Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now that airplanes have appeared in the LUG it might be a good time to disgorge my file of aircraft pictures. During my years of working in the military/industrial complex I spent most of my time on futuristic aircraft that thankfully were never used in anger. In fact most were cancelled before they became operational. These included the Avro CF 105, the XB 70 Valkyrie bomber and it's smaller sibling, the XF 108 Rapier fighter, and the Dynasoar space plane, the distant ancestor of the Space Shuttle. Look these up in Wikipedia to get an idea of what they were. I'm not a pilot. My total hands on experience with flying is soloing in a Piper Cub and about 10 hours of helicopter training in the Army. But at the time I was a systems engineer and was considered adept at merging the concerns of airframe designers, electronics engineers and flight crew. Still, I was fascinated with aircraft, especially old planes, and took pictures whenever I had the chance. Which was not too often during my working days because of security restrictions. So most of my pics were made adventitiously. Here is the first of the series. An abandoned amphibian that I stumbled upon when biking near my home. It is on the shore in an old seaplane landing area in the small Hudson River town of Verplanck. I was told that some aviation enthusiasts intend to fix it up and fly it again. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+1.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+2.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+3.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+4.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+5.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Seaplane+6.jpg.html Larry Z