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LOL I was only in my 30s then. I've gotten around a lot more since then.
And I believe it!
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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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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.
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.
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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!
Great story and wonderful photos.
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I don't know if it would have made any difference.
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No? I don't think I would be comfortable on a plane with a pilot on his first time out with it.
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Could be the Spaarne maybe? It's hard to tell from this angle.
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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
If he has a tail-dragger endorsement and is current to carry passengers, it's fine. Especially if he has time-in-type (he has flown that type of plane before). They all fly pretty much the same, but they may handle differently on the ground.
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Crossing the shore on the way to Amsterdam
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This looks great.
Up until WW2, most planes had a tailwheel or skid. Manufacturers started putting the third wheel on the front of the plane during WW2. The older planes have what is called "conventional gear" because it was most commonly used. Now, "nose-gear" planes are the most common type, but the old ones are still called "conventional gear" or "tail-draggers". The nose-gear (tricycle gear) planes are much easier to handle on the ground, especially during take-off and landing compared to conventional gear. Conventional gear planes have most of the mass behind the main wheels, so they want to turn so the mass (the tail) is in the front, causing ground-loops. Tricycle gear is more stable so they handle more easily on the ground. Conventional gear planes are considered to require more skill, although they fly just the same as tricycle gear planes. The photography equivalent is someone who does a panning image of a plane with everything sharp except for the propellor, which is ideally imaged as an entire disk.You say that as if I would know what that means!
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This is about landing gear, I think. Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for the explanation, Jack. I learned something!
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