From its huge prop to its signature gullwing stance, the story of the F4U Corsair is the story of a plane designed around an engine. When originally designed in 1938, the Vought engineers were convinced that Pratt & Whitney’s brand-new R-2800 Double Wasp engine (rated at 2,000 HP) was the key to getting the sort of […]
Month: August 2011
Catch some Lightning
I was lucky enough to catch some great summer storms rolling through central Ohio last week, and I snagged a couple fairly decent lightning photos. Although it’s not as difficult as you might imagine to get photos like this, there’s definitely a knack to it, and I’ve gone through a lot of really bad photos before getting […]
Cleared to taxi
No matter how many times I hear a WW-II warbird start and throttle up, it never fails to send a shiver up my spine, and P-51’s are right up at the top of the list. When I got to the warbirds area, there were a handful of Mustangs getting set for a quick jump, and […]
The problem with Stackexchange
Allow me to introduce you to a photo site that most people have never heard of: photo.stackexchange.com. How do I know people haven’t heard of it? Just a hunch, of course, but despite some really excellent content, they’re not exactly “going viral” yet. I’ve been a member for a little better than a year now, […]