How bout a few Vintage aircraft photos?

**firstgenaddict** · #1 11-27-2011, 05:23 AM

Moderators... If this is out of place please delete...
I have 5000+ negatives and 8 mm color video all were taken and developed by my grandfather in the mid 30's - early 50's. They range from airplanes to the construction of Papermills to OCS school in Philly, NY Worlds Fair 1939, Duke University 1940-1944 (including Video of the only Rose bowl not played in Pasedena to his Battleship (Soley) to Tokyo Feb 1946 including the mountains with the Railways running into them.

**Bill Pritchard** · #2 11-27-2011, 05:38 AM

I like 'em!!!

**kwhizz** · #3 11-27-2011, 01:44 PM

Keep them coming...........

**Woj** · #4 11-27-2011, 04:25 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kwhizz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Keep them coming........... </div></div>

I agree. I'd like to see more.

Phil Woj

**firstgenaddict** · #5 11-27-2011, 07:48 PM

MORE are coming...
It is quite a process to get these into digital format as they are large format 3x5 high quality negs. (My great grandfather owned a Newspaper, then was a sports editor for the Charlotte Observer and edited the NC truck owners magazine so the equipment was at hand)
I set up a high intensity light behind the negs and use a long focal length 8 megapixel camera to get the neg into digital, then invert the image and white balance in photoshop.

I am communicating with Getty Images about hosting the collection.

My grandfather was an engineer (designed and built papermills) so I have all kinds of photos of construction of Hotels in downtown Charlotte, radio towers, etc...

Austell Boxboard Mill #1 (just outside of Atlanta)

MrsBillyBobcat · #6 11-27-2011, 08:25 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: firstgenaddict</div><div class="ubbcode-body">MORE are coming...

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Looking forward to seeing them James! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

I appreciate the time and effort you are taking so that you can share them with us! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif[/img]

**427TJ** · #7 11-27-2011, 08:38 PM

I have a bunch of good airplane photos too. Here's the one and only Convair XC-99 transport at its home base of Kelley AFB in about 1950. My dad was a young enlisted man when the XC-99 first arrived at Kelley and said that when it landed, with its original single wheel main landing gear, that it broke through the asphalt as it taxied in. It was updated with multi-wheel mains soon after. It remained at Kelley after its 1955 retirement but has been moved to Dayton for restoration and eventual display at the USAF Museum. The XC-99 is a derivative of the B-36 bomber.

Just beyond the XC-99 is a Boeing YC-97 (early short B-29 style tail and R-3350 engines) and two B-29s.

**427TJ** · #8 11-27-2011, 08:40 PM

California Air National Guard (Van Nuys) F-86A Sabre cavorting over Los Angeles in 1954.

**427TJ** · #9 11-27-2011, 08:46 PM

Colonel George Laven's colorful F-100A at George AFB in 1957. Laven was the commander of the 479th Tac Fighter Wing and a WWII ace and commander's jets were often colorfully marked as seen here. The unit converted to the F-104 in 1959 and Laven's 104 was delivered in similar commander's colors and whitewall-painted tires! Contrails high above the base mean fighter-interceptors or perhaps test planes from nearby Edwards AFB at work. Only military planes were 'up in the cons' in those days since jets were not quite in airline service yet.

A George-based 327th FIS F-102 is at left and a B-47 bomber at right.

**427TJ** · #10 11-27-2011, 08:49 PM

Not an airplane photo but an airport. This is Orchard Place Army Airfield soon after the end of WWII. Upgraded and renamed O'Hare Airport after famed U.S. Navy WWII ace "Butch" O'Hare, it bears little resemblance to its humble beginnings. If you look carefully at O'Hare on Google Earth you can still make out the triangular runway pattern on the north side of the main terminal. View here looks southwest.