this plane was restored less than a mile from my child hood home
 

......spent many days at the airport...Felts Field..go to site for more!

http://home.comcast.net/~biplane0/boeing40/

http://home.comcast.net/~biplane0/bo...classic2sm.jpg

xoxoxoo

Very cool! Those old rotary engines are remarkably impressive when seen up close. I had the pleasure of seeing them at the Air Force Museum years ago, a definite should-see if ever given the opportunity.

Wow, what a gorgeous airplane. I'm glad people care and are interested enough to restore such beautiful old things.

Felts Field and that plane and terrain reminds me of a flight I took out of a PACNW airport a few years ago. It was out of Bellingham, WA. My flight from Chicago was heavily delayed due to serious snow storm, but eventually we landed in Seattle; then they told us all outgoing flights are on hold until the next day; I needed to get to central British Columbia asap so I asked around, somebody drove me thru the storm to Bellingham Airport where some cowboy guy in a two seater plane said "hell yeah, let's go"; the only room for me was sitting next to him up front; so we took off couldn't even see the prop, fly a couple hours in pea soup thick cloud cover; suddenly he says "we're here" and immediately drops out of the sky, under the clouds and there we were, directly above Prince George, BC.

great story!.....I've lived around airplanes and people with/or who worked on planes my whole life......I get in one and I start puking,just can't get over the motion sickness........oh well..........xoxoxoo

Now that is a cool machine.

That is a really beautiful plane. It reminds my of movies like Only Angels Have Wings (a Cary Grant film) and books like Nightflight (A Antoine de Saint Exupery book).

Very cool! My grandfather spent countless hours restoring this plane:

http://www.wingsofeagles.com/images/Stearman75001.JPG
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/images/Stearman75007.JPG
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/images/Stearman75004.JPG
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/images/Stearman75005.JPG
http://www.wingsofeagles.com/images/Stearman75002.JPG

http://www.wingsofeagles.com/stearman.cfm

It was certainly a passion for him....

Wow. That is impressive. The yellow plane is cool, but I like that silver (assuming aluminum bodied?) plane a ton.

troit,
very cool plane your grandpa built. Is that in a museum now? It sort of looks like it is.