A rare bird:this Thomas Morse S4 is the real McCoy- all original- plus whatever little bits she might have picked up being resurrected every 25 years or so since 1918. Used to fly at ORA, but that was before my day.
I really like this bike: a 1913 (!) Excelsior. Excelsior became the Schwinn Bicycle Company in 1931. Love the leather belt drive!
A very intact 1904 Pierce Stanhope, with a single-cylinder engine. Never seen this one running; I'd imagine everyone's afraid to mess with that engine.
You can see that people have been violating the "no touch" rule, but the handprints in the dust also show that all they did was lay their open hand on it gently.
Hmmmm... interesting. But not surprising. It's a nice little flivver.
I forgot to jot down the info on this wheel, which I think is new here. It's something I've heard about, but not seen before. The idea here is that the suspension is built into the wheel. Probably not quite effective enough for cars and airplanes, so it never really caught on, but on low-G worlds like the Moon this kind of "sprung" wheel has proven perfect for several vehicles.
A terrific-looking display model of a Lockheed (covers mouth and mumbles) Electrasomethingor other... perfect except for... can you see it?
No, that's not a collapsing Big Top circus tent or the wreck of a clipper ship... it is, in fact, an airplane. All of that... stuff is a 1909-built Voisin-based aircraft from Pennsylvania. The original Voisins used a wood frame; thig guy used chromoly tubing. It's no wonder it only flew one year... although I'd like to see it try again.
It was made for a 50 or 60-hp V8 which the builder designed.
It was restored by Cole Palen and his band of merry men after being in storage for almost 70 years... strictly for static display. Some day when they have it hauled out to the field I may be able to photograph all of it at once...
Next: part 6!
