that's one gynormous engine! Is this a fisheye as well?

 

Yeah, the photos I uploaded today were all taken with a 10.5mm fisheye lens during the same walk-around. It's certainly a fun lens but could get overdone in a hurry.

 

U guys use the GE's or the PW's?

 

UAL has Pratts. At least that's what the big sticker on the nacelle says

Those engines have one of the most unique (and cool) howls when they taxi past.

 

And inside too!

YouTube - Seoul Takeoff - United 777 - Great Engine Sound

 

It must be out of oil cause I can't see any drips

 

I like the 57 RR engine sound.... amazing.

YouTube - 757 Fly by Then Vertical

 

I haven't heard that since my Marine Corps days - in the CH-46 if it wasn't leaking it really was empty! I'd bet the DC-6 resembles that remark too!

 

Yep - with a radial I am always very leery if I don't see a nice puddle of Texas Tea underneath.

There was a guy in Iowa - Byron Godsperson(sp?). Anyway, he owned a company called Byron's Originals which made models and stuff. He always put on a neat airshow with the models every year - we are talking large scale type stuff. Anyway, he invited some guys to bring their airplanes one year - a Stinson SR8E Reliant, a Staggerwing, a Waco UPF-7, and my Grandpa took his Howard DGA. His hanger floor was really nice - had large globes painted on it with lines representing ocean voyages of famous explorers, etc. They pushed the airplanes in, and Grandpa started looking for a drip-pan for his machine. Didn't have any, so they were all worried that with Two P&W R-985's, a Wright R-975, and the 220hp Continental that it would be a nasty mess on the beautiful hanger floor in the morning. Next morning they get to the hanger - not a drop, from any of the airplanes, is on the floor. I didn't see this personally so even though my Grandpa told me I still don't believe it.