 | NORTHEAST USA 1999-2000 |
| NORTHEAST USA 1999-2000 |
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NASSAU COUNTY - LONG ISLAND
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But why does one county in the USA merit a particular page all to itself? Well, that was because there was so much of interest (at least, to me there was) to see.
Police cars, Nassau County Long Island New York State
Police cars and police car pound with abandoned and seized cars Nassau County Long Island New York State
wrecked wreckage of police cars Nassau County Long Island New York State
police car with what looks like bullet holes to me, Nassau County, Long Island, New York State
A dinky little police three wheel tow truck, Nassau County, Long Island, New York State
aeroplanes, or airplanes, parked up on an industrial estate Nassau County Long Island New York State
Replica of the aeroplane (or airplane) Spirit of St Louis in a private museum in Nassau County, Long Island, New York State.
Lindbergh had a considerable amount of input into the design of the aeroplane yet he described it on take-off as "being like an overloaded truck".
One replica - the "Paul Mantz" replica - (I don't know if it was this one) was flown by Charles Masefield who described it as "an absolute heap. It's completely unstable, controls unco-ordinated, ailerons enormously heavy, elevator terribly light, rudder totally ineffective, you can't see where you are going, the engine vibrates like mad and there are hardly any instruments" (Well, dont mince your words - tell us how it REALLY is).w
Even Mantz was obliged to add that "it was absolutely hideous to fly and (he) could not understand how they had gone so far wrong when they built the replica"
Mind you, the final word must surely go to Lindbergh himself who flew it a few years later. "Do you know?" he said "I had forgotten just how nice that little aeroplane was! You've got it exactly right."
And I reckon Lindbergh had got it exactly right too. During World War I the British turned out thousands of reconnaissance aircraft called the Be2 and they were designed to be totally and absolutely stable so as to give the best reconnaissance platform. However this perfect stability was their own downfall as when they were attacked by a German fighter they were impossible to manoeuvre and so they were shot down in their thousands.
Most of the high scores of the major German aces were in Be2s and their derivatives - the "Fokker Fodder" - and this gave rise to the legend of the "20-minuters" - the average life of a British Royal Flying Corps pilot in the air over the Western Front being just 20 minutes. How much of this though was due to the stubborn British refusal to equip their pilots with parachutes (later in the war German pilots had them) for fear that they would "desert their machines" is a good question. If they weren't killed by the machine gun fire they could either burn to death or leap to oblivion.
With The Spirit of St Louis Lindbergh had to fly it every minute that it was in the air, and this was probably what prevented him falling asleep at the controls during his 33-hour flight.
3 cylinder rotary aircraft engine in a private museum in Nassau County, Long Island, New York State
box kite aeroplane (or airplane)replica in a private museum in Nassau County, Long Island, New York State.
Abandoned derelict steam railway engine with a bit of a train on an industrial estate in Nassau County, Long Island, New York State. The section of track here is isolated, so the only way this locomotive is coming out of here is in pieces. And it looks like someone has already made a start.
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