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A rendering of the new Cessna Corvalis TTX, a fixed-gear, low-wing aircraft built from composite materials.
Not as interesting to draw as the older, rivited aircraft.
Noodler's Eternal Brown ink and white Sakura gel pen in a 5"x7" Strathmore 400-series toned paper sketchpad.
01/30/05; my second air-to-air photo shoot, this digital image was taken after the session was finished with my serious (big film) camera, on our way back to the airport in San Luis Obispo, along Highway 101 approaching Santa Margarita and the Cuesta Grade from the Paso Robles-Atascadero area.
In a week or so, once the negatives are processed, I'll post the best of 30 color frames shot with the Pentax 67. This is an especially well kept Cessna 180 owned by a United Airlines Pilot. Another pilot flew my Luscombe while I sat on my knees, hunched down facing aft in the right-side seat, with the door removed. For much of the time we were in very close formation so I could use a wide angle lens (55mm for the 6x7cm format), which is more pictorally desirable for this sort of photography. At times we were close enough that I could hear the snarl of its propeller over the already high level of engine and slipstream noise.
Getting nice images of airplanes in flight is not easy, (and, yes, this one is out of focus and of fairly low resolution) especially in less than perfectly smooth air; the photo-run must be made on a heading that will provide proper lighting and the perspective must be such that the subject is shown clearly, that is, the tail section is not obscured by the wing, the registration number usually needs to be visible (as it is often a custom number for nicely kept aircraft, etc.). Also, the background must not conflict with or distract from the subject, i.e., no roads crossing under the subject, breaking up it's lines, etc., and it must be obvious that the viewer is in flight with the subject. The photographer must always strive to see the whole frame... a vital element of framing and composing is using the whole frame; cropping must be kept to a minimum (this image is full-frame-- I got lucky with the upper wing tip). Becoming fixated on the subject and failing to see the whole picture is too easy in such a dynamic situation--add to all that a little turbulence (a lot of turbulance makes this impossible), the kind that strikes just as you're tripping the shutter (this reminds me, your shutter speed must be low enough to blur the propeller but not everything else which is also moving; 125/sec, maybe 250 max--this propeller displays minimally acceptable blur) add discomfort as the circulation in your feet goes away while on tighly bended knees, difficult communications over noise (even with an intercom through headsets), cold fingers and the intricacies of unloading and loading roll-film every 10 frames... oh, and of course, avoiding collision.
A University of North Dakota Cessna 172 Skyhawk [N513ND] casting its shadow on Charlie Ramp on a beautiful Sunday morning at Grand Forks International Airport.
c/n 208B-0710.
Built 1996.
Previously registered in Panama as HP-1358APP and then in Costa Rica as TI-BAN.
Now operated by 'Aerodynamics' and based in the UK for paradropping.
Seen here launching for another drop from Sibson Airfield, Cambs, UK.
07-6-2015
I received a call this morning from an attorney friend..."Let's go have a picnic at one of my friend's cabin this evening." Ummm, "Okay!"
This is my friend's 1957 Cessna 180.
Cessna 208 'VH-YMV' of Skydive Australia with a great young pilot Kilian behind the controls waits for her last (temporary) passengers before take off from Redcliffe airport for another round of 'meatball drops'.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_152
At the National Air Force Museum of Canada; 8 Wing Trenton; Quinte West, Ontario.
Well, after talking to a flight instructor and pilot, and some of my friends who had flown Cessna's, I decided a refit was in order.
Still all of the older stuff applies.
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