If you're Richard Branson, you fly in some odd aircraft

Found on https://www.facebook.com/marc.tudeau?fref=photo

ran when parked... Spanish variant of the Messerschmitt, looking for a new home.

last used in a 1965 movie, and now ready to make the current owners wealthy as hell.

Images from http://www.platinumfighters.com/#!ha-1112-m1l/c12zi  via  http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/stop-press-barn-finds-sale-license-built-messerschmitt-109g.html 

the Air Mail of 1926

The Hughes H1, the last privately built air speed record holder, 1935. All since have been military

It set a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record across the United States.

The H-1 Racer was the last aircraft built by a private individual to set the world speed record; every aircraft to hold the honor since has been a military design. The H-1 first flew in 1935 and promptly broke the world landplane speed record with Hughes at the controls, clocking 352 mph (566 km/h) averaged over four timed passes.

Found on http://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2013/07/get-load-of-this.html

I can't recall if I've posted these before

Boeing B-314 Flying Boat

Peashooters

Coast Guard

this wasn't labeled but I wouldn't be surprised if that's Sikorsky, or some actor looking very serious for a detective show. It's been confirmed to be Igor Sikorsky

B-17

all from http://cetaceous.tumblr.com/

Not often you see an airplane being moved on a car

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute

Maiden Detroit... clever name, with an interesting and notable story

See, they were racing boats before they were making airplanes, and with the customary way of calling ships and planes in the female vernacular, but having to come up with a new way of doing that since Gar Wood had already named his racing boat Miss Detroit, it was only possible to call the Stout Metal Aeroplane Co airplane with a Liberty Engine airplanes "Maiden" as it was a clever pun for the city it was manufactured in as well as a female term.

Photo and info from http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/pimagb17.htm

A good story about the pioneers of airplanes involving the Maiden Detroit:
 It was a great day when we first took the plane out to Selfridge for its trial flights. The new field al Ford's was not ready yet. It was early spring and ice was still on the lake. Walter Lees was the test pilot. He took off against a light wind and headed out across the lake. Then, something happened. A couple of dips and down he came, landing on the ice which was fortunately thick enough to hold.
     It took us ten minutes to run out to where the ship stood on the ice and find what was the matter. Walter was furious.
     The windshield had blown in against his control wheel and he had to push the celluloid back in place with his foot before he could free the controls to land. Windshields, from then on, were made much stronger.
     A few days later he took off again---this time over land.
     Frost in the carburetor brought him down once more---in a swamp! All was safe, but the ship had to be taken apart to get it out on dry land again.

Ford later bought the Stout Metal Aeroplane company, and evolved the above into Tri Motor airplanes  http://www.nifc.gov/safety/mann_gulch/organization/equipment/docs/Evergreen_Ford_Tri_Motor_%20Aircraft_and_Crew_Information.pdf

Johnson's Ranch and trading post on the Rio Grande, from 1929 to 1940, also had a small landing strip

The Johnson Ranch airfield was the first permanent installation by the Air Corps in the lower Big Bend. It was distinct from other airfields in the area in that it was neither an auxiliary nor emergency field. It was established solely due to its strategic location, where combat troops and aircraft could be deployed in case of a border emergency. It was also unique in that the ranch house became the airfield headquarters, and Elmo Johnson—with neither rank or authority—provided a quaint civilian dominance over the field's operations.

The closure of the Johnson's Ranch airfield ended an era of military aviation. The era of the members of the “order of the white scarf”—those who built America’s aerial armada, trained the pilots, and led them to victory in World War II—was forever past. The jet age Air Force that followed bore scant resemblance to the Army Air Corps that established Johnson's Ranch.

photo and info from http://www.nps.gov/bibe/historyculture/johnsonsranch.htm

the airplane is a DeHaviland, and was the first to land at the Johnson's

1931 engine location prototype and unusual bracing from front wings to rear aileron

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/?fref=nf

designed in the end of the 1950's built in the early 1960's and still are about the most high tech, and extreme condition aircraft ever made.. the A-12 Roadrunner Squadron

Storm Bringer sent me the photo from the website http://lavisionrealdelmundo.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-dreamland-det-3-afftc-lo-que.html#!  which gives the history of Area 51, and Groom Lake, and of course, the special aircraft that were stationed there

posted because it has 10 engines. That'll do

Found on http://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2014/01/ten-engines-count-em.html