Taking a risk with this one. Not sure if it's on topic... Though it might be fun to answer some "mission specific" questions. So long as people used facts instead of, you know, pure opinion.
I'm a bit of a photographer and I keep thinking it would be fun to try and do some shots aloft. Only trick is, I'm not sure what kind of plane I would want to use to get those pictures done. I'd have to rent the plane and the pilot and I'd like to keep the price down as best as possible... So ...
@voretaq7 Well, I'm trying to work cheap, so my guess is the only one I can afford is one where I'm going to be inside of it the whole time. As far as what to photograph, I tend to really like natural features, so I was hoping to drop down near some hills and get some cliff side shots you can't really get from any other angle. Might also be fun to try and get some good shots of skyscrapers...though they're really aren't a lot around here to be fair.
I will admit, had I bit of money and the know how, I'd love to try and get some wildlife shots from the air, of herds of beasts. I like those kind of shots :).
10 May 1911: Second Lieutenant George Edward Maurice Kelly, Signal Corps, United States Army, was killed during his primary pilot qualification flight at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Kelly, an officer of the 30th Infantry, had been sent to San Diego, California, in January 1911 as one of three U.S. Army officers to attend Glenn H. Curtiss’ Curtiss […] The post 10 May 1911 appeared firs…
10 May 1927: At 3:55 p.m., PST, Charles A. Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis lifted off from Rockwell Field on North Island, San Diego, California, for their record-setting overnight flight to St. Louis, Missouri. The new Ryan NYP, N-X-211, had been ready and all the flight tests complete since 4 May. Lindbergh had completed the navigational […] The post 10 May 1927 appeared first on…
In 1930, aviation pioneer Louis Charles Joseph Blériot established the Blériot Trophy, to be awarded to an aviator who demonstrated flight at a speed of 2,000 kilometers per hour (1,242.742 miles per hour) for 30 minutes. The technology to accomplish this was three decades in the future. On 10 May 1961, a U.S. Air Force/Convair B-58A-10-CF […] The post 10 May 1961 appeared first on This …
I'm a bit of a photographer and I keep thinking it would be fun to try and do some shots aloft. Only trick is, I'm not sure what kind of plane I would want to use to get those pictures done. I'd have to rent the plane and the pilot and I'd like to keep the price down as best as possible... So ...
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