Post your "Out of Airplane Window" Photos

[fotoi]

Final approach into Frankfurt (iPhone 8).

 

[greatgrandma]

Wow. You've been around, Rosalie! Wonderful photos!

LOL I was only in my 30s then. I've gotten around a lot more since then.

 

[Darren75]

LOL I was only in my 30s then. I've gotten around a lot more since then.

And I believe it!

 

[inphoto]

Thessaloniki airport

 

[greatgrandma]

My first flight was Nov 1955 when I flew home from college for Thanksgiving. In those days they gave you cigarettes to smoke after your meal (a quarter pack of Winstons) and the only beverage was coffee. I don't have any photos of that flight, but I do have these of a flight Nov 1957- Cleveland to DCA with a stop in Pittsburgh. Starting with someone boarding in Cleveland, taking off from Cleveland, landing in Pittsburgh, waiting to take off from Pittsburgh, strip mining outside of Pittsburgh, and landing in DC. These don't appear in the order I entered them. Still Learning.

 

[Levina]

My first flight was Nov 1955 when I flew home from college for Thanksgiving. In those days they gave you cigarettes to smoke after your meal (a quarter pack of Winstons) and the only beverage was coffee. I don't have any photos of that flight, but I do have these of a flight Nov 1957- Cleveland to DCA with a stop in Pittsburgh. Starting with someone boarding in Cleveland, taking off from Cleveland, landing in Pittsburgh, waiting to take off from Pittsburgh, strip mining outside of Pittsburgh, and landing in DC. These don't appear in the order I entered them. Still Learning.

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Extraordinary pictures, Rosalie. All time documents, if that is the correct term for it in English. Wonderful!

 

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[greatgrandma]

This photo was from a plane, but not out of the window because the plane had no windows - but I think it qualifies.

On Memorial Day, we went to the Watsonville Antique Airplane Fly-in.

Every year since 1964, the antique airplane people had a ‘fly-in’ to Watsonville Municipal Airport. In 1965 or 1966, our antique automobile club local chapter volunteered to serve as shuttle transportation from the airfield to town.
I decided to write the event up for the antique automobile magazine. I wanted a photo of the whole layout, so I got permission to go up into the tower. But the angle was wrong, and I thought it would be even better to get a photo from a plane. So I asked around, and a guy said he’d take me up in a 1929 Waco biplane. He gave me a leather helmet and told me not to touch anything. I got into the front seat - we took off and circled the airport.


I took one picture.

My photo of the airfield


He asked me if I had the photo and I said Yes (although I would have liked to take more, just in case)

Photos being taken of us as we land

After we landed, he told me he’d just bought the plane and had never flown it before.

Forty years later, I put the photo up on Virtual Tourist. An intern at the airfield found it and put it on the airfield website under the impression that it was free of copyright. After I straightened them out about that, I told them they could use the photo if they gave me credit.

 

[Levina]

This photo was from a plane, but not out of the window because the plane had no windows - but I think it qualifies.

It absolutely qualifies!

On Memorial Day, we went to the Watsonville Antique Airplane Fly-in.

Every year since 1964, the antique airplane people had a ‘fly-in’ to Watsonville Municipal Airport. In 1965 or 1966, our antique automobile club local chapter volunteered to serve as shuttle transportation from the airfield to town.
I decided to write the event up for the antique automobile magazine. I wanted a photo of the whole layout, so I got permission to go up into the tower. But the angle was wrong, and I thought it would be even better to get a photo from a plane. So I asked around, and a guy said he’d take me up in a 1929 Waco biplane. He gave me a leather helmet and told me not to touch anything. I got into the front seat - we took off and circled the airport.


I took one picture.

My photo of the airfield


He asked me if I had the photo and I said Yes (although I would have liked to take more, just in case)

Photos being taken of us as we land

After we landed, he told me he’d just bought the plane and had never flown it before.

At least he told you after you had safely landed!

Forty years later, I put the photo up on Virtual Tourist. An intern at the airfield found it and put it on the airfield website under the impression that it was free of copyright. After I straightened them out about that, I told them they could use the photo if they gave me credit.

Great story and wonderful photos.

 

[greatgrandma]

At least he told you after you had safely landed.

I don't know if it would have made any difference.

 

[Levina]

I don't know if it would have made any difference.

No? I don't think I would be comfortable on a plane with a pilot on his first time out with it.

 

[Blackbird]

These are great! Not sure, but I think that's the Haarlemmermeer, going to Zwanenburg and then Schiphol.

Could be the Spaarne maybe? It's hard to tell from this angle.

 

[greatgrandma]

No? I don't think I would be comfortable on a plane with a pilot on his first time out with it.

I looked at him and decided that he probably didn't have a death wish or want to commit suicide and trusted that he could do it