Tag:aircraft
I recently came across this image of our re-supply DeHavilland Twin Otter in a desert takeoff from our camp air strip in the Haruj area of Libya. The Haruj is a large volcanic field in central Libya and contains the remains of about 150 volcanoes. In most places the black basalt gravel covering overlays a fine yellow sand – even gypsum in some places. Breaking the surface of the basalt gravel would send up choking clouds of fine dust such […]
Hannibal did it by Elephant but I find it easier by aircraft – crossing the Alps that is. In this photo from 1991 everything point to this being a flight from Malta to London.
Here’s a different photo of the Paradise Air Grumman Goose I posted a few days back. From the shadows on the hills in the background it looks like I took this mid-afternoon.
The vertical framing of this shot has changes the overall exposure with the layer of cloud above the aircraft more dark and ominous looking. The sun is setting on the far side of the cloud wall with rays of sunlight streaking through the gaps in the clouds lighting them up like they’re on fire while sheets of rain fall on the communities just inland of the coast.
But looking back I got this fantastic view of the sunlight from the setting sun streaming through the gap in the clouds with sheets of rain from the storm falling just inland from the coast. I once again turned to my Canon S100 to capture the scene. From the features on the ground, the aircraft would have been over or just south of Eisenhower, Lehigh Acres, Florida. You can make out the Gulf coast and the southern end of Estero Bay between the two sheets of rain in the center of the photo.
As we approached the west coast of Florida I saw a wall of cloud to the south-east, pretty much aligned with the coast, illuminated from the setting sun to the west. I shot several frames of the scene with my Canon S100.
