I remember the Lockheed Electra. After a couple of crashes where the wings fell off, they fixed them by drilling holes in the wings. Reduced those vibrations. We always thought it was the 'tear here' principle. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: > The P-3 is a military version of the Lockheed Electra, which was in > commercial passenger service in the late 1950s-'60's. Their popularity > suffered when harmonic vibrations caused the wings to fall off a few of them. > > So, they're rather long in the tooth, and parts are a problem. They're being > replaced with a modified 737 (designated P-8). > > Rick > > On Feb 3, 2014, at 23:58 , David Mann wrote: > >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:24 pm, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Good stuff there Larry, I'm a fan of older aircraft! Any idea what the >>> crude modification to the >>> P3's propellers were designed to do? >> >> Maybe they broke off and they've been duct-taped back on :D >> >> The P3 Orion is one of the great workhorses of our air force, it's used a >> lot for naval search & rescue as well as coastal patrol. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
