Pan Am Boeing 377 "Stratocruiser"-1950-Part l/lll

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AWESOME three part promo film for the mighty Boeing 377 "Stratocruiser"!!

One of the "Crown Jewels" of my collection to be sure, this one is NOT to be missed!!

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• Stratocrsuiser
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[DEP717]

Was this the plane in "The Crowded Sky?"

[mcdonnell220]

DC-7 in "The Crowded Sky", :-)

Chris

[mcdonnell220]

Correction: DC-6B in "The Crowded Sky".

D'oh!!

[lms264t]

Sometimes I think we need to go back to these fine aircraft.

[Stephie2007]

@niselat i think Sr.

[indyme2]

@colindhowell My father went down in that plane. He loved to fly Stratocruisers.

[dallatorretdu]

This is a very beautiful plane... what massive engines!

[colindhowell]

@niselat I think I found the accident report for this case in Embry-Riddle's online safety archives: Northwest Flight 410, August 5, 1955. From the report (3rd page, top paragraph), the fuselage was indeed slashed open (fortunately, no one was injured), but not by a failed prop blade. After the plane overran the runway, it crashed through a chain-link fence which got tangled in the props, and the tangled *fence* slashed the fuselage. Still pretty hairy if you were there, though!

[niselat]

@colindhowell It happened when a 377 overshot the runway at Midway

[niselat]

Credits: Robert Downey. As in Jr?

[christopherTsmith]

this is awesome thanks for the upload.

[VodkadAn]

That is one of the coolest and weirdest looking aircraft I've ever seen. I just think it looks phenomenal.

[colindhowell]

"... the 14,000 horsepower combination of her four engines--more power than it takes to drive a locomotive or an ocean liner." 14,000 hp was certainly more powerful than any locomotive--even today it would beat two of the largest diesel freight locomotives; only a few electrics come close. But it wasn't anywhere near ocean liner standards. Big liners were beating those levels by the 1890s; the Queen Mary of the 1930s had 160,000 hp, and the S.S. United States of the 1950s had 248,000 hp.

[colindhowell]

@LexSp1 Interesting story. I was wondering if in fact it was the same plane (airlines sometimes swapped the same name among different planes), but the registration N1023V also matches, and that stays with a single aircraft.