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Apparently the 747 had a "father"...

9,673 CarsonG1017  6.8 years ago

(from Wikipedia) The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a large transport aircraft powered by four radial engines. It was a Douglas DC-4-based air ferry developed by Freddie Laker's Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), with a capacity of 25 passengers and five cars, loaded at the front. Huh, neat. I actually first saw this about 5 minutes ago when I was looking at pictures of the dc 5. I know someone will be like, "hey, that's not the 747's father!". I know that. It just looks a lot similar to a 747 and it has piston engines.

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    9,673 CarsonG1017

    @MrSilverWolf ikr?

    6.8 years ago
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    @Carsong1017 that's the only one? Interesting

    6.8 years ago
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    the 747 had a tumor.

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    9,673 CarsonG1017

    @MrSilverWolf 2 minutes later this is the only one I found

    6.8 years ago
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    9,673 CarsonG1017

    @MrSilverWolf huh, I'll have to look into that.

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    @Carsong1017 I thought I saw one like last year sometime and that was it lol

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    9,673 CarsonG1017

    @Audiobotguy03 does finger guns

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    9,673 CarsonG1017

    @MrSilverWolf I've never even seen one here.

    6.8 years ago
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    I've always imagined what an ATL-98 Carvair,powered by four Rolls Royce "Dart" turboprop engines would look like.

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    Also I do believe that this plane one of the more rare planes on the site

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    36.2k DbE

    I didn’t know squidward had a private jet

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    XD

    6.8 years ago