Vintage Aircraft

This DC3 shot was from an assignment for a exec charter company about 20 years ago.
 

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I don't know if you'd call this vintage but it was from another annual report assignment involving the Air Force about 25 years ago. We did a had day of air to air shooting between F16's and F15's off the coast of Georgia. Hard to beat a day like this.

I need to look for some of my images of formation flight. The unfortunate thing about film is most of the images especially the best go to the client and you never get your hands on them again.
 

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Still More Color

Still More Color

M6, Zeiss 35mm 2.8, Porta

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Looks like one of the reproductions, this one in particular:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262program.htm

And this one has GE J-85 engines instead of the original's Jumo 004s. random fact! actually, a lot of German or Soviet WW2 fighters that are flying today are re-engined due to lack of parts... but the Jumo 004 had a bunch of issues so you wouldn't want to fly with that engine anyways.
 
Great Thread

Great Thread

This is a great thread. I retired a few years ago after flying 33 years for the US government. In the Marines it was a CH46 and in Customs a Citation and Blackhawk (as well as a variety of smaller planes and helos).

I just wanted to mention two flying museums which are not too well known. The first is in Santa Theresa, NM, about 15 miles west of El Paso-warbirds and vintage cars. Also, I just returned from the Oregon coast and there is a good(not great) museum in Tillanook, Oregon. It is housed in one of the last remaining wooden blimp hangars from WW2 and the hangar is as interesting as the plane collection. It would hold 9 blimps, is 1100 feet long and 200 feet high and wide. The blimp hangars were the largest wooden structures ever built.

Both locations are worth a visit.
 
Groovy

Groovy

It has the #1 on it as per your link. As an aside, when it turned from the crowd to take off, the engines baked us all, peppered us with small rocks like buckshot inhaled by the engines, and set the crowd scattering in a panic.
 
The aircraft wasn't particularly vintage, 150 Cessna, but the pilot was. The lady is "Mama Bird" Evelyn Johnson. Evelyn had just lost her medical a couple of weeks earlier due to eyesight. She was 96 and the second highest time pilot in history. She was a fixed wing instructor, helicopter instructor and FAA flight examiner. Evelyn flew till she was 96, lost a leg in a car accident and still managed an airport and FBO till she was 101. She passed away last year at 102 years old. I checked the record and Evelyn had 57,635.4 hours logged.
 

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mooge said:
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Looks like one of the reproductions, this one in particular:
http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_me262program.htm

And this one has GE J-85 engines instead of the original's Jumo 004s. random fact! actually, a lot of German or Soviet WW2 fighters that are flying today are re-engined due to lack of parts... but the Jumo 004 had a bunch of issues so you wouldn't want to fly with that engine anyways.
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I was able to see this aircraft as it was being completed at Paine Field in Everett, WA. Check out their website.

Mike
 
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Catalina PBY. Tillamook Air Museum, Oregon
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biomed said:
This must be the rumored Mossie for Paul Allen.
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That guy has some nice toys, for sure. I would love to see one of the Mosquitos -- one of the very greatest planes of WWII. (By the way, the photo shows how too high a shutter speed can make the props look like they aren't turning at all!)
 
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