In the news this morning..."A 37-year-old Kansas woman was killed after she backed into a plane's spinning propeller while trying to take photos, officials said."
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WTH !
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Love to see the "drivers" of these magnificient planes! Lean and mean!!!!!!!!! "We were soldiers once and young....."
Great capture Jim!
Dan
"The company's (Boeing) new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, who began serving in that role in August, said on a quarterly call with analysts on Wednesday that he wants Boeing to downscale the number of programs in its portfolio.
"We're better off doing less and doing it better than doing more and not doing it well," Ortberg said on the call, though he didn't specifically reference Boeing's space division."
He is talking about selling off Boeing Aerospace. This is a big deal in many ways. Years ago, I think it was Dan Golden (NASA administrator) who said he expected commercial space and commercial off the shelf components to replace the design and development performed by NASA contractors for space. I guess SpaceX has accelerated this idea.
Boeing is in a bad financial position in both their airplane company and space division. The strike is really taking a toll on Boeing. I remember when I was in the USAF in 1970 we had several older guys come into our unit. They were in their 30's but were their rank was E-4. I asked one of the old guys why he came back into the USAF at such a low rank. He said he left Boeing because they lost the C-5 program and Boeing was shutting down. (Boeing got their act together by turning their C-5 program into the 747.) He told me there was a sign on the main highway going south out of the Everett plant "Would the last guy out please turn off the lights.".
I am sure that Boeing, as the largest and only US manufacturer of full size commercial airliners, would be considered to large to fail by our gov't. Look for Boeing to sneak in to take the next few gov't aircraft contracts.
NASA on the other hand is maybe on its way out. I suspect they may become something similar to the FAA dealing with near Earth orbits and enforcing treaties for planet exploration.
Fun dusk shoot with a Skyraider. I got a couple of exposures in before I grabbed a flashlight and light painted it for the throng of photographers in attendance.............
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Fun dusk shoot with a Skyraider. I got a couple of exposures in before I grabbed a flashlight and light painted it for the throng of photographers in attendance.............
The A1 Skyraider was my(infantry soldier) most valuable CAS, close air support, in Vietnam! It was always a beautiful sound and sight to hear and see for engagement support!
Slow enough to see any ground action for more precise "on target" and signals yet fast enough to dodge "Uncle Ho's men" from bringing her down!
Fantastic image Jim! Kudos for you on "painting" this!
Dan
So my grandkids flew into RDU for a visit over the weekend and I went to pick them up....with the camera in the back seat. I captured their flight on final approach, and was able to get a shot of my 2 year old grandson looking out the window towards the parking lot I was set up in.
