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I love when you guys post Golden Age material! Look at those designs! Thanks!

The 'family car' in front of the United Airlines Boeing 247 is a Stout Scarab (info thanks to JF on Wings of Peace Yahoo Group ) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stout_Scarab

Boeing 247 NC13321 c/n 1702 United Air Lines (before conversion to 247D). History, from the Boeing 247 book: Boeing Air Transport - May 13, 1933 to April 30, 1934 United Air Lines - May 1, 1934 to June 1, 1942 (Converted to 247D standard May 27, 1935) USAAC as C-73 - June 25, 1942 to May 3, 1945 Aero Transportes (Mexico) as XA-FEO - July 1945 to ? Aeronaves de Michoacan, SA as XA-KAJ or XA-KAI, unknown date to about 1958 Cecil Coffin, Brooklyn, NY as N5501A - January 8, 1959 to ? Below, two photos of this plane in Vancouver, after the 247D conversion.

Boeing 247D DZ203 c/n 1726 ex NC13344, CF-TBA and RCAF 7655. This famous aircraft, one of eight bought the British Purchasing Commission for Canada, was used to develop the ILS system, as well as airborne intercept radar. Per Phil Butler's 'Air Arsenal north America': "One of the Canadian purchases was later shipped to England (in July) 1941 where it was sued for early airborne radar experiments. The fuselage was capacious enough to house the bulky experimental radar sets and the Boeing was used to develop Airborne Interception (AI) radar for use in night fighters. Later it was used for the development of Instrument Landing Systems until being scrapped some time after the end of the war. This was c/n 1726 ex NC13344, CF-TBA and RCAF 7655 before becoming DZ203 with the TRE at Defford. It was was finally scrapped in August 1947 at No 34 MU, Sleap, reportedly after being damaged in its hangar at Defford during winter storms in late in 1946." There is a book written about DZ203 which I have on order, but it is shipping from the UK and has not yet arrived. "Top Secret Boeing" by Bob Shaw.

This famous Boeing 247D NC13369 c/n 1953 was flown by Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn in the 1934 MacRobertson race from England to Australia as '57' and came in second. It had been modified with extra fuel tanks. Currently displayed in the Hall of Air Transportation at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC with United Air Lines colors and registration as NC13369 on its right fuselage and wing and as NR257Y with MacRobertson Race markings on its left side.

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