  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5479 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.93.207 |
Today we're keepin' it rural! P.D.J. | ||
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 299 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.173.240 |
What a delightful bit of time travel, Andrew! Thanks for those your-farmtown-name-here landscapes and the only-in-Ypsi aviation history images. Hope you'll keep rolling and shooting even when gas hits . . . . . . oh, it's not even amusing anymore, is it? You have a great weekend too, Lensman. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1143 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225 |
AIW does it again!! I had a little legal business in Tecumseh occasionally,(Tecumseh Products) and found it a pleasant place to travel. The sites along the way made it interesting as well as a relaxing trip. Great plane shots, too, Planes from the past. DC-6, 727, etc. And an AWESOME shot of our own (YAF's) "Yankee Lady". You really captured her at the right level and angle. Can I send it on to the president of YAF? You can see "The Lady" again on April 29-30 at a Red Cross benefit in Howell. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5480 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 209.216.150.127 |
Rock feel free. Have him contact me if he needs a larger version. Right place at the right time. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 8345 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.71.59.252 |
Great picture of the B-17 AIW! Maybe Sport can let us in on the hick-esque addition to buildings in his former living area. | ||
Umstucoach Member Username: Umstucoach Post Number: 6 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.211.120.177 |
Lenawee County's N/S roads are all called "highways" trhoughout the enitre county. Weird, but that is how they do it. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 487 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Funny, I haven't thought about DC-6s since I don't know when. Then last night I'm watching John Wayne fly one in "High and Mighty", and today I find Andrew's great shot of one. Things come in threes. Where's my next DC-6 coming from??? | ||
Lawnmowerman Member Username: Lawnmowerman Post Number: 9 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 70.104.116.131 |
Its nice to see pics on the forum of my "stompin grounds". I live on senic Ridge Hwy..Its said to be the shoreline of Lake Erie before it receded eons ago.The first photo is the old Fisher Body plant just south of tecumseh.At Meyers airport they offer skydiving there and the cockpits are used sometimes to train jumpers. | ||
Gumby Member Username: Gumby Post Number: 1109 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.60.143.186 |
Think calling that a highway is bad? When I lived up in Rogers City there were some two-tracks that were labeled Highways. I believe that one was Heythaler Highway. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 3693 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.160.138.107 |
Lsawnmowerman, welcome to the The Forum. You picked a great thread. Excellent shot of airplane in the blue sky, eh. Ray1936, what goes up in Nevada stays in Nevada. See what you can find out there. Andrew, you missed a couple of great spots in Ypsilanti. The Tucker plant and the Hudson dealership and Museum in the Depot District. Might need to make a return trip. Great old homes in Ypsi also. Thanks. Merci. jjaba on the Far Westside. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 526 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28 |
A "mighty" DC-8? Well, that's what I get for living in Boeing country. Although they're being replaced, you still see DC-6's and 7's in service fighting forest fires as retardant bombers. Butler Aviation has some it uses in Pacific Northwest, and when the USFS retardant base was in Wenatchee, WA, they used to fly over the house very low and very loud. For a couple more shots of a DC-6, try www.sunshine-fpd.org/cache/tan ker-68-index.html This one's in service. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 488 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Okay....got this email today...shot of Poland Air Lines landing near Hamtramck. Best I could do.  | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 527 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28 |
Obviously not a Boeing product. Airbus, maybe? | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1146 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225 |
Douglasm---Were you in "Boeing Country" when that beautiful 307 Stratocruiser went down in the drink in Seattle?? I saw her at Udvar-Hazey at Dulles and she looks beautiful now. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 528 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.189.188.28 |
Yea, and you'd thunk the Kingdome had imploded again. Of course there was media coverage all over the place (it is a piece of Seattle history) and we saw it ditch in Elliot Bay from every possible angle. There's a nifty story about the crash at the Wazoo's online library that includes pictures of it in the bay..... www.historylink.org/essays/out put.cfm?file_id=3740 The pilot did an amazing job of "landing" the plane, and due to his skill in putting it down, the 307 had little enough damage that the Boeing volunteers were able to restore it again. I won't say anything about the pilot forgetting to verify the fuel load and the subsequent running out of gas...... | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5482 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.93.207 |
Lawnmower man, I probably drove past your house yesterday. It's not you that has roosters running wild on the front lawn is it?  Fisher Body huh? I was wondering what the history was (I was actually in there visiting the current tennant). It was a great day for a drive yesterday. |
