old birds
I may never be anything of a photographer, but I really like this picture, partially because it perfectly demonstrates three point perspective. It’s very unusual to be able to get in this sort of position, they placed the plane in a spot where you can just stand on a little rise and take this picture. Click to embiggenate.
The plan is a C-97G Stratofreighter. Tail number 52-0898. Four 3200 horsepower 28 cylinder Pratt Whitney Wasp engines. It’s at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in Rantoul, IL. I didn’t go in the museum, I just took this picture over a fence. I will go back, and visit the museum proper, now that I know that it’s there.
Nice looking old bird!
isn’t it? I bet a real photographer would have come on an overcast day so there was no shadow, or waited until the shadow was directly under the bird.
Well the lighting is better with overcast, but you did a bang up job. Like those old planes.
It’s a real pity the Air Force decided to close down Chanute and move maintenance training to Texas. Ah well, at least they closed it down after I’d already graduated E&E and moved on down to my first duty assignment at Altus.
But damn! There sure was a lot of history on that base.
Grew up just down the road from Rantoul in the 70s. It never got over the base closure.
I love those planes!
I want to see one of the refueling ones. This one is a freighter and doesn’t have an ovipositor.