Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on September 07, 2007, 03:56:24 pm
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Hi Folks:
Since this is only tangentially related to photography I thought I'd add it in the Coffee Corner... Having spent a couple of thousand hours inside a De Havilland Twin Otter, I'm rather partial to them. There's a company out of Alberta called Ken Borek Air that has a fleet of about 35 of them, as well as some DC-3's. On their website they have a gallery that shows their planes as well as some scenery shots of the different places they fly. You can see it here:
http://www.borekair.com/index.php?cat=gallery (http://www.borekair.com/index.php?cat=gallery)
Mike.
P.S. If you want to see a video clip of why the call the otter a STOL aircraft (short take off and landing), PM me with an e-address and I'll send you one of a plane landing on a muddy flat up north in a distance about the length of the plane itself. It's about 4MB so be warned if you're on dialup...
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Cool! My spouse flies a small plane, and we plan to go somewhere Far North one of these days (though letting someone *else* do the flying! a Bonanza just isn't the right plane for landing on ice floes ), so we were drooling over the airplane-and-landscape photos. Thanks!
Lisa
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Isn't Ken Borek Air the outfit that evacuated a critically ill scientist from the south pole in the dead of winter when the US Air Force said they couldn't ?
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Isn't Ken Borek Air the outfit that evacuated a critically ill scientist from the south pole in the dead of winter when the US Air Force said they couldn't ?
That's the one... and they used a twotter to do it. The woman developed cancer and needed to be lifted out for treatment
Mike.
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a Bonanza just isn't the right plane for landing on ice floes ), so we were drooling over the airplane-and-landscape photos. Thanks!
Come to think of it, I've never seen any Beechcraft with tundra tires... A right fast little plane, though.
And you're welcome!
Mike.