Documentary 1952 Boeing KC-97 "Flying Ambulance"

Location
Talent, Oregon (far from the madding crowd)
Name
Miguel Tejada-Flores
This relatively ancient Boeing airplane, built in 1952 and dubbed 'the Flying Ambulance', was used alternately as a troop transport vehicle, a cargo carrier, and a flying hospital, for both wounded soldiers and casualties. I'm fairly ignorant about aviation history but seeing it - like an ancient, hulking, landbound mechanical dinosaur, in the spot where it now sits permanently outside the Medford, Oregon airport - made me turn around and drive back for a closer look. It is walled off behind protective fencing, but I happened to have my E-P5 with me, so...

Here is the nose of the aircraft---

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And here, a detail of one wing and one of the huge propellers---

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Part of the blurry out-of-focus metal fencing became part of the next shot--

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And finally a detail of the landing wheel, at the front of the plane---

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It may be a cliché, but 'they don't make 'em like this anymore'.
 
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