'm thinking of, but I could be wrong. All I remember is that the jet is a few stories tall, bigger than any other jet in the world, and made its debut flights about a year ago or so. Even made a landing in Chicago at O'Hare
 
viperman: I believe you are thinking of the Airbus A380 aka. the aluminum cloud. Much too large to fit on a railroad car. Boeing uses rail for their 737 and until recently, the 757. They also ship components for the 747 in special cars from Southern CA.
 
I worked on the design of the real cars with BNSF and Boeing along with some of the tooling. My award for my contribution to the program was the greatest gift I could have ever receive in a life time. Deliver the first 737-700 unit from Wichita to Renton. It happen back in 1996 and frankly, I'm still on that train which took us 4 1/2 days to complete. One of my memories was the time going through the cascade tunnel. That took 45 minutes at 10 mph. What a sweet ride it was. So I had to make a model to keep the memory alive in me.

It's too bad no one makes these cars yet because they are a great to have as part of your collection.

rrg :wave:
 
Looking fantastic !!!!! I see them here in Wichita all the time. How did you make the fuselage? Maybe a wood dowel of appropriate size?
 
radar said:
Looking fantastic !!!!! I see them here in Wichita all the time. How did you make the fuselage? Maybe a wood dowel of appropriate size?
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The fuselage was made from a piece of bass wood and hand carved. I had to work from pictures in a book and several photographs that I took to get the correct contour. Once I had what I wanted I copied them onto a photo copy and either reduced them or enlarged to a size to fit the scale. That took a little time but once I was happy with that I just laid the photo copies up against a squared block of bass wood and traced along the contour onto a rare tool called carbon paper. Then I cut along the scribed lines with a band saw and proceeded with a very lengthy time to shape the fuselage. The fuselage is a bit heavy so when we pull it around the layout it's pulled slowly.

rrg :wave:
 
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