Boeing 80A

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Boeing 80A-1 NC224M ‘City of Auburn’, the only surviving Boeing 80, flown by Boeing Air Transport on its San Francisco–Chicago mail and passenger route, later a freighter in Alaska, recovered from an Anchorage dump in 1960 and restored for The Museum of Flight, Seattle: Boeing’s three-engined biplane airliner of 1928, with three Pratt & Whitney Hornet radials (one in the nose, two between the wings), a deep slab-sided fuselage with a ribbed metal nose, an enclosed cockpit, a cabin for eighteen passengers, a triple-fin tail and a fixed tailwheel undercarriage: a deep green nose and light grey rear fuselage, a cream window band edged in green and orange, ‘City of Auburn’ in orange script and the Boeing Air Transport emblem on the nose, ‘UNITED AIR LINES’ on the rear fuselage, BOEING / NC / 224M on the rudder and U.S. MAIL / C.A.M. 18 on the fin, orange upper-wing surfaces and aluminium elsewhere with orange leading-edge trim, bare engines with aluminium exhaust collectors and silver two-bladed propellers with orange tips, as photographed at the museum (no Boeing 80 is in a UK museum; shape from a Model 80 three-view checked against photographs of the 80A-1, with the three-fin tail from photographs; bracing wires and engine mounts are simplified and small stencils are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 370 models · download .glb (1.4 MB) · Plate 59 in The Hangar