AirVenture 2007
The near-perfect bush-plane
Cessna 180 N521VT Northern LIghts Airport Heros Aviation ScootAir Alburg, Vermont Lake Champlain International Seaplane Fly In Moosehead Lake Greenville Cove Greenville, Maine Seaplane & Landplane
56 C180 5639TT with all new Firewall forward with Continental Factory Reman O-470 230horsepower and McCauley prop (Factory Remanufactured, not an overhauled). New governor, New baffles, ONLY 10 hours (may change slightly) since complete install two months ago! Has Horton STOL with cuff and fences, VG’s Vortex Generators, flap gap seals. 850 tires. 406 ELT...
01/30/05; my second air-to-air photo shoot, this digital image was taken after the session was finished with my serious (big film) camera, on our way back to the airport in San Luis Obispo, along Highway 101 approaching Santa Margarita and the Cuesta Grade from the Paso Robles-Atascadero area. In a week or so, once the negatives are processed, I'll post the best of 30 color frames shot with the Pentax 67. This is an especially well kept Cessna 180 owned by a United Airlines Pilot. Another pilot flew my Luscombe while I sat on my knees, hunched down facing aft in the right-side seat, with the door removed. For much of the time we were in very close formation so I could use a wide angle lens (55mm for the 6x7cm format), which is more pictorally desirable for this sort of photography. At times we were close enough that I could hear the snarl of its propeller over the already high level of engine and slipstream noise. Getting nice images of airplanes in flight is not easy, (and, yes, this one is out of focus and of fairly low resolution) especially in less than perfectly smooth air; the photo-run must be made on a heading that will provide proper lighting and the perspective must be such that the subject is shown clearly, that is, the tail section is not obscured by the wing, the registration number usually needs to be visible (as it is often a custom number for nicely kept aircraft, etc.). Also, the background must not conflict with or distract from the subject, i.e., no roads crossing under the subject, breaking up it's lines, etc., and it must be obvious that the viewer is in flight with the subject. The photographer must always strive to see the whole frame... a vital element of framing and composing is using the whole frame; cropping must be kept to a minimum (this image is full-frame-- I got lucky with the upper wing tip). Becoming fixated on the subject and failing to see the whole picture is too easy in such a dynamic situation--add to all that a little turbulence (a lot of turbulance makes this impossible), the kind that strikes just as you're tripping the shutter (this reminds me, your shutter speed must be low enough to blur the propeller but not everything else which is also moving; 125/sec, maybe 250 max--this propeller displays minimally acceptable blur) add discomfort as the circulation in your feet goes away while on tighly bended knees, difficult communications over noise (even with an intercom through headsets), cold fingers and the intricacies of unloading and loading roll-film every 10 frames... oh, and of course, avoiding collision.
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Cessna 180 over Salt Lake Valley in the sunset.
1954 Cessna 180 Parts Manual. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Central MS Light Flyers Club fly-in
Kit - Graupner Cessna 180 - Free download as PDF File (.pdf) or view presentation slides online. Graupner Kit Plan Cessna 180
New Zealand's Cessna 180 and 185 Skywagons
The Alaskan autumn colors compliment this Brown and Orange 180 on floats as she returns to Lake Hood. - Photo taken at Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (LHD / Z41) in Alaska, USA on October 4, 2011.
Slowing down after landing on the lake. - Photo taken at Anchorage - Lake Hood Strip / Seaplane (LHD / Z41) in Alaska, USA on October 4, 2011.
Exterior – Blue, yellow, and white. Paint is in good condition. There are some runs on the leading edges from a poor touch up and some chips on the side of the fuselage from prop wash. Interior – Blue fabric. Good condition with a brand new, heavy duty headliner. Avionics – Narco Audio Panel. Narco...
Photo taken at Pueblo - Memorial (PUB / KPUB) in Colorado, USA on June 13, 2014.
Photo taken at Unknown in Nevada, USA on October 28, 2013.
Cessna C-180 "Spirit of Columbus" on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center.
Near the Rio Grade in South Texas - Photo taken at In Flight in Texas, USA on February 7, 1993.
Cessna 180 photographed close to Pietermaritzburg from Cessna 206, ZS-NTI. Nikon D90 and 24-120mm Nikkor zoom. - Photo taken at In Flight in South Africa on December 17, 2010.
