Plane & Pilot – September 2019

36 SEPTEMBER 2019 ÇPlane&Pilot a blimp, at least not technically. Dirigibles can be rigid or semi-rigid airships, their stru ...

planeandpilotmag.com 37 A NEW FUTURE FOR AIRSHIPS? Since the demise of the category as a mover of people in the mid-1930s, airsh ...

BLIMPS & THE WORLDWIDE HELIUM SHORTAGE Helium. It’s the stuff of childhood birthday balloons and weird chipmunk voices, but ...

views of the environment. The idea is to create a premier experience for the passengers, and the Airlander does it. The level of ...

40 SEPTEMBER 2019 ÇPlane&Pilot C AVU conditions are rare in Greenland. Today, that’s exactly what I have in northeast Canada ...

planeandpilotmag.com 41 Atlantic, G for Greenland and BW for its original name). From a pilot’s point of view, there are four pr ...

42 SEPTEMBER 2019 ÇPlane&Pilot was minimal, as the inner fjord was fed by water runoff from the ice cap rather than the salt ...

A PREMIER PHOTO CONTEST FROM If it’s about flying and you think it’s a great shot, send it in! It’s free to enter and you could ...

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Taking photographs of planes in the air from the ground is easy.... not! This great shot of a biplane going over the top of a lo ...

THE EQUIPMENT This article isn’t about the gear you’ll need to take airplane shots, but we need to discuss it if the rest of the ...

planeandpilotmag.com 47 Another amazing shot by Jim Koepnick, this P-51D captured at Oshkosh AirVenture, shows how all of the ch ...

48 SEPTEMBER 2019 ÇPlane&Pilot telephoto lenses are great if you’re a pro and are looking to capture images of aircraft flyi ...

planeandpilotmag.com 49 done early in the morning or in the late afternoon/early evening. That’s when the light is nice and the ...

50 SEPTEMBER 2019 ÇPlane&Pilot Is this Sea Fury deadsticking it in? It's not, though it sure looks like it. That's because t ...

planeandpilotmag.com 51 dilemma of aviation photography ( for planes with pro- pellers, at least). What’s the solution? Well, im ...

ABOVE: A lot of us take photographs at air shows, but danger looms. Keeping other shutterbugs out of the scene is a constant cha ...

planeandpilotmag.com 53 and no one wants to see a shot of a plane with a dozen other people milling about in their khaki shorts ...

When it comes to shooting small planes in the big sky, formation fl ying and smoke can be your friend. Here, a gaggle of warbird ...

planeandpilotmag.com 55 other elements. A shot of a Reno racer, let’s say a highly modified Sea Fury, in flight is interesting. ...