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lonestarflight · 3 months

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Boeing C-75 parked on the tarmac of an airfield.

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The luxurious interior of a TWA Boeing 307 Stratoliner - 1940.

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carbone14 · 2 years

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner de la Pan American Airways (Pan Am)

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nocternalrandomness · 8 months

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Boeing Model 307 at Paris Airport - 20 April 1964

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner of the Pan American Airlines

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A TWA Lockheed Constellation, and a TWA Boeing 307 Stratoliner VIDEO 🎥 https://youtu.be/R7AOf02jvv4

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pacificeagles · 2 years

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner

In 1935 with design work for the B-17 well underway, Boeing decided to create a civilian airliner from the same basic design. Borrowing the wings, engines, landing gear and tail from the B-17 and marrying them to a new cylindrical fuselage designed to be pressurised, the new Model 307 promised much better performance than existing airliners. It could cruise at an altitude of 20,000ft, unlike contemporary planes that had to remain below 15,000ft. With the plane having the ability to fly higher than most weather systems, Boeing gave it the name “Stratoliner”.

Despite the advances promised by the 307, orders were relatively few. The first plane was destroyed when it crashed during a demonstration flight for Dutch airline KLM. Pan Am ordered two Stratoliners and later an additional four, and Trans World Airlines five. The first delivery was to the eccentric tycoon and adventurer Howard Hughes, who bought it for a round-the-world record attempt that was abandoned when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Pan Am took delivery of just four 307s before the war put an end to civilian aircraft production but TWA received all five that they ordered. These were named after native American tribes – Apache, Comanche, Navajo, Cherokee and Zuni.

With the outbreak of war in 1941 Pan Am’s 307s remained nominally in civilian service but were under the direction of the Army Air Forces’ Air Transport Command. These were assigned to fly on South American routes for the AAF. The five TWA planes were bought by the AAF and received the military designation C-75 but were flown by their original TWA crews under contract. These were assigned to ATC and initially flew two transatlantic routes: the northern route from Gander to Prestwick, and the southern one from Natal to Accra in the south.

For the first year of the war the C-75s were the only planes capable of nonstop transatlantic flight, although they had the pressurization gear removed and additional fuel tanks installed to make these flights more comfortable. These aircraft regularly flew ‘top brass’ across the Atlantic, including members of the Chiefs of Staff and Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt’s personal aide. A C-75 was also dispatched to China to collect the Doolittle raiders after all of their B-25s were lost.

In 1944 with sufficient numbers of purpose-built military transports available, the C-75s were reconditioned and sold back to TWA. They continued to serve the civilian market for years after the war, although seven were lost to accidents. One 307 serving with the French airline Aigle Azur may have been accidentally shot down by anti-aircraft fire during the Vietnam War in 1965.

Boeing C-75 Stratoliner Specifications

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Boeing C-75 StratolinerRoleTransportCrew5: Pilot, co-pilot, engineer, 2 cabin crewPowerplant4x Pratt & Whitney R-1820-G102A (1,100hp)Speed215mph (cruise) 241mph (max)Ceiling23,300ftRange1,750 miles (internal)ArmamentOrdnanceDimensions74ft 4in (length) 107ft 0in (wingspan) 20ft 10in (height)Wing Area1486 sq.ft.Weight30,000lb (empty) 45,000lb (gross) Number produced5

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ardumo · 7 months

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner de la Pan American Airways

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inkintheinternet · 7 months

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A Comprehensive Guide to Pressure

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

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It is one of the fundamental forces that we live with and is used in scientific inventions.

We seldom feel it but it plays a major part in the world.

In this article I'm going to concentrate on the ways in which pressure effects us and the world.

Human body: Blood pressure in the body is the force of the blood against the vessel walls as it makes each cardiac cycle to deliver oxygen to the organs and tissue.

High blood pressure (Hypertension) can damage many organs and be fatal.

Pressure is highest close to the heart and lower in other parts.

Now to consider the pressure outside the body, which is atmospheric pressure.

We live at the bottom of the atmosphere, all that air has weight which is called atmospheric pressure. On every square inch of Earth's surface is 14.7 pounds of air pressure pushing down.

Yet it doesnt crush us and we don't feel any pressure. That is because air is a fluid.

If you stretch your arm before you and observe. The air is pushing on your hand from every direction and this is why the force of atmospheric pressure cancel each other out.

If there was pressure on one side and not the other, the other side would feel the air pressure pushing on it. This is how jars are factory sealed for example. The lid is held tightly on the glass because inside the jar is a vacuum.

In Earth's weather there is High Pressure Systems and Low Pressure Systems.

On a weather map red L is for LP and blue H is for HP.

These systems are because Earth is not equally heated by the sun, and because of its rotation and the Corialis effect.

Pressure on the Earth's surface varies, and it is effected by air density, temperature, and volume. Air temperature is measured in Kelvin.

Atmospheric scientists use math equations to explain how pressure, density, temperature, and volume are connected. The Constant in the Equations is the Universal Gas Constant and the equations are called the Ideal Gas Law.

Where air pressure is high the temperature is low, and as temperature increases air pressure gets lower.

Now if we are to go higher literally in altitude. Like when flying on a plane, many passengers might have experienced Airplane Ear or Ear Barotrauma, it is when the air pressure inside the ear and the cabin pressure inside the plane are not equal.

The Eustachian Tube inside the ear gets flattened because of the pressure change during ascend or descend. So the safe way to pop your ear is to yawn or swallow to get air into the ear which will equalise the pressure.

When it comes to pressure and flight I'm not done. I know a little more I can write about.

In the 1930s Boeing introduced a special commercial plane Stratoliner 307 which had pressurised cabins. The technology hasnt changed since but has become more precise with the advent of electronic computerised sensors. This pressurised air in the cabins is regulated to gradually increase and decrease as the plane ascends and descends.

The air used is from the jet engine compressors. When the engines pull in air for combustion it's more than it needs for the plane to fly. So volumes of the air are taken into the plane system for air conditioning and cabin pressurisation.

Now I have a little more knowledge about flight and pressure I can write about.

There are many mechanisms and engineering skills that go into making aircrafts. But it is still unknown how planes really fly in full detail.

What is known are leading theories of the Bernoulli Principle and Newton's Third Law of Motion.

In his 1738 book Hydrodynamica, Daniel Bernoulli, wrote that a fluid when moving fast has less pressure than when moving slow. Air is not liquid but it is considered a fluid. So the fast moving air created by the aircrafts is said to be why they fly. Again pressure is the theory.

Newton's Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Air has mass therefore there is air pressure, and again flight is attributed to the airfoil and jet engines that create lift using the Third Law.

Basically when the jet engines start the compressors pull enormous amounts of air, this air is then compressed and sent to the combustion chamber where it is sprayed with fuel and ignited. As it exits the nozzle thrust is made. The pressurised air has high combustion qualities.

Now if we are to go literally even higher in a rocket. It too uses combustion for take off but is engineered different from aircrafts.

What happens to the human body in microgravity which is in low-Earth orbit. Astronauts may develope many health complications in space. Micrpgravity on the International Space Station, may specifically cause vision loss as blood flows towards the head from the rest of the body.

A NASA reports says Astronauts wear compression cuffs on the thighs to counter the fluid change, a negative-pressure device worn to draw blood away from the head to the lower extremities of the body.

What happens if an astronaut goes out of the spacecraft into the vacuume of space without a spacesuit. There is no atmospheric pressure and the oxygen in the lungs would expand causing the lungs to rupture. The fluids in the body would boil as it is pressure that sets the boiling point of liquids. So the boilling point of the fluids will be lowered in the vacuume of space, and bubbles and boiling will happen as the fluids turn to gas. Medically this is called embolism.

Now let us return to earth and go into the water. What happens under the sea to body pressure. Scuba divers use compressesed air to breathe under water. It has nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases in the mixture. The nitrogen can cause Nitrogen Narcosis, making the diver disoriented and could lead to coma. Another problem is decompression illness, this is why divers should not go to altitudes like in a plane or mountains immediately after diving. The nitrogen they inhale during the dive enters the bloodstream and with the decreased pressure at altitudes may form into bubbles as it exits the body. The nitrogen will exit the body after a diver has stopped diving, but it should happen gradually not suddenly as would happen at altitudes.

In this as well we have learned how pressure effects us and how it is used

It is pressure again that makes a boat float.

The air pressure inside the boat pushes against the water, when it is greater than the weight of the boat it will float.

Arjuwan Lakkdawala is an author and independent journalist. Twitter/Instagram: Spellrainia email: [email protected]

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sdgtent · 10 months

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Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases Local Legend 10: Boeing 307 Stratoliner

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lonestarflight · 3 months

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Boeing C-75, militarized 307, at an airfield. Five Trans World 307s were impressed into the USAAF. The cabin pressurization was removed to save weight, and the external flap actuators replaced.

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carbone14 · 1 year

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Le dernier exemplaire du Boeing 307 Stratoliner, le Flying Clipper Cloud de la Pan American – Centre Steven F. Udvar-Hazy – Virginie – Etats-Unis – 2005

Photographe : David Lednicer

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nocternalrandomness · 2 years

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Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner

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blabbernaculum · 2 years

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner

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nelc · 5 years

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#planeboat #Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner

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