OHTM Air Show
I spent the day at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) soaking up the sun and getting my jollies off watching the show. If you're ever in Maine in the summer, drop in on this place -- near Rockland -- on the weekend. There's always flying of antique aircraft going on then, even if there's not an aerobatic display happening. (FYI: That one's usually on the last weekend in July.)
This is Rob Holland in his Ultimate 20-300 biplane, by far the best aerobatic performance I've seen in a long, long time. At times, he's not even flying, he's tumbling through space.
This is a Chinese trainer called a Nanchang CJ6A. Not exactly what I would call absolutely beautiful airplane, but it was extremely graceful in the air.
A rare day, indeed. This was the fifth or sixth time I've been out to Owl's Head and this is the only time I've seen them fly the Sopwith Pup. This particular plane is a replica, but is powered by an original LeRhone rotary engine! What a beautiful ship. The "smoke" trailing from the engine is not a mechanical problem, but is unburnt castor oil used to lubricate the engine. (FYI, that's one of the reasons the old pilots always wore those cool-looking scarves, to wipe the castor oil off their goggles so they could see -- that and it reduced the chafing from their jacket collars whipping around on their necks.)
I have always had the hots for this airplane -- the Vought F4U Corsair. This particular one is the night-fighter version of the F4U-5 with cylindrical radar dome on the starboard wing. (For those of you who may remember Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, the WWII series about the Black Sheep Squadron led by Pappy Boyington, I happened to be at the Oxnard Airport in California one day and got to take pictures of four of their Corsairs as they took off from a refueling stop during a filming. Talk about being on Cloud Nine!)
This is Rob Holland in his Ultimate 20-300 biplane, by far the best aerobatic performance I've seen in a long, long time. At times, he's not even flying, he's tumbling through space.
This is a Chinese trainer called a Nanchang CJ6A. Not exactly what I would call absolutely beautiful airplane, but it was extremely graceful in the air.
A rare day, indeed. This was the fifth or sixth time I've been out to Owl's Head and this is the only time I've seen them fly the Sopwith Pup. This particular plane is a replica, but is powered by an original LeRhone rotary engine! What a beautiful ship. The "smoke" trailing from the engine is not a mechanical problem, but is unburnt castor oil used to lubricate the engine. (FYI, that's one of the reasons the old pilots always wore those cool-looking scarves, to wipe the castor oil off their goggles so they could see -- that and it reduced the chafing from their jacket collars whipping around on their necks.)
I have always had the hots for this airplane -- the Vought F4U Corsair. This particular one is the night-fighter version of the F4U-5 with cylindrical radar dome on the starboard wing. (For those of you who may remember Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, the WWII series about the Black Sheep Squadron led by Pappy Boyington, I happened to be at the Oxnard Airport in California one day and got to take pictures of four of their Corsairs as they took off from a refueling stop during a filming. Talk about being on Cloud Nine!)
posted by Highroad at 6:21 PM
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I have a picture of Col.Fisher's A1E In new camo paint taken with an old Petri FT SLR. It was at Cam Rahn Bay being retired and shipped home. I have some shots of Gatlinburg Ten. that I am posting. I love your camera is it the DSC-H5. I have the Konica Minolta Z6.
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