Boeing B377 Stratocruiser

LOL. Are you back in the USSR? You don't know how lucky you are, boy...

Dad was in flight performance at UAL in 1953 on until he retired in 2008.

They got a bunch of Stratoblasters from Northwest and ended up selling them to BOAC when the Comets fell into the sea. 

We flew to Honolulu in 1959. I was 3.

The first class flight in the Boeing took off at 0900 from SFO

The coach flight in a DC-7 took off at 1100 and landed in the tail wash of the Strat in HNL.

But the big problem was a loss of two flights out to HNL. One was a bombing, the second was mysterious.

and then a flight had to ditch at the meteiorlogical ship half way out.

I built their Cessna 172, and barely have enough weight in it- it will rock back on its tail with the slightest draft or vibration of a table. Yet the main gear splays outward when you set it down, and I worry about it breaking!

Very nice Boeing!

You are so right Don. I am working on 3 Minicraft kits right now and besides being tail heavy they shorted the plastic in the main gear. The gear legs are so thin I don't think they will support even the plane without any weight in the nose.

Very nice build!

Mike

That is one problem with many Minicraft kits.  They seem to splurge on the plastic for rear fuselage and tail pieces, so the kits need a ton of weight.  Fortunately I decided to build the 377 as an in-flight model to show off my method of making "turning" propellers.  That eliminates the problem.

I scanned the BOAC decals for the same reason, Don. My big tip with this build is to add plenty of weight inside the nose area, to avoid the finished model sitting on its tail. The kit recommends 1/2 oz up front extra weight, but that isn't enough. I added almost 1oz and it's still a bit tail happy if it gets bumped.

I am building the same kit, but the Northwest Airlines version.  Unfortunately, the decals shattered when I tried to apply them.  Fortunately I had scanned the decals first, as is my habit these days.  But some of the decals need to be on white decal film and I am out, so I have to order more, and that has caused me to take it off the bench for awhile.

I flew into Miami  beach boac,couldn't get to bed last night

Nicely done.

You can sure see where they the super guppy super structures... Great work!!!

The cockpits of those things are huge. There's a KC-97(military version of the 377) down in Colorado Springs that's been turned into a restaurant. you can sit in the plane and eat, and the cockpit is accessible for you to check out or for your kids to play in. I could almost fit my bedroom in that cockpit if it was stripped to the deck.

 Here's a video on YouTube that shows what I mean:

  www.youtube.com/watch

   Your model looks great.

Chris

That is a very nice looking model.very well done