I know, it’s probably a Percival Prentice, not a Chipmunk. Got confused because Hergé usually took some liberty with aircrafts in his comics, but there’s also definitely a “Chippie” in the “Black Island“. Red/white with a bubble canopy.
Anyway, you get it. A proper Chipmunk should run a DH Gipsy engine. And the guy who writes this cannot currently fly his plane because of Gipsy cylinder issues. Go figure…
Not really planned. But I ended up there. And I will never forget the brutal beauty of what I’ve seen at Amboseli.
(shot with a Fuji X-Pro2 /55-200 + pp in Lightroom)
Last weekend, the airshow celebrating the Battle of Britain took place in Duxford. Long before the crews started the engines of their Messerschmitt, Hurricane, Lysander and other wonderful, 80 years-old flying machines, the show started on the ground, for those who had access to the flight line. A crowd of volunteers participated in giving a unique, 1940 atmosphere.
Winston Churchill
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Traveling to Duxford is like playing with a time machine. Remembering that, as Churchill once said, “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
It’s a country far from here. More than an island, it’s another planet. How could one not fall in love with these magnetic landscapes, so beautiful and reminiscent of the first hours of the Earth? I have started to upload more of these shots at 500px but here’s a sneak peak:
Cockpit view: San Bernardino Pass (2065m) and the Swiss Alps, from Bad Ragaz, to Locarno. 🇨🇭
AMPA – Association pour le Maintien du Patrimoine Aéronautique
A very nice review of an equally nice watch. While Longines is not a brand which comes spontaneously to my mind when discussing aviation and pilot watches, they do have a legitimacy in the field, having provided the Royal Air Force with a nice, simple, readable time instrument back in the 30s (and up to the 60s). The RAF 6b-159.
Full review by Monochrome.
First attempt at “shooting stars”, from Creux du Van, Switzerland. Suboptimal conditions with an almost full moon and a thin layer of clouds. But an opportunity to learn new techniques and fool around with Lightroom sliders.
The Elysée Photography museum will soon move to new premises, downtown, in the vicinity of Lausanne’s CFF station. I hope they will keep their old photobooth. Time for a true analog selfie.
Flying the DHC-1 Chipmunk over a beautiful winter scenery: Swiss Alps.
And I just realize that my work is available in the digital version of Plateform Magazine. What I wrote 6 years ago is still true: I want my photographs to be like the first 5 lines of a novel. That’s why I always put a character in them.
