The Old Girl in the Field

An old Model B farm tractor that is sitting on the top of the hill at the family farm property. She has been sitting up there as long as I can remember, some 40 plus year at least. In the past I have posted some different images of her in winterish type setting with snow and all but this is a first with the fall. In the grand scheme of things My father still has bream of pulling her down off the hill to work on her, getting her up and running some day or at least to take a good look at her to see if it's even possible.

Landscape #5

A group of boat waiting to go through a look on the Erie Channel near Baldwinsville New York just above Syracuse in the middle of my state. The image is from this past June.

Playing Chicken on the water

This is one of those neat images that I came away with this past summer up in the Thousand Island Region of New York State. These two boats look like they were heading right at each other but in fact they were in no real danger of hitting each other. They did pass close enough for the little sale boat to have some good chop to go through, ruff water. The large boat was a thing of beauty and probably had one hell of a pries tag connected to it. That's the same one on the bottom as well. \

A nice day for sailing

An image from the south end of Cayuga Lake that was taken on September 27th. It was definitely a good day for sailing like these people were doing and also took some nice pictures as well for me.

1935 Ford Paddy Wagon

I stumbled across this antique car while driving down the Vestal Parkway back on July 12th. It had Endicott Police marking on it and was for sale by it's owner. On idea if it is stile for sale or not. I thought that it was a cool old car in any case.

The Thunderbirds at Rochester NY, 2014

Well, this shoot should look familiar. It's the header that I've bean using for the last couple months on my main page. This group of aircraft if you don't know are the United State Air Force's Flight Demonstration Team called The Thunderbirds. They were the main attraction at the Rochester Airshow last year. I aridgenaly thought that I would brake this post up into two seporit one but I changed my mind at the last minute. I hope you enjoy all 30 of these images of the USAF F-16 Thunderbirds as they preform and fly over the flit line at Rochester Airport, NY. I really enjoy going to airshows, maybe I'll find some to go to this year.  

The Lockhead T-33 Silver Star “Mako Shark”

The plane with the big teeth at the Rochester Airshow this year. "I loved this one", the colors and the art work on the front nose. The pilot gave a nice performance with the aircraft at the airshow and about the right time. The sun had just started coming out in patchy spots. As in previous post there is more of a description of the aircraft at the end of this post from the Rochester Airshow site. Hope you enjoy some of the shots I took of this lovely aircraft  :)

Jet Aircraft Museum Mako Shark

The T-33 is one of the most successful jet trainers of all time. When Canada decided to move to jet trainers Lockheed won the competition and Canadair awarded the contract to build the aircraft under license. The RCAF gave the T-33 the name Silver Star in honour of the first Canadian airplane, the Silver Dart As with other aircraft Canadair built under license, there was extensive redeisgn work and new technologies to master. Canada chose the more powerful Rolls Royce Nene engine, which required extensive redesign work. The manufacturing technique for the aircraft was also new to Canadair, as the aircraft was literally split in half and then joined after the engine was installed. The Silver Star began appearing in squadrons and schools in large numbers in 1953. Among operational RCAF squadrons, both Regular and Auxiliary, as well as some Royal Canadian Navy squadrons, the T-33 was used as a trainer and utility aircraft. Perhaps the best-known use of the T-Bird was the Red Knight - the RCAF's official solo aerobatics act. RCN had their own solo display under the name Red Herring in an apparent parody of the RCAF. In the NATO Air Training Plan, which ran from 1950 to 1958, Canadian and NATO pilots received their advanced flying training on the T-33. The T-33 continued in the training role until 20 June 1974. Thereafter, the Silver Star was used as a utility aircraft, towing target drogues for surface to air gunnery for the army and navy, and simulating enemy aircraft for combat training and when equipped with special electronic pods it could simulate an anti-shipping missile. The last T-33 retired on 31 March 2005 having been used by the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at 4 Wing Cold Lake as an ejection seat test bed. Canadair built 656 Silver Stars for the RCAF between 1952 and 1959. Some also appeared in NATO air forces, as aircraft surplus to the RCAF were transferred to France, Greece, Portugal and Turkey under NATO Mutual Assistance in the late 1950s. The fact that the aircraft served for 54 years speaks to the excellence of its design and the quality of its construction and maintenance.