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This series of photos was taken at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in Rantoul, Illinois. I chose to take pictures of fragments of the planes because trying to fit an entire plane into the frame of a camera is pretty hard, especially within the confines of a crowded hangar.
The museum was wonderful! It is housed in what used to be the Chanute Air Force base, which was operational from 1917 to 1993. There are over 40 planes there, as well as numerous flight simulators (nonfunctional, but still cool to see), an exhibit highlighting the 99th Pursuit Squadron (the first active unit of the Tuskegee Airmen), and four Minuteman ICBM maintenance training silos. In fact, until its decommission in 1993, the Air Force used Chanute for all of its Minuteman missile maintenance training. There was a lot of other stuff that I'm forgetting, but if you get a chance, go visit, it's absolutely worth your time.
An old propellor propped against a wall in Caernarfon harbour. I liked the contrast of the white of the wall and the blacks of the propellor and its shadow.
Didn't expect much out of the quick shots i took of planes flying overhead, but the propellers on this one looked cool.
For safety, the nails are covered with cloth (stage or bookbinding) tape and the propeller is made from paperboard (that is, a cereal box).
Reference
"Flying Propeller" from Hand Craft Projects for School and Home Shops, Book 2 by Frank I. Solar
Propeller and Rudder of steamship
(W) 16.3 cm x ( L) 12 cm
Glass: 2 pieces of broken glass plate on top right corner. Emulsion: silver tarnishing, finger prints, scratch marks, yellowing, missing emulsion and binder on image and along edges
The shutter captures an interesting blurred freeze of the jet engine on this small commuter Jet from Phoenix to Aspen.
3D stereo pair (cross view). To view in 3D, cross your eyes until you can see three images, then concentrate on the middle one. Anaglyph version is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/29811507@N02/4189300275/in/set-7215...
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the time of 14 days.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel afloat. However, her protracted construction and high cost had left her owners in a difficult financial position, and they were forced out of business in 1846 after the ship was stranded by a navigational error.
Sold for salvage and repaired, Great Britain carried thousands of immigrants to Australia until converted to sail in 1881. Three years later, she was retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, Great Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where she was built. Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, she is an award-winning visitor attraction and museum ship in Bristol Harbour, with 150,000–170,000 visitors annually.
Giant mosquito hanging out on the window hoping for breakfast from the occupants inside (iPhone photo)
My friend got his new propeller today. It is now mounted and works perfect.
Do not remember if he said "thank you", he normally does not! :-)
He is happy and his boat runs well.