  Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 687 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
I thought it was a nice clear day so I broke-out the camera for some aerial shots, however I think my camera had a hard time focusing through the airplane window. Or I need to clean the lense.              | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 4383 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Well aren't you just the coolest. Sweet pics Mike! | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 2129 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.27.111.125 |
Amazing, MikeM. Thanks so much! | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 320 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.250.243 |
Great photos. I was on the Detroit River and don't recall a 757 flying overhead at about 1000 feet. Nice shot of Detroit showing 333 W. Fort Street building. Finally!!! | ||
Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 32 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.159.150 |
Another reason to love this forum and visit often: Right up there, in living color! Lowell, did you ever imagine? Thanks to you both, FlyGuy Mike M. and forum founder LB! | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 688 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
I just lucked out today. Flew in from New York. Traffic was getting backed up so they took us south of the usual arrival (blue, below) and vectored us over Windsor, south of Zug Island, back northeast over midtown, then back around to the west to join final (red course). The shots are posted out of order, but the first was Belle Isle from about 8000', Chyrsler, downtown and the UAW shots while descending to about 5000, the Rouge, sewage plant, Packard, Poletown, etc from maybe 4000'? Also, they slowed us way back to about 220 mph which helped give me time to snap some shots.  | ||
Kazooexplorer Member Username: Kazooexplorer Post Number: 550 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.42.86.246 |
I did not get as lucky coming in today. My path followed the blue one out of LaGuardia. Alas. Still a nice view though! | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 185 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.40.110.98 |
Can you give us captions as to what we're looking at? I know some of them, but not all. | ||
Track75 Member Username: Track75 Post Number: 1061 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 12.75.20.130 |
Very nice shots MikeM. Thanks a lot for posting them. My favorite part of any flight is looking out the window at Detroit. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 2199 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.228.209.122 |
Mike Great stuff! Were you flying or riding? The glare issues are due to tring to focus through those thick ass tiny windows... Nothing wrong with the lens. A321-atcha! | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 186 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.40.110.98 |
Can you give us captions as to what we're looking at? I know some of them, but not all. | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 1582 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.223.35 |
Hold your cursor over the picture - the captions are there. | ||
Skulker Member Username: Skulker Post Number: 1477 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 63.84.207.67 |
WOW....great stuff, thanks a bunch for sharing... The perspectives you must see on a daily basis on flights in and out must be amazing and with repition comes familiarity....like your great work on the missing round houses of Detroit... Thanks again for the great stuff. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 690 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
Andrew, I'm not telling. Jerome, after the downtown shots, you have the Ford Rouge complex looking straight north, then the GM Hamtramck Assembly plant looking towards the northwest, then the former Packard factory looking southeast (I-94 along the bottom). Next is a plant that used to be the Detroit Gasket Co, on Fullerton at Evergreen. Don't know what it is now. Took the picture because it looks like a Kahn style roof. Next is the Detroit sewage treatment plant on W Jefferson at the Rouge, with I-75 at the top and Zug Island at the bottom right corner. After the Belle Isle shot is one of the former Parke-Davis factory, now Stroh Place, on the left and the new UAW GM Riverfront Training Center on the right. Then comes the shot of Piquette Avenue with the former Studebaker, Ford, and Fisher Body plants. I-94 clips the bottom right of the photo. What's between Ford and Fisher? EMF? Next shot is Lafayette Park east of downtown, then the Great Lakes Steel plant in Ecorse. The last is the Chrysler E Jefferson assembly plant. Hey Rock, I didn't see the Winsome at berth:  Heading north over Wayne State:  Do realize that most of these were clipped from larger shots. The Poletown and Piquette shots came from this one:  Clipping out a 500 pixel, 50 kb piece gives me something of this size and quality - a bit raw without some enhancement. I94/I75:  | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 4259 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.71.65.3 |
Great shots MikeM as usual! Looks like you flew over my house! These are some of the best photos ever! Thanks for sharing. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 903 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 67.169.211.203 |
Nice work Mike. Great shots of the attractions. I saw you over my house, 14032 Northlawn, Detroit, near Wyoming and Schoolcraft, Detroit 04. That's The Rock down there in GP raking leaves on the estate. I'll be damned, he's got socks on. Boating season must have ended already. jjaba | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 157 Registered: 07-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.196 |
Hey, Mikem! Thanks for the pictures! I saw my studio building over there by Old Tiger Stadium! Its so tiny! | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 691 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
O.K., now you're pulling my leg! Although if you look closley you can find familiar sights:  | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 692 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
Thanks for the comments everyone. Skulker, sightseeing is the better part of the job and repetition does help one find things quicker and easier. For instance Sunday I drove up to some junkyard off of McNichols, checked out some old grocery store signs, some of TSM's rides from the '70s, squashed flat, etc. But you can only see so far on the ground; I had no idea how far back the yard stretched behind its walls made of wheel-less truck trailers. Today I picked it out immediately and could see acres of cars and junk behind the walls - stuff nobody ever sees. The other thing that amazes me is how much I can see at once. Not in terms of land area but in details. Those two shots above, of Poletown and downtown were taken seconds apart. I can move my eyes from looking down on Cafe deTroit to the Plymouth Lynch Road plant to Palmer Park in seconds whereas to drive around to see those sites would take an hour. I can't say the same for other cities though. Flying into New York or LA is still overwhelming to me. I can pick out a few things here and there, but there's too much to see and it's all moving by too fast. Familiarity definitely makes a difference. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 2200 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.228.209.122 |
Mike... My non-expert aviation opinion based on the photos above tells me you were up front in the left seat. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 392 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.166 |
Absolutely fantastic Mike. Thanks so much! Great shot of Piquette Ave. chrysalis of the auto industry, two pics below Belle Isle -- which is also another great shot. Similar to the angle that inspired this painting. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 849 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.101.250.175 |
Mikem, thanks for the great photos! I always get a kick out of flying into Detroit. I still get excited looking for specific buildings and landmarks. Sometimes I can even make out my parents neighborhood. The last time I flew in with my son I excitedly described all the buildings roads etc. we were flying over on our approach, my then 9 month old was quite impressed with daddy geting excited pushing his face up to the glass. One thing, mikem ... evergreen and "fullerton"? I don't recognize the building .... | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 696 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
Rustic, it's actually between Burt and Evergreen on the north side of the railraod tracks that parallel Fullerton. In the picture below, Fullerton comes in from the west (top left) along the north side of the tracks and ends at Burt Rd across from the factory. The tracks continue along the south side of the factory. Evergreen clips the lower right of the picture as does the Jefferies. Any ideas?   Also what is the large warehouse on the south side of the tracks?  | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 850 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 130.132.177.245 |
Mikem thanks for the clarification. I'll have to think about it (burt@ glendale ...) I still can't recall it, tho I used to ride my bike past it all the time coming home from Rouge Park. (I used to regularly play tennis at those nice courts (har-tru?) on the NE end of the park (the courts at the closer-to-home Stoepel park unfortunately were not as nice and they often more crowded).) That large warehouse, I think, used to be a Kmart or Farmer Jack(?) distribution hub. Also there was a place where the city collected and, I think, burned old tree limbs etc. but as I recall that was closer to Southfield on the south side of Jeffries/rr tracks. (Look for a standard CoD yellow brick building with a short fat smokestack if memory serves.) That industrial stretch along that west side rail line is a real patchwork maze, some of those factories are nearly impossible to get to unless you know exactly where you are going. If you look at a map you'll kinda see what I'm talking about but it is worse than that in person. In addition, the truck traffic, guards and loose guard dogs plus the rail spurs made exploring by bicycle as a kid challenging, to put it mildly. Exploring by car is MORE difficult ... one way streets, deadends, rail cutoffs etc. | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 697 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.13.146 |
I'm calling it the Detroit Gasket Co. because that's what my 1947 map calls it.  | ||
Davedoc Member Username: Davedoc Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2007 |
1947 my birth year mike (St. Martins eastside) |
