I had the privilege of being on this plane when it was doing rides at the New Smyrna Beach airport a couple years ago.

Great plane from a great era in aviation...

Took the Waco over when it was in Fort Worth a few years back. Had fun getting pictures of these two old birds together.

I rode around in this plane about 15 years ago. It was fun flying over our town which produced some of the most expensive cars in the world when this plane was new. Neat old stuff.

Dunno if EAA is still doing it ... ~15 years ago, they had weekends @ OSH that would mix 1-day of ground school (lite) on Saturday with flying (PIC) the Trimotor on Sunday. Only 0.2. We stayed at EAA's on-site "hotel" @ Pioneer Field.

The airplane is a pig. I loved it. Learned a lot.

- Adverse yaw is waaay worse than any sailplane I've flown. Crank in ~20 degree bank and the nose immediately goes ~20 degrees in the other direction. RUDDER!

- Control harmony? Forget about it.

- Rudder forces with left:right engine out? Egad! I ended-up with both feet on one rudder bar. (Notice the itty bitty vertical stab?)

A friend of mine is pretty involved in the EAA program. Just this summer they got another Tri-Motor airworthy that had been in the Evergreen Museum on static display for many years. I can't remember at the moment if this is the second or third in their fleet.

Jason

Thanks to Cody Welch, I was lucky enough to have flown right seat in this EAA Tri-Motor some years back at OSH. Talk about taking a step back in time

If that was a at Spinks, then I was there with my kiddos, and remember seeing your bird there, too.

I'm one of those weird guys that likes the big uglies the most. The C-130 is my favorite plane of all time, I think the DC-3 is beautiful, and the Tri-motor was something I had just hoped to at least see in person. I would have counted myself very lucky to see it fly. So it was amazing to be able to ride in it!

Course, now I'm getting greedy and want to fly right seat the next time it comes through (missed it a couple of weeks ago).

Kudos to EAA for getting these birds flying and letting people see them!

Last weekend at KGTU.

It looks like a flying storage shed by today's standards but is so simple and rugged too.

The start up of all three engines was as smooth as I've ever heard a radial sound.

And there's a JetPROP in the background

What no love for the C-119? Dad flew navigator on these things when I was a kid. Maybe it's a little too pretty?

I...love... The trimotor...

Hope to get my act together and do a ride or right seat session...
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Warren

Good catch. Quite the contrast to CK's photo above.

I got a ride in a Trimotor decades ago at the Wings and Wheels museum in South Carolina. That airplane is now on display at the aviation museum in San Diego. The two things I remember most are the incredible noise level in the cabin and both pilots pulling on the Johnson bar to wrestle the breast around on the ground.

Same here, rode right seat with Cody at Osh, what an uncoordinating flying aircraft.