Sentimental Journey II

[Skip Souza]

This B-17G is visiting our airport. I visited it with my grandson. He did not want to tanke the tour so I had to satisfy myself with a walk around the outside. Here is a sampling of photos I took.
I used my wife's kit lens and kept it at f/9 or tighter.
Slightly processed and cropped w/Picasa2.

[Skip Souza]

Two more.

[Skip Souza]

Guns everywhere.

[Carzee]

Number 3 for me.
If you PShopped off the concrete, say a straight crop thru the wing line, and you did some cloning to cut off aerodrome lights etc, and then if you motion blurred the props... it'd look like a pan shot, from the rear, of the bird in flight..

[Skip Souza]

Number 3 for me.
If you PShopped off the concrete, say a straight crop thru the wing line, and you did some cloning to cut off aerodrome lights etc, and then if you motion blurred the props... it'd look like a pan shot, from the rear, of the bird in flight..
I can see it the way you described it but my PS skills blow, why do you think I use Picasa2? :lol: :rolleyes: :confused: :lol:
I'll talk to the wife about it. She is really good. Of course I keep practicing so I might give it a try. Mostly I just try to get a good shot of what is really there.
Thanks for looking and commenting.

[Carzee]

The thing is - its those fluffy hi alt looking clouds that will make it work.

[Andy_T]

Skip, great images!

#2 and #4 do it for me :D

Best regards,
Andy

[Jetmech1]

Nice pictures. That is a niece piece of history. Only a couple left flying.

[Ballen Photo]

These are GREAT Skip! I'm glad you decided to add a part II. :D
-Bruce

[Belmondo]

Whenever I look at one of these, I'm amazed at how far aviation advanced in such a short time. The first B-17 prototype, the Boeing Model 299, flew in 1935. That's 70 years ago, and only 32 years after the Wright brothers first flew at Kittyhawk.

The biggest advances since then have been primarily in propulsion and aerodynamics, but airframe construction hasn't changed a lot.

These are excellent shots, Skip. Thanks for posting them.

[Skip Souza]

Andy, glad you liked them. #2 is my favorite also.

Jetmech1, Bruce, glad you liked them, yes they are a piece of history.

Tom, I also marvel at the advance of aviation techonolgy. As a comparison, there is a B-17 shell and an F-4 Phantom parked together at the Tulare airport. The B-17 was a big gun for its day. A couple of decades the Phantom carried much more ordinance and was flown by one man instead of a whole air crew.
We've come a long way, baby.

[Carzee]

We've come a long way, baby.

In north Australia, outside the Darwin airport, there is a 'small' Aviation Museum begun when the people of the USA donated a B-52. Well, it needed a shed around it... and then they stashed other planes under it and around it. I looked it over real good... its amazing. That B-52 had been retired after clocking zillions of hours on duty - who knows how many missions. I was a Sputnik baby, and that bird, those crews, flew thru the Cold War covering me and millions like me...

[KeithS]

Here's a shot from my backyard in March. It was arriving for the Luke AFB airshow.

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