Aircraft and Aviation Theme

photoflyer · Apr 11, 2020

Oh you're killing me! I have a new Canon 100 to 400 L zoom and I was going to take it to Sun n Fun at which there would have been numerous mustangs to shoot!

Jeff15 · May 2, 2020

Our local Air Ambulance..

Jeff G · May 2, 2020

Nice, especially with the clouds

Jeff15 · May 2, 2020

Thanks...

photoflyer · May 3, 2020

From the DC flyover yesterday.

Jeff15 · May 5, 2020

Mustang

Gardyloo · May 12, 2020

Blackbird

Vapor cone

zulu42 · Jun 4, 2020

photoflyer · Jun 6, 2020

I see Air Force 1 (the 747) go over the house regularly. The C-17 as well. The C-40 is a new one.

jcdeboever · Jun 7, 2020

Jeff15 · Jun 17, 2020

Cable inspection

Gardyloo · Jun 17, 2020

Gardyloo · Aug 4, 2020

Scanning some old slides and found this one of my commuter plane throughout the mid-1970s in the Aleutians. This Grumman Goose was operated by Reeve Aleutian Airways, then by PenAir under contract to RAA. The image is from King Cove, Alaska. We'd catch the Goose at Cold Bay and shuttle to King Cove, around 2o minutes away.

This aircraft crashed in bad weather around 4 years later, killing both the pilot and sole passenger. I walked away from a crash in this plane at the Dutch Harbor airport a few months after this picture was taken; we ground looped at DUT when one of the landing gear struts failed during a hard landing.

jcdeboever · Aug 4, 2020

Gardyloo said:
Scanning some old slides and found this one of my commuter plane throughout the mid-1970s in the Aleutians. This Grumman Goose was operated by Reeve Aleutian Airways, then by PenAir under contract to RAA. The image is from King Cove, Alaska. We'd catch the Goose at Cold Bay and shuttle to King Cove, around 2o minutes away.

This aircraft crashed in bad weather around 4 years later, killing both the pilot and sole passenger. I walked away from a crash in this plane at the Dutch Harbor airport a few months after this picture was taken; we ground looped at DUT when one of the landing gear struts failed during a hard landing.

Wow, crazy. Glad you were ok. Should have played the lottery the next day but shoot, it probably wasn't around in them days.