Here’s my Piper L-4 photo from Saturday’s JAA Fly-In, in an advertisement to drum up war bond sales to purchase Piper “Flying Jeeps” for our boys overseas…
You can see more of my War Bond posters in the link above titled…”POSTERS AND ARTWORK”.
This morning June 15th, 2013 I attended the 18th Annual Jeffco Aviation Association (JAA) Fly-In. The Fly-In began at 6:00 am with a pancake breakfast on the ramp outside of the terminal building at KBJC. The aircraft on display this clear blue June morning, were also being judged in the following categories…classic, antique, warbird, homebuilt, contemporary, light sport and special interest. Trophies were awarded to the best aircraft in each respective category.
Up at 4:00 am to try and catch some good light, I arrived at KBJC just before 6:00 am to find a handful of military aircraft on the ramp, but only two civilian aircraft for the Fly-In. I hung around for a bit and that quickly changed. Around 7:00 am the ramp slowly came alive, as aircraft from across the northern part of the state began arriving. Soon the entire ramp was filled with a variety of aircraft ranging from a turbo-prop Canadian military trainer to homebuilts and a freshly restored WWII vintage Piper L-4.
As my time allows, I’ll be processing photos from the event and updating this post. For now, to kick things off, here’s that Piper L-4…
(Click On Piper L-4 Image For Full-Size)
Well, if you haven’t been watching the national news, it’s Wild Fire season again here in Colorado. I went out this afternoon for a while to the KBJC Firebase. Among the assortment of aircraft present was this Bell 205A-1.
I captured a few photos this afternoon and will be updating the site over the next few days. -Quib
Not aviation related, but Colorado Wild Fire related. With smoke in the air along the Front Range, the sunrise can be quite interesting. Here’s the sunrise through a smoke filled Colorado morning, in a photo I titled….”Fire Bowl”.
This photo was shot in the summer of 2011 at a small airshow in northern Colorado. I found this little motorized cart quite interesting and had to look up the details on it. After a quick Google search, I found out these vehicles were made not too far from here.
From the U.S. Airforce Museum Website: The three-wheeled utility vehicle was built in 1943 for the U.S. Army. The Cushman company of Lincoln, Neb., began making scooters in 1936 and sold 606 Model 39s to the U.S. military during World War II. These utility scooters remained in service for many years moving various equipment and supplies. The Model 39 used a small one-cylinder engine, yet could carry a fairly heavy load and could travel about 60 miles on a one-gallon tank of gas.
I can just imagine some Supply Sergeant zipping up and down the flight-line on this thing, barking out orders!
Everyone admires beautiful images of vintage aircraft, or maybe even a modern jet fighter. One thing I love to do while out shooting photos of aircraft, is to capture the element of people & aviation.
Below is one of my latest photos capturing that element, which I titled “The Aviator”. This photo and others, can be seen in my gallery above titled…”PEOPLE & AVIATION”.
And for those “non-aviation” folks who just don’t get it…..”jugs” is a frequently used term in the aviation industry for an aircraft piston engine cylinder assembly.
Here’s some B&W conversion work of mine, inspired by opening footage from the original WWII War Department documentary covering the Memphis Belle’s 25th mission.
You can see more of my Memphis Belle photos posted below, or up above under the Military Aviation 2 gallery.
(Click on photo to be taken to the large version.)
(Click on drawing for large version.)
I’m very honored to have this photo take 2nd place for the 2nd time in two leading industry magazine photo contests. First announced last December, the 2012 Vertical Magazine photo contest 2nd place “People Category”, and just recently announced, the 2012/2013 HeliOps Magazine photo contest 2nd place “Artistic Category”.
And a special thanks goes out to Dennis Pierce and the team at Colorado Heli Ops, who through their generous invitation to come out and shoot for a day, helped make it all possible!
http://quibphotography.com/2012/11/30/vertical-magazine-2012-photo-contest/
Saturday May 18, I attended the 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Light Sport Aircraft Expo at Front Range Airport. The Expo showcases to the public, many of the Light Sport Aircraft available on the market, as well as a variety of experimental aircraft and of course everyone’s favorite… the classics of a by-gone era of aviation, an assortment of the vintage fighters and trainers of WWII.
New to this year’s show, and the Colorado air-show scene in general, is this beautiful example of a North American Aviation NA-50 fighter. The NA-50 was developed for export as a single seat, single engine, low-wing fighter. The original NA-50 was based off the NA-16/BT-9 basic training aircraft of 1935. This gorgeous example of the NA-50 painted in US Army Air Corp colors of 1939, is a replica constructed from SNJ-4 and T-6G airframe parts and is powered by a 600 h.p. Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp engine.
I look forward to seeing this aircraft at future events here in the state and can not wait for more opportunities to capture images of her.
Below are a few of the images I captured on Saturday’s event, the first of which is the newest member to the Colorado warbird scene…the previously mentioned fighter classic the NA-50!
