Aviation Photography

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Can you smell the oil?

Capt_Spaulding

Sniff sniff. I love it. They used to use castor bean based lubricants. Those have a very distinctive smell. Uuuummm.

dissent

This would have been a more timely post a couple of days ago ...

NSXTypeR

Dissent- is that a Taiwan based aircraft based on the roundel?

Capt_Spaulding said:

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).

That's a wonderful story! I actually live in NY, that's not far from where I live.

More of that China Airlines 747.



On a side note, this is nitpicking, but I have changed the title of this thread from "Airplane" to "Aviation" photography, it is a more accurate description of what's going on here.

Photobug

+1 on Aviation thread
Two running & 2 more to start

Would you believe, taken at 55mm with a 17-55 F2.8. Really close.

Capt_Spaulding

Here's a Wright Cyclone 3350. It powered, among other aircraft, the B-29.

dissent

@ NSXTypeR - I think those are standard World War II era Republic of China air force (ie, Flying Tigers) emblems

mustangdaren

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Last of the smoke photos.

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Used this photo in Rainbow thread and it also fits here.

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Memorial Day, May 29, 2017

framer

I spent a few hours locating old aviation images I thought might be of interest.

1st one is a very small cockpit with no forward visibility.

F4s 15mm AIS f/3.5, I used a custom homemade laser rangefinder. Fuji PROVO film.



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framer

framer

This next one was taken in 2002? with a F2a using a 16mm f/3.5 AI'd lens. I also use my homemade rangefinder attached to the camera body. It was just two leveling lasers that I could prefocus a set distance. I would then bring the laser beams to a point shut them off and press the shutter.



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I used negative film of unknown type for the picture.
The aircraft was a WACO.

framer

framer

I call this one Big Mouth. Taken with a Mamiya 7, w/43mm UWA lens. It was a Fuji Transparency.



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Night time airshow. Pyrotechnics were put on a plane which did aerobatics at night. I kept the shutter open and used a ball cap over the lens and exposed the transparency several times. Taken with a Mamiya 7, 80mm lens. Scanned with a Nikon LS9000.



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You had to be a small man to fit into the turret gun position on the bottom of the plane.

framer

Another Mamiya 7 w/43mm lens photo. Scanned with the Nikon LS9000 scanner.



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framer

Capt_Spaulding

The business end of an SR-71.

Capt_Spaulding

Photobug said:

You had to be a small man to fit into the turret gun position on the bottom of the plane.

And life got exciting in a gear up landing.

Photobug

Amen. This is not where you want to be in a gear up landing.

Image the size of the piston and value in this engine.

framer

F4s w/15mm AIS f/3.5 Fuji transparency



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framer

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Tail Gunner

Capt_Spaulding

Horten Ho. 229. Perhaps the only one in existence (almost).

framer

Mamiya 7 w/43mm lens, Fuji transparency.

4 AT6's doing a barrel roll after sunset. Because of the long exposer it looks lighter than the light to the eye.



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framer