Northrop Delta ?
 

Hi all

Does anyone have a photo of the surviving 1934 Delta that is supposedly airworthy at Atchison Airport , Kansas ?

TIA
Dave

1934 nocando - but 1945? or this?

Doing better now 1941?

Umm, none of those is a Delta, BOAC. This is however:

http://www.1940airterminal.org/image...thropdelta.gif

and what's more it is the very one (NC13777) extant in Kansas albeit a 64-year old photo.

PT - doh! There was me thinking we were talking wing shape! I'll leave the links there for interest.

Preferred the flying wings links :O but 60 year old BOAC Deltas a reasonablly cool as well.

Sorry to appear stupid, but could someone explain how the picture of NC13777 above is a delta? I always thought it was to do with the wing shape.

LJ

If you have a look via google you will see 'Delta' is part of a range of 'alphabetical' models from Alpha thorough to Gamma.

Not a lot of people know that.................

That's a poor photo but was all Google turned up for the airframe in question. For a huge collection of Delta photos (inter alia), go here.

On a related subject, does anybody have any gen on the Flight Test accident to N9M-1? I've only recently heard about it, but suspect that it might be related to something I'm working on now.

G

If it was to do with PIO, didn't either Yeager or Hoover refer to it in their autobiography?

Treadders

I'm pretty certain from conversations with people around at the time, together with a nodding acquaintance with delta aircraft handling, that it probably wasn't PIO. I don't think that there's anything in Yeager's book, but I'll see if I can dig out anything by Bob Hoover.

G

I've got Hoover's book at home - I''ll try and find the reference this evening...

Ghengis, checked Hoover's book - sorry, I was a bit off target there.

The PIOs he mentions were experienced by several pilots during take-off and he figured before his first flight that he had it sussed - then produced an absolute whopper himself! Flew away and tried a few maneouvers, flew back and made up for his embarrassment by demonstrating loops and rolls, which apparently the techies has said couldn't (or perhaps shoudln't) be flown. Chuck Yeager and Jack Ridley flew it next and their take offs were perfect

So obviously not the accident you refer to...

If in any case you'd like me to scan in the relevent text and PM to you, I'll bring t'book t'work t'morrow.

By the way, anyone else seen Steve Hinton demonstrate Planes of Fame's N-9M? Magic...