The most beatiful photograph?

[better duck]

Hi guys,
Here is a photo that I consider the most beautiful photograph of an airplane in its element I ever saw. That it happens to be of the B17, my favourite airplane, is a bonus.

I found this picture, among many, many others on the website of the 457th BG. In the photocollection section is a link to the "Zemper collection", consisting of photographs made by the group photography officer and his crew.

http://www.457thbombgroup.org/zemper/intro.html

Enjoy!

 

[Jamesp]

Simply wonderfull.

 

[Anonymous]

GREAT SHOT, thanks!

 

[hacker]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FLjI_SgC2EY

Great opening photography from an equally great film!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vew62sQ-KCw

More neat stuff from another cold war film....


Hacker

 

[Anonymous]

http://northstargallery.com/Aircraft/B17/about.htm Note the B-17 with the fifth engine in the nose.

 

[dadgad]

 

[T-Bolt]

Very, very nice photograph, Peter. The clouds, the plane, the ocean.......what a beautiful combination!!


Ted

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I removed it, don't want to offend.

 

[T-Bolt]

Mark........what's up with putting that in the "most beautiful photograph" thread?? It seems kind of tasteless to me!


Ted

 

[Anonymous]

Mark........what's up with putting that in the "most beautiful photograph" thread?? It seems kind of tasteless to me!


Ted

Oh god alright then.

 

[hacker]

Merlin firing up!

 

[T-Bolt]

Thanks......Mark........ but don't get your panties bunched up over it.


Ted

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks......Mark........ but don't get your panties bunched up over it.


Ted

I wear boxers not briefs, but still have that problem sometimes.

 

[hacker]

Thanks......Mark........ but don't get your panties bunched up over it.


Ted

I wear boxers not briefs, but still have that problem sometimes.

Way too much information...... :shock:



Hacker

 

[Anonymous]

Hacker I thought you cared.

 

[hacker]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Germany- ... 4F/1332951

 

[zoomer]

A moment frozen in time...
B-10s from Hamilton Field coming over San Francisco, January 28, 1936.
Visible in the distance is the not yet completed Golden Gate Bridge.

(click pic to enlarge: 1800x1218 px)

A visual poem in form and scale...
The stern of the Graf Zeppelin, at mooring somewhere in Germany, late 1920s-early '30s.

(click pic to enlarge: 800x1101 px)

When giants lived in the sky...
The Graf coming down to land at Cairo, Egypt, April 11, 1931.

 

[hacker]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled ... id=0261581


One for you, Zoomer!

 

[Pete17]

Great shot of the B17!!
I've just finished reading a great book written by the pilot of Memphis Belle.
Heaps of great info and pics of the B17

Cheers
Pete

 

[Roughwear]

Great shot of the B17!!
I've just finished reading a great book written by the pilot of Memphis Belle.
Heaps of great info and pics of the B17

Cheers
Pete

I also enjoyed reading Bob Morgan's book too. He was quite character! Interesting section of B29 missions to Japan.