Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Iowan]

Some days are like that!

 

[Daver1963]

This picture was found in an article at the website War History Online. Below the picture is the link to the article and more pictures. The caption read:
October 1942. Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line. 4X5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

Colour WWII photos look like they were taken yesterday - WAR HISTORY ONLINE

 

[Diamondpilot]

This picture was found in an article at the website War History Online. Below the picture is the link to the article and more pictures. The caption read:
October 1942. Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line. 4X5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

Colour WWII photos look like they were taken yesterday - WAR HISTORY ONLINE

I pull our plane, 28,000#, in and out with a 2008 Polaris Ranger Crew.

Chris

 

[Katahdin]

The WWII Picture reminds of a neutrality loophole that was exploited here in Maine.

Prior to the US entering the war (before Pearl Harbor), war planes would be flown to Houlton, ME on the US/Canada border. Local farmers would then tow the planes into Canada where they were handed over to Canadians and Brits who flew off with them and put them to use against **** Germany.

Houlton Maine farmer helps tow american war planes into Canada!

 

[edkemper]

October 1942. Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line.\\

My dad worked his whole career for North American Aviation (Now Rockwell International). Was on their baseball team back in the late 40s/early 50s. Started as a Draftsman and retired as a Project Manager on the B-1.

I was onsite to watch the B-70A towed out of the hanger and watched the inaugural flight. I still have two envelopes signed by both Al White and Joe Cotton (Pilot/copilot) that were on the flight deck on the first flight and the first Mack 3 Flight. What a show that was.

 

[dragoneggs]

My dad worked his whole career for North American Aviation (Now Rockwell International). Was on their baseball team back in the late 40s/early 50s. Started as a Draftsman and retired as a Project Manager on the B-1.

I was onsite to watch the B-70A towed out of the hanger and watched the inaugural flight. I still have two envelopes signed by both Al White and Joe Cotton (Pilot/copilot) that were on the flight deck on the first flight and the first Mack 3 Flight. What a show that was.

Cool! Actually mighty Rockwell International broke up... the aerospace division was bought by Boeing in the late 90s. I had the pleasure to work with several Rockwell engineers on a joint project for the 777 program. Rockwell- Collins is big in Avionics and there is a Rockwell Automation company that I don't know much about.

 

[edkemper]

I stand corrected. Now that I think about it, Dad's retirement check came from Boeing. A long Aeronautical history.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I don't have a photo but I do have a short story. Yesterday afternoon, I headed out to the bus garage to get ready for my afternoon school bus run. My wife had taken the car so I took my box truck. Along the way, I met a pickup with a gooseneck that was hogging the road (on my side of the yellow lines) over a slightly narrow bridge so I was more concerned with my space than scoping out the truck. I did notice that he had some galvanized gates or something. Not an unusual site in my area, one of the so called gate making capitals of the country.

Anyway, a short time later I see a bundle of round bale panels along the road. At three panels to a circle, there was maybe three sets. So, I soon flash back to the road hog and think, I bet that person ties down his loads as well as he drives. Anyway, I get to the garage where there are several other drivers that come the same way.

Everyone had seen the panels and speculating on why they were not tied down properly, why did the driver not feel or see them fall off the trailer, how long they would sit along the road before someone picked them up, etc. etc. Turned out, someone saw the truck turning around in town just past the panels to get back on the same side of the road and pick them up. Just glad they fell off to the side and not in someone's windshield.

That person was also lucky no one else grabbed them as there are alot of cattle being fed round bales here.

 

[94BULLITT]

Civic towing a Protege with a towbar.

 

[94BULLITT]

Civic towing a Protege with a towbar.