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WAAAM! These antique aircraft and autos can actually drive and fly

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Stepping inside the WAAAM is like stepping back in time. Parts of this Curtiss Model D date back to 1910. Others are newer, like 1912…
Stepping inside the WAAAM is like stepping back in time. Parts of this Curtiss Model D date back to 1910. Others are newer, like 1912 and 1914. Like nearly every vehicle in the museum, it’s still flyable.
For more info about this museum and the many antique aircraft and automobiles within, check out Rare and fabulous flying machines of fabric and wood at WAAAM.
This beautiful bird is a Slingsby T.13 Petrel, easily one of the most elegant aircraft I’ve ever seen. After an extensive restoration, this glider flew again in 2017,78 years after it was first built.
On the left is an extremely rare Command-Aire 3C3-T, believed to be the only flying example of the trainer version, and one of only five left of the type that’s flyable in the world.
The blue aircraft is an Alexander Eaglerock Longwing, from 1928. This aircraft was fitted with a Curtiss OX-5 engine with only 90 hp. The design uses the same wing panel size, so the lower wing is wider than the upper wing by the width of the fuselage, which is rare.
On the left, the Waco 10, aka the GXE. On the right is the related, but higher-powered and slightly newer, DSO. The DSO is the only airworthy example and is almost completely original.
This is the only airworthy Boeing Model 40C, and the oldest Boeing aircraft still flying.
The C variant had a larger cabin and seating for four.
Top speed is around 128 mph (206 km/h) thanks to a high-powered (for the era) 525 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engine.
This Stearman M-2 Speedmail spent 50 years in Teslin Lake in British Columbia. What an impressive restoration. I bet it looks as good now as it did when new, 90 years ago.
Interspersed throughout this first hangar, and in higher density in a hangar you’ll see later, are antique and classic cars, like this 1921 Ford Model T “pickup” that was converted from a Roadster.
Behind is a Stearman 4D Jr Speedmail, the smaller brother to the M-2 you saw earlier.
Most aircraft of the 20s were still largely wood and fabric to save weight, but a few started to show where aircraft designs were headed. The Hamilton H-47, which first flew in 1928, was one of the earliest all-metal airplanes. This is the second oldest Boeing aircraft still flying (after the 40C you saw earlier).
These seats blow my mind. The H-47 had 2 crew and up to six passengers.
The big 1935 Packard Twelve.
The 7.3L V12 produced 175 horsepower.

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