How post-processing/rescue have progressed. Took this pic five years ago in poor light & it was mess. One of these days, the only image we won't be able to save will be when we forgot to remove the lens cap.
Looks like I'm going to this year's Dayton Airshow, providing weather holds up. I loaned a friend a camera for six weeks, so they bought me a photo pit pass. I'll go after work (if I can't beg for the day off)
I go in at 4AM, and once we're done with packages and mail, we're sent home (we meaning the non-career employees that aren't guaranteed any set time) . Normally that means I'm done by 9AM.
Friday evening is a parade, but I've never been. Starts at 7PM but traffic supposedly starts getting bad at 3PM. Interferes with my bedtime, too
ELinder wrote:
I'm tempted. You'll go after work? Is there an evening show?
I live in CT but never really made it to see the C-47s gathered last weekend other than a quick peek from across the airport. I was supposed to make a jump out of another C-47 not going to Normandy, but it got cancelled. Only got some shots on the ground...
Did you forget about me showing up for the aircraft moves in my scrubs, coming straight from working the 7pm-7am shift? Good thing they were quick drying, the grass was pretty damp.
Now I just wake up at 1AM.
ELinder wrote:
Yikes, you really are a NightOwl Cat.
I was hired to photograph a private event today at Dallas Love Field and Houston Hobby, with the new, Pilatus PC-24 jet. Once we had the event at Love Field, I got to fly in the jet down to Houston.
While we were on the ramp at Houston Hobby, this bird came in.
I'll post a shot of the PC-24 later, it is a cool aircraft and I couldn't believe how quickly we were airborne out of Love Field. Quite impressive and a very nice and quiet interior.
I was fishing around in old emails last night and came across this one my dad sent me about 4 years ago:
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Mid-Air Airplane Repair (1924)
THAT'S CORRECT! ... NO PARACHUTE
If you want the job done right, give it to a woman.
Hard to believe that stunts such as these used to be accomplished frequently. Does anyone recall the air-to-air refueling of one biplane to another using a long hose? Those people had to be either fearless or just “plane crazy.”
This woman has more guts than a sausage factory. Take a look at this film. Fabulous footage, although grainy due to time and bad equipment in those days compared to today, but what nerve this gal had.
Gladys Ingles was a member of a barnstorming troupe called the 13 Black Cats in the 1920s. Ingles was a wing walker; in this film, she shows her fearlessness in classic barnstorming fashion to save an airplane that has lost one of its main wheels.
Ingles is shown with a replacement wheel being strapped to her back and then off she goes as "Up She Goes," a duet from the era, provides the soundtrack. In the video, Ingles transfers herself from the rescue plane to the one missing the main landing gear tire.
She then expertly works herself down to the undercarriage only a few feet from a spinning prop. It's certainly a feat many mechanics wouldn't even try on the ground with the engine running.
She died at age 82. (Be sure to read the paragraph below the image!)
Sorry about my relative absence, been a little crazy lately. Chandler and I flew over to Legend for a day to have the rest of the Cub’s ADS-B capability installed, along with a new Garmin GPS , then back to back assignments including the Honor Flight at AFW in the pouring rain, two architectural assignments and a corporate gig for a new client. That new client, Stanley Black & Decker (Dewalt/Proto/Irwin/Bostich/Craftsman/MAC Tools and several more.......whew!) had a series of events yesterday that had me going from 6am until the close of day, it was a very happy day. They are building a new, huge manufacturing facility at Alliance Texas that will employ hundreds, we did a ribbon cutting for their new 1.2M sq ft logistics facility in the same area which employs 500 new folks for starters. All of this arrives in North Texas as manufacturing jobs coming back to America from China..........you know, something that “was never going to happen”. Spent the day with the great team at Stanley, from the CEO to the gentleman who turns the lights on, wonderful people with a wonderful spirit. I’m looking forward to where this relationship will take us in the coming years. Based upon what I heard yesterday you can expect the Cratsman tool line, very near DOA, to come back with a vengeance both in quality and quantity. Certainly I love a great assignment, but when that assignment is steeped in great news for my country, The Lone Star and my client, well that’s just the icing on the cake.
Oh yeah, then there was a big joint birthday hangar party for Chandler and I last Sunday afternoon/evening that my daughter threw repleat with Hutchins BBQ a zillion decorations and balloons, a display of photographs of Chandler and me doing aviation things from the time he was a little guy. The party ended with a series of sunset Cub flights in some of the most wonderful air we’ve had for a while, best birthday I can recall. The weather was a perfection, that night the clouds rolled in and dumped another couple of inches of rain.
Here are some shots from Sun n Fun.
