Aviation Photography

Capt_Spaulding

Another picture from the Air & Space Museum. A P-40 (Warhawk, if memory serves). In 40 years of attending airshows I've never seen one of these in the air. I hope somewhere one is still flying.

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2005 Sun-n-Fun



Nikon F4s 300 f4 AFS FILM days Fuji PROVA? Scan with Nikon ls9000

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Capt_Spaulding

Framer: Thanks. It's great to see. I was a big "Flying Tigers" enthusiast growing up. Where was this taken?

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framer

That was SUN-N-FUN 2005 Lakeland FL

Back in the good old days... FWIW I went from 1998-2008 every year and only have photos of this one in 2005.

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mustangdaren

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Image taken with D610 and a gen 1 Tamron 150-600

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Airshow

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Ton14

En route to "The Kooy Airshow" 2 Harvards ND16, these are the Dutch versions from the US Harvards T6 with minor adjustments. ND stands for Norduyn, a Dutch engineer. The Harvard is from 1936, used as a trainer.

This was a formation with the Beaver.

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Ton14

Piper PA-18 Super Cub formation

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Capt_Spaulding

Capt_Spaulding

My wife is an avid quilter. I had always wondered what the white material on Shuttles was. Turns out, it's a rather large quilt.

NSXTypeR

I thought the Space Shuttle had ceramic tiles, or is that the black stuff on the bottom of the shuttle?

Capt_Spaulding

@NSXTypeR You are correct the shuttle used ceramic tiles in many of the heat intensive applications. Here's a pic of some of them.



I had always wondered what the white material on the upper surfaces was. For me, finding out that it's a high tech (for the 1970s) quilted fabric was a surprise.

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Capt_Spaulding

I gotta tell you Photobug, I still LOVE watching and listening to those big multi row radials start. The noise of the starter itself and then the ragged cadence of the exhaust as the cylinders slowly decide to join the party. That sound itself has "danger" and "adventure" encoded into it. Add to that the cloud of oil smoke and the smell of it, and it still hits every testosterone receptor in my addled brain.

I flew from Houston to Newark and back once on a converted C-47. I was 13 or 14. The trip took hours and 3 fuel stops each way. It was one of the great events of my youth.

NSXTypeR

Capt_Spaulding said:

@NSXTypeR You are correct the shuttle used ceramic tiles in many of the heat intensive applications. Here's a pic of some of them.

I had always wondered what the white material on the upper surfaces was. For me, finding out that it's a high tech (for the 1970s) quilted fabric was a surprise.

Material usage can be very interesting in airplanes indeed. The De Havilland Mosquito was famed for using wood in its construction.

It's wonderful how vast the contributions have been in this thread! They've spanned from multiple WWII warbirds to the cutting edge of space exploration. Keep them coming.

Just so that I don't feel left out, I have a contribution of my own too.

NSXTypeR

Capt_Spaulding said:

I gotta tell you Photobug, I still LOVE watching and listening to those big multi row radials start. The noise of the starter itself and then the ragged cadence of the exhaust as the cylinders slowly decide to join the party. That sound itself has "danger" and "adventure" encoded into it. Add to that the cloud of oil smoke and the smell of it, and it still hits every testosterone receptor in my addled brain.

I flew from Houston to Newark and back once on a converted C-47. I was 13 or 14. The trip took hours and 3 fuel stops each way. It was one of the great events of my youth.

That sounds like a lot of fun for a young boy to experience. If I remember correctly, C-47s were what paratroopers leapt out of during WWII, around what time did you take this trip? Maybe the mid 50s or 60s?

I had a short conversation with a gentleman once, he grew up flying because his father was rich enough to own a plane. As a boy he used to be able to request to take a tour of the cockpit and sit in with the pilots back then. I tell you, I was born in the wrong era. You couldn't get away with stuff like that now, unfortunately.

Capt_Spaulding

My dad worked for Brown and Root. In the mid/late 60s they had a client named Texas Eastern Gas Transmission Co. The project was on Staten Island and dad made regular trips up there on Texas Eastern's corporate planes. One was a C-47 (DC-3) converted into an executive transport. I got to ride along on one of the trips. (We also made trips up there on an early model turbo prop Gulf Stream G1 (I think) and later a Gulf Stream II biz jet.)

On the C47 trip the geezers played gin and bridge for hours in the cabin and I spent most of it in the cockpit. When one of the pilots took a break I was invited to take his place. It was the coolest thing I had aver done, and may be still. Of such are dreams made (and fulfilled).

CEBlueclouds

No particular attachment to airplanes ....also not to be left out

Heathrow airport. Sept, 2015

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Capt_Spaulding said:

I gotta tell you Photobug, I still LOVE watching and listening to those big multi row radials start. The noise of the starter itself and then the ragged cadence of the exhaust as the cylinders slowly decide to join the party. That sound itself has "danger" and "adventure" encoded into it. Add to that the cloud of oil smoke and the smell of it, and it still hits every testosterone receptor in my addled brain.

I flew from Houston to Newark and back once on a converted C-47. I was 13 or 14. The trip took hours and 3 fuel stops each way. It was one of the great events of my youth.

I know where your coming from Capt_Spaulding. Watching those engines starting and the sound reminds of those days when we lived just off base and we always heard them starting and taking off...so low and so slow!