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I'm organizing family stuff, going through photos.
This is a photo that my father gave me quite a while back. It's a Boeing 247, probably United.
I asked him what the little doors in front of each window were for.
His answer- outside air vent controlled by each passenger.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Anyone remember vent windows on front side windows in passenger cars :-)
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
My mother had a 56 Chevy when I was in high school that I drove when I would have a date. Those little vent windows were air conditioning in the summer.
OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...
I put the first coat of paint on my current project 'slant canopy' Williams Brothers Boeing 247 just about 3 hrs. ago! Very fine and timely photo! Much appreciated....
Greg
George Lewis:
You're welcome. Wish I had more. Pictures like this one remind us how the "panel line" conversation is kind of silly, at least for older aircraft.
GMorrison You're welcome. Wish I had more. Pictures like this one remind us how the "panel line" conversation is kind of silly, at least for older aircraft.
And obviously no need to sand off those pesky rivets....
But the panel lines will look much different from a scale focusing distance (unless you use a strong magnifying glass to look at a model 247).
fotofrank My mother had a 56 Chevy when I was in high school that I drove when I would have a date. Those little vent windows were air conditioning in the summer.
Our 68 Cadillac Calais has them! I remember my second car, a 70 Bonneville, didn't have them. That car was HOT inside when the A/C needed charging.
Many years ago, when coming home from a dive trip in Honduras, we took a twin-engine turboprop back from La Ceiba to Tegucigalpa. I think it was an old Russian turboprop (a LOT of signage was written in Cyrillic). We sat on the front row, so had front row seats into the cockpit. The pilots kept the two vent windows open during the entire trip, occasionally sticking a hand out to cach more air. =8-0
It seemed to be the 'air conditioning' for the aircraft. I bet our front row seats were just about the best in the plane.
Gene Beaird,Pearland, Texas
G. Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
Our current project car has them, a ‘59 El Camino...
In the pattern: Scale Shipyard's 1/48 Balao Class Sub! leaning out the list...NOT! Ha, added to it again - Viper MkVii, 1/32 THUD & F-15J plus a weekend madness build!
Don Stauffer Anyone remember vent windows on front side windows in passenger cars :-)
Absolutely! I think the first car we got that didn't have them was an AMC Hornet Sportabout in 1976, when I was 12. Before that, every car we had, had them, as did my dad's first truck, an old Ford. I forget the model, but it also had wooden slats bolted to a frame, to form the cargo bed. High beam switch was a foot switch, too.
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