The Plane That Disappeared With Amelia Earhart | Lockheed 10 Electra

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  @RexsHangar · 3 years ago · pinned

  F.A.Q Section <br> <br>Q: Do you take aircraft requests? <br>A: I have a list of aircraft I plan to cover, but feel free to add to it with suggestions:) <br> <br>Q: Why do you use imperial measurements for some videos, and metric for others? <br>A: I do this based on country of manufacture. Imperial measurements for Britain and the U.S, metric for the rest of the world, but I include text in my videos that convert it for both. <br> <br>Q: Will you include video footage in your videos, or just photos? &nbsp; <br>A: Video footage is very expensive to licence, if I can find footage in the public domain I will try to use it, but a lot of it is hoarded by licencing studies (British Pathe, Periscope films etc). In the future I may be able to afford clips :) <br> <br>Q: Why do you sometimes feature images/screenshots from flight simulators? <br>A: Sometimes there are not a lot of photos available for certain aircraft, so I substitute this with digital images that are as accurate as possible

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  @FolgoreCZ · 3 years ago

  Fun Fact. Earhart was originally supposed to fly Model 10-A, serial no. 1091. But during the time, a Czechoslovak businessman Jan Baťa was on a business trip in Chicago, when his plane broke down. He wanted a replacement ASAP, so he bought the Electra no. 1091 and Earhart had to wait for her 10-E. Meanwhile, Baťa&apos;s Electra flew all the way to Czechoslovakia, eventually flew around the world, fled Czechoslovakia before WW2 and was sold to RCAF. After the war, it went all around the place before eventually being restored and now it&apos;s displayed back in Prague as one of the two air-worthy Electras in the world.

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  @WALTERBROADDUS · 3 years ago

  The hiring of Kelly Johnson has got to be one of the best new hire stories in history. This one grad student basically help build the biggest military contractor in the world. Just imagine if the chief engineer had decided just to keep him fetching coffee as the new guy😏☕

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  @RedcoatT · 3 years ago

  One of the most beautiful aircraft of the 30&apos;s.

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  @anthonyangeli256 · 2 years ago

  The Electra is a beautiful airplane.

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  @thekinginyellow1744 · 3 years ago

  The progress in aviation in this era always amazes me. &nbsp;The ten passenger twin engine Lockheed Electra had a gross weight of about the same as the empty weight of the single engine Republic P47D Thunderbolt just eight years later. &nbsp;I realize this is apples to oranges, but it is still amazing.

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  @808bigisland · 3 years ago

  A most aesthetically pleasing airplane

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  @deejayimm · 3 years ago

  So many beautiful planes came from that era.

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  @albertlorenzen3048 · 2 years ago

  When I was a child, 12 years old, 1949, I worked on the ice of Great Slave Lake, NWT, Canada. <br>A Lockheed Electra, and an Anson, were being used, to fly boxes of frozen fish, to the town of Hay River, NWT.<br>We had to tramp down the snow to make a runway.🎉

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  @FlightdeckClassic · 2 months ago

  gotta love the history of model 10

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  @johnkenneally4662 · 3 years ago

  Beautiful aircraft, especially for it&apos;s day. RIP Amelia and Navigator.

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  @andysvehiclehistorychannel · 3 years ago

  It has to be one of the must beautiful aircraft ever made

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