DC3s at Essendon, 1965

o0o somehow there is a feeling of heat as we walk across to the aircraft ;-)
pleased you are back home safe ;-) oOo

And I'm glad to be back, bev. :)

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and also ADMIRED in 4U

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Awesome capture!

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Thanks, William.

excellent pic compo here

Thank you, Annemarie.

Got to love the Dakota George!!! a very fine picture

Thanks, Richard. They were marvellous old birds.

I particularly like the composition of this George and it goes without saying that it is of great historical interest.
My last recollection of DC3s was when I was flown from Auckland to Invercargill in an NAC Skyliner and that was a whole ten years after this photo was taken.

Thanks, Neil. A check on the net disclosed that Australia's last DC3 airline service was operated by a Bush Pilots Airways aircraft in April 1988 - a week or so before the airline was taken over by a larger airline. More old aircraft shots coming later.

Very nice historical shot. Love the composition with the up close view. Pretty good colour for a slide as well.

Thanks, Gillian. Taken in the days when airport security was relaxed and anyone working at the airport could wander onto the apron. :)

I flew in a DC-3 about 15 years ago on a regularly scheduled flight on Kenya Airlines. According to a card in the plane, the plane had been used in the Berlin Airlift, and then had been "mothballed" for a number of years before being brought back into service with Kenya Airways. I love the composition in this photo.

Thanks for that reminiscence and your kind comment, Esther. I'm sure that your flight would be a great memory (thoughts occur of the flying scene in "Out of Africa").

And great memories for me as well.
Much later as a teacher in Mount Gambier, we'd see one flying over.
We had a terrific aviation project that ran for many years and which cemented a friendship with the Airport Manager, Mr Murray Davis (now retired).
He made sometimes made forward arrangements for us to take the children out to the airport to see aircraft, including, one day, one of these DC3s.

Oh dear ... the only photo I have uploaded of that day is a bunch of people standing near it!
www.flickr.com/photos/justjjoke/1046072719/in/set-72157600226440339

I'd imagine the class would have had a great time visiting the airport, Judith. Sad to say, I can't get the flickr link to work.

As an aside, our high school was not too far from an airport where the air force operated DC3s. Often they would do practice circuits of the airport over our school, at a height of a few hundred feet. One of our teachers was a former wartime pilot and one of these DC3s was doing circuits with one engine stopped. The teacher told us that, if the second engine stopped we should get under our desks. "Why?" somebody asked. "So that you don't see what happened to you" he replied with a smile. :)

nice one George ....
I wonder .. when you click on the award ... does it take you back
to the group ... ? I'm having problems !

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Seeing your message I just tried, but received the message "This group is closed because of the lack of administrators". Seems a little sorting is needed, Bev. Goodnight.

hello George ... sorted ;-)))))))) the link in the little box on the far right works ... and will
reopen the other one as a discussion later when I return ... ;-) hiccups ... ;-)

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You woulnd't believe that when you see modern airports just 50 years later :-))

Nicely composed Image George, Good looking and long serving aircraft.

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SO 1965! I love this composition and the old film look!

Great photography, George! So sharp, and what color. Looks like it was taken today. That Kodachrome is fantastic stuff!!

Great airtport scenery of 1965 George !

May I suggest you again to change the date displayed here in order to fix this image in the right time of this moving shot ?

Done. :-)

Yu are a sweet guy thanks a bunch George.

Good old DC3! This photo has a surrealistic quality. Maybe it's the 1960s color. Anyway, I like this a lot. How do you copy from slides? My brother and I were just talking about how we could see Dad's old slides again (maybe not all 5,000 of them!) short of finding an old projector somewhere.

I'm glad you like this, Diane. I think the surreal feeling is that the aircraft are isolated by a slight ridge, so there is no other context. You might find this article I wrote several years ago helpful for slide copying. www.ipernity.com/blog/tiabunna/4248640 I've also seen it suggested that putting the slides on a light table, then photographing with a macro lens, is a workable approach (though I haven't tried it). I still have far more slide copying to do and I think the first thing is to be very selective which ones to copy (that cuts the work down a lot), the second is to clean the inevitable dust from them before copying. Good luck with the project!