Curtiss over the clouds

[Baldeagle]

Tuesday morning at 4,000 feet over SW Pennsylvania



Unfortunately I only had a cell phone camera in the Taylorcraft...




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[LadyO2Pilot]

That is LOVELY!!!!!!

[RyanShort1]

Lovely indeed!

Ryan

[Baldeagle]

Anybody good with Photoshop who can take out the prop stripes on the right??




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[The Inspector]

Darned evocative, crop the right edge and it'll be dead center in the cloudscape-lucky shot for light and backdrop!

[Sully]

Limited by what I can upload to the site.

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Last edited by Sully on Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:14 pm, edited 3 times in total.

[cco23i]

Boy does THAT look SWEET!!

Scott

[carlisle1926]

Amazing photograph.

[Baldeagle]

Thanks for the comments, and thanks Sully for the photo editing.
Also, pilot of the Curtiss in the photo is Mark Holliday of Colorado, on the way from Greene County Airport south of Pittsburgh to Garrett County Airport in far Western Maryland.

Here's another one from earlier in the same flight



More photos are on the Curtiss Pusher's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ely-C ... 3971758689




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[Canso42]

That needs to be on a poster!

[JohnB]

Beautiful!
One of the best photos ever.


At the risk of sounding like a real wuss...at that altitude I'd prefere to have a bit more airframe around me...
(yes, I know it's irrelevant if you're at 50 feet or 5,000+ the ground is the same hardness).

[Baldeagle]

It may be psychological, but you're right, there's a lot of difference between being at 50 feet and being at 5,000 feet in the Curtiss. I tell everyone that the higher you go the narrower the seat gets...




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