Neanderpundit

Actually a side view of a previous one.

When I can return and go back to the museum proper I will take more pictures.

At my feet, when I was taking a picture of the much bigger bird. Looked like it had flown into something.

I may never be anything of a photographer, but I really like this picture, partially because it perfectly demonstrates three point perspective. It’s very unusual to be able to get in this sort of position, they placed the plane in a spot where you can just stand on a little rise and take this picture. Click to embiggenate.

The plan is a C-97G Stratofreighter. Tail number 52-0898. Four 3200 horsepower 28 cylinder Pratt Whitney Wasp engines. It’s at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in Rantoul, IL. I didn’t go in the museum, I just took this picture over a fence. I will go back, and visit the museum proper, now that I know that it’s there.