Don't see many aircraft portraits in LF. Here's a start. Sinar P2 8 x 10, Apo Sinaron 480mm
Peter
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Don't see many aircraft portraits in LF. Here's a start. Sinar P2 8 x 10, Apo Sinaron 480mm
Peter
That's an amazing photo Peter, well done. I like it very much, particularly the tight composition and amazing sky.
Is that a scanned negative or print?
Peter, nicely done. Lockheed Electra 12-A or Beech 18?
Very nice, to say the least.
Thanks, gentlemen. That's a scanned negative on FP4+, developed in DDX at N-2. It's a tilt exercise, with a narrow focal wedge running along the entire dorsal part of the hull and tail. The engines are a bit below, and are soft.
Mark, good spotting. 1937 Lockheed L12A catching evening rays.
Peter
I think I posted this already on a different thread. This was taken with a Speed Graphic at the Schellevile airport in the SF Bay area.
I've shot quite a bit FROM an airplane, being a private pilot, but all of that so far as been not only "tiny format" but digital. I may take up the 35mm gear but I don't imagine doing any LF while flying (as pilot.)
None of the small format digitals I've shot are particularly artistic but a few might be interesting. I may post them in the "safe haven for tiny formats" thread, or at least get them on my Flickr to link.
My instructor, who soloed in 1947 and has been flying ever since, used to fly Electras. :) But then again, he used to fly almost everything.
Roger, If you can find the illustrations, take a look at what Steichen and others shot hand held from Curtis Jenny's and other platforms during WWI. Big Bertha's with 4x5/8x10 material. Look to be about thirty inches long and operated by a pistol grip triggering system underneath. This one is a Graflex.
Like so much else in photography, aerial work started with large format and devolved.
Oh yeah, it's do-able, just more trouble than I care for. I also think in those cases the photographers weren't also the pilots. The planes I fly don't (for the most part) have auto pilots. It can even be a challenge to fold a chart or the like in a bit of turbulence. I'd rather not be fooling with a Graphic. My Pentax LX just maybe! ;)
I took a Pacemaker Speed Graphic to an airshow. I took twenty photographs. Many more photographs were taking of me taking photographs.
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There it is – up in the sky!
I’ve never shot a plane, but I often find them in my photos.
Especially when I use tight-grained films.
With even greater magnification, you can sometimes see the pilot.
Tachi 4x5
Schneider XL 110mm/5.6
Polaroid Type 55
Epson 4990/Epson Scan
My friend Brian's '42 Boeing Stearman Biplane.
very cool! as soon as i get my paws on something LF, i'll contribute a fair bit to this thread.
that first photo by peter, AMAZING. looking forward to more in here.
Walkies!! Sinar P2 8 x 10, Grandagon 200mm, f32, FP4+
Taken with a TF (tiny format) SLR (Pentax 110 SLR) on Verichrome Pan. The galley of the restaurant is upstairs in the fuselage of the Super G.
Okay, I found this on the web. More detail than I was aware of:
the aircraft was purchased by Jim Flannery in August 1967 for use as a cocktail lounge atop his restaurant in Penndel, Pennsylvania. N1005C opened for business above “Jim Flannery’s Restaurant” in August 1968 and for 29 years it was a local landmark along U.S. Route 1 in Penndel. All good things must come to an end and in July 1997 she was hoisted back down to earth to make room for an Amoco service station. Instead of scrapping the airplane, the enlightened folks at Amoco donated the aircraft to the AMC Museum and she was moved by road to Dover on October 25, 1997. The aircraft was stored disassembled at the museum until July 2003, when she was reassembled using the engines, props and undercarriage salvaged from NC-121K BuNo 141292. These components had been discarded when N1005C was converted to a cocktail lounge back in 1968.
I thought that's what it was!
I ate there once as a kid and always awed at it when we drove by. I grew up in Bensalem which borders Penndel where "The Airplane" as it was known stood. Sad day when they took it down. It's been gone long enough now that it's been forgotten.
Thanks for posting the pic!
http://www.pctype.com/rcphoto/test/AirForceOne_800.jpg
http://www.pctype.com/rcphoto/test/PimaAirSpace001.jpg
http://www.pctype.com/rcphoto/test/PimaAirSpace2001.jpg
All from Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ, March, 2008.
4x5 Arca Swiss, Fuji 210, TMax 100 (BW) Fuji Velvia 100 (color)
I flew on a Constellation once in 1956 to go for a job interview upon university graduation. It was quite an experience to use the lav and sit there with a HUGE round window watching clouds drifting by. That was around the time pressurized fuselages were experiencing "blowouts" from metal fatigue, because the aircraft industry hadn't yet developed the technology to minimize those failures. Nowadays, those failures are quite rare. But I shudder to recall the visit to the lav, because there was no seat belt on the throne to keep one from jettisoning if that window blew.
My father flew Connies in the fifties and would take me along sometimes. Things were less formal back then. My mother said that I was in the cockpit once when one of the engines needed to be shut down. Pretty common occurrence with those big radials. Apparently I ran back into the passenger area yelling "daddy broke the engine". Sadly, they are both gone so I can't verify this conclusively but I hope it's true.
I'm old enough to have flown on Connies as a passenger. ;) As I recall, they were very noisy and shook like the dickens. :eek: :)
Robert, from my Dad - "Enjoyed the site with the Connie. When they mentioned getting engines from the old WV2, 141292 which was the last one in use, it was one I flew in quite a lot."
My Dad flew as flight engineer in his early days in the Navy. Most of the flights were from Argentia Newfoundland to Iceland and the Azores. I believe they looked for Russian subs. Such a small world - you post an old picture you took of a plane in the 70's and the engines came off a plane my Dad flew in the 60's.
I'd like you to meet my little friend.
8x10, 200mm, fp4+
In early 1959 I flew in a MATS version of the Constellation from the Oakland, Calif. area to Clark AFB in the Philippines. The seats were arranged so that the passengers faced to the rear of the aircraft. It took 48 hours to reach Clark AFB with 10 hour legs between the islands across the Pacific. We spent about 4 to 5 days at Clark then off we flew to Taiwan where I spent the next 15 months. Howard
Flew to Japan for a three year tour in 1958 on a MATS Connie. I was 6 years old, and my dad was in SAC. I got to ride in the cockpit. Thanks for the memories!
I got to ride in a connie when Eastern Airlines flew a collection of four engined airliners on their Shuttle up and down the eastern seaboard back in the early 60's
They were beautiful birds. One of my favorite chatzkys is a huge metal model of an Eir Lingus Super Constellation in a fitted wooden case which I was given for helping to clean out the store room of a travel agency (remember those?)
I found out a pilot friend is also into 4x5 photography, of which I had no idea until recently. Since we're both pilots we've been talking about asking some of our airplane owning friends about photographing their birds (well, my friend is an owner but there's nothing all that photogenic about yet another Cherokee 140, though I imagine we could work something up.)
B-17 cockpit.
Nice shot of the B17 cockpit. Is it available larger?
Peter
RCAF CF-100 sitting at the aviation museum in Surrey, BC. 8x10 HP5 contact on Lodima.
A "P.S." to my earlier post, #30. When we left the Philippines enroute to Taiwan we flew on an "Air America" aircraft. We thought it was American Airlines but what did an unsophisticated 23 yr old know back in early 1959. Later we learned that Air America was operated by the CIA. Howard
Just a typical aircraft pic but it makes me feel like flying.
Sinar 8 x 10, fp4+, ApoSironar S 240mm @f32
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Here's a de Havilland Tiger Moth at the British Columbia Aviation Museum in Sidney, BC. You can tell it's the Canadian version because it has a canopy to protect the pilot from the vicious Saskatchewan winter.
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Does anyone remember the framed B&W prints that used to be in the lobby of the Toronto Airport Hilton? Very mechanical pics of props and engines and the like. I remember seeing them some years ago and tried to find out who shot them, but no one at the hotel knew. I think they were removed as part of remodeling, but am not sure.
Let's resurrect this.
Sinar P2, FP4+, Rodie 240mm af F32, 7' tilt, Epson scan of the 8 x 10, cropped and tweaked in PS
good !
is this going to fly to EU ?
I'll be glad to have a try !!!
Long retired now, by far the most satisfying time of my entire professional career as an aerospace structural engineer occurred from 1959 through 1963 while working on the XB-70 program at North American Aviation, Inc. It was a time when I’d get up on a Saturday morning (day off) and head in to work just for joy of it and work in relative solitude. My work was mostly in the crew compartment where the airframe used both high strength steel and titanium alloys because of the high temperatures (450F) involved at Mach 3. Aluminum was incapable of withstanding that much heat and was used sparingly in the interiors where the pilots were able to function in a shirt-sleeve environment. The key to that thermal gradient was use of a “transpirational wall” (thin sheet with tiny perforations) that covered the inboard chords of the frames. Much testing was necessary for the design of the jettisonable escape hatches above the pilots who were seated in capsules-on-rails that would seal them in (along with their environment) just prior to jettison via self-contained rocket. Ejection sequences, programmed, took place automatically once selected; pilot and co-pilot could eject separately if necessary. This system was designed for ejection at Mach 3 and 70,000 ft. After the capsules cleared the aircraft, telescoping booms would extend to stabilize the capsules from tumbling until the parachutes opened. Each capsule had in inflatable bag on its bottom to cushion the impact of a landing on terra firma or for flotation during a water landing. It was June 8, 1966 when I was participating in an Ansel Adams workshop in Yosemite that I was shocked to read the headline that the second of the two prototype airplanes suffered a mid-air collision with a chase plane and crashed on the desert floor during a slow-speed photo-op flight. I remember that day as if it happened just yesterday. The pilot was able to eject safely and survived – a harrowing experience as related in an interview to Time Magazine – but he was unable, due to the lateral G’s from the flat spin, to pull the co-pilot back into his capsule so he could eject him and he perished with the plane. Very, very sad.
For those interested, here is a relatively superficial story of the development of the airplane and the aftermath, with lots of pictures.
http://unrealaircraft.com/classics/xb70.php
If you want this resurrected, I may only contribute one of my older images:
Chamonix 5×8", Schneider Xenar 210mm f:4.5, 13×18cm Fomapan 100 @ EI 64, Developed in R09 (Rodinal variant)
Jiri
Sorry about the B-24 which was a 4-engine aircraft, but that is a B-25 Mitchell. Photos are great, however!
Resurrection time ! :)
I was at the local port photographing something completely different, when all of a sudden a large helicopter from the Danish Defence (or maybe it was from the fleet idk) landed a few hundred meters from me. A few minutes later an ambulance came rushing up to it, and a stretcher was being moved from the ambulance to the helicopter.
It all happened very fast and I had barely time to swing the camera around, refocus and press the shutter, before it was taking off again.
(please ignore the dust)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8...507bbef3_z.jpg
Helicopter by DagenErHvid, on Flickr
Wow, what a fantastic job that must have been. I was just watching the documentary on the XB-70, and then last night watched For All Mankind. We really had some things going in the aerospace world back in the 50s-70s. I worked with the Stealth as a training manager for several years, and some "other" programs.