Vintage Aircraft

[kena]

Hughes H-4

Biomed- what was this series shot with...Great tones!
Any post processing ?

 

[biomed]

Biomed- what was this series shot with...Great tones!
Any post processing ?

I used a GX7 with a couple of different lenses. The photo of the Hughes Hercules (spruce goose) was taken with the 7-14/4. Post processing with unsharp mask, a bit of contrast tweaking and then split toned in LR5.

 

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[DominikDUK]

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Very nice. What plane's engine nacelle is this if you don't mind me asking. A B52 maybe.

 

[daveleo]

@ David Hughes (posting #248)

David, where is this ??

Do you know what that first little plane is ? Love the skid pipes in front of the wheels!

 

[JoeV]

ICBM MIRV reentry vehicles, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & Industry in Albuquerque.

I've visited this museum repeatedly over the years. It's a bit disconcerting, and also refreshing, to see these once gleaming tools of destruction now collecting dust in the New Mexico desert.

~Joe

 

[JoeV]

Front view of Mark 17 weapon. Weight: 21 tons. Yield: 10-15 megatons. Air Force Bomarc cruise missile in background.
~Joe

 

[JoeV]

This B52 was used on numerous high-yield thermonuclear air-dropped weapons tests in the south Pacific, during the 1950s and early 1960s.

~Joe

 

[Dektol Dan]

A Couple More

A Couple More

B-17:

 

[filmtwit]

The unknown fuselage.
seriously if you can identify it, you'd rock!
What ever it is, it's a recon version.

 

[chris000]

The unknown fuselage.
seriously if you can identify it, you'd rock!
What ever it is, it's a recon version.

McDonnell F2 'Banshee'

 

[biomed]

Very nice. What plane's engine nacelle is this if you don't mind me asking. A B52 maybe.

B47

Mike

 

[filmtwit]

Engine intake and nose don't match up to the Banshee.
The Banshee's nose is far rounder and pointer and the wings are just behind the canopy.

McDonnell F2 'Banshee'

 

[Addy101]

McDonnell F2 'Banshee'

No way - looking at pictures the Banshee had a different kind of canopy. This is a RF84F Thunderflash.
Wikipedia on the (R)F84F

 

[filmtwit]

Addy, many many thanks!

 

[KoNickon]

McDonnell F2 'Banshee'

I hope this is a restoration project and not just an airframe that's too far gone.

 

[kshapero]

Sailabration210 by Vince.Lupo, on Flickr

Wow what a great shot

 

[kshapero]

Cockpit of the last remaining B-29.