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Sep 30, 2018 10:19:36   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
On the final day at the Oshkosh 2018 AirVenture, I used the remaining film to practice in-flight photography using an EOS 1V. Over the past few years, I've purchased a few bulk sales of expired film offered by various UHH members. The B&W film used below came from one of those purchases along with other expired rolls used earlier in the week at Oshkosh. The Ektar (color ISO-100) was from fresh stock.

Kyle Franklin, son of late air show legend Jimmy Franklin, began flying at age 8 in a Piper Super Cub. By age 14 he performed his first wing walk and at 17 he was wing-walking professionally for his father. Kyle started his own piloting career performing in air shows at age 21.

The S7 Speedster is a kit plane, one you can order and assemble yourself for about $26,000. The plane can carry 800 lbs with a 27-gallon fuel capacity.

Kyle Franklin in Kitfox S7 Speedster by Paul Sager, on Flickr



The 4 aircraft currently flown by the Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team (CHAT) were all built between 1941-1952 and have been in continuous service for over 80 years. The team is a flying tribute to the wartime effort known as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). The BCATP was a joint training program created by the governments of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand and was focused strictly on training aircrew for WWII. The wide open spaces of Canada's western provinces provided the training ground for more than 130,000 aircrews.

Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team



The team flies 3 Canadian built Harvards and 1 American built Harvard. The Harvard is a Pratt & Whitney powered, dual tandem seated, low winged metal monoplane (with the exception of fabric covered control surfaces). The Harvard is known as the T-6 Texan or SNJ in the United States, depending on the configuration and military branch where assigned. The American built plane is believed to be one of the aircraft physically dragged across the Canadian / American border by a team of horses under the guise of not violating the US Neutrality Act prior to the US entering the war in December 1941.

Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team



Ektar started as a color 35mm semi-professional film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1989, which used the common C-41 process. Poor market segmentation between various formats influenced Kodak's decision to discontinue Ektar in 1994. The film was replaced by the Royal Gold line. Prior to its use on films, the Ektar name originally referred to Eastman Kodak's premium-priced lenses for professional use, introduced in 1936 and sold until the 1960s. The name Ektar is an acronym for Eastman Kodak TessAR. A new film was introduced in September 2008 under the name Kodak EKTAR 100, which claims to be the finest-grain color negative film available on the market, featuring high saturation and vivid colors.

Skip Steward in Prometheus 2



Skip Steward has over ten thousand hours of flying experience, being an Airline Transport Pilot, Boeing 727, and MD-11 Captain, and a Certified Flight Instructor.

Skip Steward in Prometheus 2



A modified Pitts S2S, Prometheus has been featured in aviation magazines worldwide. Prometheus was a rebel titan who displeased Zeus by taking the power of fire from Zeus and giving it to the people of earth. The name matches the paint design with its hot rod style flame job.

Skip Steward in Prometheus 2



Kodak Portra is a family of daylight-balanced professional color negative films originally introduced in 1998 and made mainly for portrait and wedding applications. The film has been upgraded several times to improve grain and scanning performance. Portra 400BW used a new generation T-Grain emulsion designed to be a black and white negative film to be processed using normal C41 chemistry alongside rolls of color film, and printed on standard color paper. The B&W version of Portra film was discontinued prior to 2003.

Skip Steward demonstrates the flying skill to cut a ribbon held 25-feet off the ground.

Tape cutting



The P-51 Quicksilver was a 14-year restoration project by Bill Yoak of Lewisburg, WV, using parts from around the globe. The tail came from Israel, one wing came from the Dominican Republic, the other is from Switzerland. Scott Yoak stopped counting at 200 sources for the parts his father used in building the plane. Yoak selected the P-51 as a restoration project given the numerous of P-51s available when he started in the late 1960s. More than 15,000 P-51s were built by North American Aviation during WWII and many were sold as surplus after the war, often for as little as $1,500. Now in the 21st century, a P-51 can command a price of more than $1 million, even for only partially restored aircraft.

P-51 Quicksilver



Processing and scanning for these images was performed by North Coast Photography Services of Carlsbad, CA. I've tried a few different mail-order outfits and changed from The Darkroom after repeated occurances of scratches and dust in the scans. Although the high-resolution scans can be clearned-up in Lightroom, it's tedious work and I've had much more success with NCPS where the 5033x3339-pixel files are a pleasure to process to completion.

The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the US Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II. The C-17 commonly performs tactical and strategic airlift missions, transporting troops and cargo throughout the world.

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III


The film camera used was an EOS 1V, the last model of Canon professional film cameras. Released in 2000, the EOS 1V was officially discontinued by Canon on May 30, 2018. Canon used the suffix 'v' because the camera introduced the fifth generation of Canon professional SLRs, after the Canon F-1 and New F-1, the Canon T90, and earlier EOS 1 models. The camera records to an internal memory chip 17 different data items, including exposure details, metering mode used, flash modes, and so forth. That shooting data can be extracted from the camera to a PC and merged as EXIF data into the scanned images. That shooting data and references to the EF 300mm F/2.8L IS II and the Canon EF 1.4x III Extender are reflected in EXIF data available for each image on Flickr.

The images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.

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Sep 30, 2018 10:26:18   #
Skiextreme2 Loc: Northwest MA
 
Very nice and great commentary

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Sep 30, 2018 10:34:08   #
crazylarry
 
Great stuff, love old planes!

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Sep 30, 2018 10:35:03   #
FL Streetrodder
 
Great set of photos! Really enjoyed the description and history of the aircraft as well as the equipment used in their capture.

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Sep 30, 2018 11:48:24   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
Another excellent set.

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Oct 1, 2018 07:20:54   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Excellent photos, Paul.

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Oct 1, 2018 09:28:03   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Thank you John, Ken, FL Streetrodder, crazylarry, Skiextreme2! Glad you enjoyed.

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Oct 1, 2018 09:52:39   #
Paloviejo
 
Great work...thanks!

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Oct 1, 2018 12:00:10   #
DaveC1 Loc: South East US
 
Very good CHG CANON. #7 and #8 are my favorites for completely different reasons.

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Oct 1, 2018 12:41:39   #
willaim Loc: Sunny Southern California
 
Great series of shots and wonderful commentaries. I like photo # 7

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Oct 1, 2018 13:05:38   #
nospambob Loc: Edmond, Oklahoma
 
Great shots, and great narrative. Thank you so much.

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Oct 2, 2018 07:59:09   #
Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia
 
Great info and a fantastic series, Paul---thanks!

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Oct 2, 2018 09:17:13   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Thank you Swamp-Cork, Bob, William, Dave C, Paloviejo! Glad you enjoyed.

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Oct 2, 2018 11:09:35   #
SpyderJan Loc: New Smyrna Beach. FL
 
WOW! Paul, your images and narrative are excellent. That P-51 Quicksilver is a beautiful aircraft. One of my favorites.

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Oct 3, 2018 00:19:33   #
Pixie Jackie Loc: New Hampshire seacoast
 
Hi Paul -- Most of the pictures of air shows that I've seen have been ho-hum boring. But these are really great! They certainly don't look "static". -- PixieJackie

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