1927 Ryan M-2 ... Plus

[@leobollar8822]

How can we replace craftsmen like you? A true artisan. Great tour!

[@JNEAircraft]

Thank You for your kind words. We've talked about possibly providing some "lost arts" seminars for interested individuals to attend at some point in the future ... but until John stops taking on projects, I simply don't know where he will find the time to add seminars to his schedule!

[@davidholmgren659]

WOW!....VERY COOL! Good luck with the project. It looks like you are right man to do it.

[@JNEAircraft]

Thank You!

[@donniecole3472]

A real treasure chest.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

Fantastic thank you very much!

[@JNEAircraft]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@54kasey]

Really neat! Thanks for the tour. I just finished building a rubber powered M-1 so I was particularly interested :).

[@jimhelms1542]

Lots of cool stuff . Thanks for sharing

[@JNEAircraft]

Thanks for watching!

[@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you both for recording and posting this. Frank Tallman, M-1 history was really neat. I'm wondering if they used this M-1 in the filming of Jimmy Stewart's "Spirit of St. Louis" movie? I think the replica for that movie (the Spirit) is in the Henry Ford Dearborn museum.

[@JNEAircraft]

Glad you enjoyed it. This is actually an M-2 that had once belonged to Frank Tallman. We don't have any information that would lead us to believe it WAS used in the "Spirit of St. Louis" movie starring Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. There are actually 4-different replicas that were used to film that movie, as you note, there is the one that is on display in the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI ... another is on display in the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York on Long Island (not far from where Roosevelt Field was located ~ The field Lindbergh took off from) ... another is in the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis, Missouri ... and the fourth one is currently on display at the Wings of the North Air Museum in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. That last one used to hang in the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport until they took it down when they remodeled the concourse in which it hung.

[@cookingwithcuyandotherfuns6238]

Thank you---such a special aircraft.