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Post by nikonbob on Oct 19, 2006 22:34:16 GMT -5
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Post by Just Plain Curt on Oct 20, 2006 7:18:06 GMT -5
Nice shots Bob,
Hmmm, I'm guessing British Columbia but I know I'll be wrong here. Like #3 best but as usual I'm guessing DeHavilland Beaver or Norseman? Wish I were a bit more up on my bushplanes so I don't look like such a turkey.
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 20, 2006 8:43:54 GMT -5
Curt
Closer to home, Kenora. I think #3 is an Otter. I have only seen one Norseman in use and that one they eventually managed to park it under water during a landing.
Bob
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Post by kamera on Oct 20, 2006 10:06:03 GMT -5
Neat planes!!! Never been in a plane with pontoons...guess as I never flew into the bush for a hunting or fishing trip.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by herron on Oct 20, 2006 13:24:58 GMT -5
Don't know much about bushplanes, but those are nice pictures of them. I did fly one time, years ago, to a paper mill in Wisconsin in an old DeHaviland Beaver...that -- if memory serves -- looked a lot like #3.  |
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Post by kiev4a on Oct 20, 2006 13:35:19 GMT -5
I flew in a Beaver with wheels yeeeears ago. They are just about indestructable.
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 20, 2006 14:56:36 GMT -5
Ron
I believe the Beaver is #1 and the Otter is #3. I always have trouble with those two as the family resemblance is so strong.
Wayne
They are still much in demand for that very reason of near indestructability. Experience with classic aircraft and classic cameras seem to go hand in hand in your case. A great experience I am sure.
Bob
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Post by herron on Oct 20, 2006 21:44:46 GMT -5
Ron I believe the Beaver is #1 and the Otter is #3. I always have trouble with those two as the family resemblance is so strong. Bob Well then, I may be mis-remembering the name (not an uncommon experience for me, particularly lately  )...since I am pretty sure the one I flew in...maybe 20 years ago...more closely resembled #3 with its multiple side windows. |
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Post by kiev4a on Oct 20, 2006 22:31:40 GMT -5
About 1965 or 1966 I flew with the commanding general of the Idaho National Guard to an engineer project on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on the Idaho-Nevada Border. I was a buck private that they took along because I worked as a civilian for a newspaper and had photo skills. On the way I needed to used the "facility" which was a funnel attached to a tube that ran out into the air stream. Every time I would get ready to use it General Bennett would bounce the Beaver all over the sky. I could see the smile on his face but a private can't tell a General to knock it off.
Finally got to our destination and the General was going to land the Beaver on a straight stretch of highway right next to the project we were visiting. Had to abort at the last minute because there was an Indian curled up right on the centerline, fast asleep! We landed a few hundred yards farther down the road.
I once got to fly 150 miles in a fully restored B-17. That was during the 15-year period when I didn't have any camera equipment. The shots I could have got with the stuff I have now!
Also got to ride backseat on an RF-4 Phantom. Shot pictures but they are buried somewhere in the Guard photo archives. Less than a month after my ride, the same plane I rode in, flown by the same pilot, "augered in" to the mountains in the Idaho Primitive Area. Probably going about 500 knots according to the investigators. Biggest pieces they found were the turbine shafts from the engines!
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)...since I am pretty sure the one I flew in...maybe 20 years ago...more closely resembled #3 with its multiple side windows.