Viewfinder View 13 – There are many ways for an aircraft to die
On 18/04/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Most aircraft live to be well respected seniors but for all of them the day comes when they must face the cruel reality: no more flying! Some will have a second life as training facilities, others will burn while the firemen hone their skills, still others are disassembled and the material is recycled. Whichever way we look at it, forever grounded aircraft are a sad sight. Luckily, unlike us humans, aircraft cannot ponder their own mortality…
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Viewfinder View 12 – Are they envious?
On 14/04/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Past presidents looking at the carriage of the new one… are they envious?
Viewfinder View 11 – Wouldn’t you love to have a coach ticket for this seat-row?
On 04/04/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Well, there was only one way to travel like this… if you were the third pilot on one of the very long flights of Continental Airlines. The skipper slept like a baby until it was time to releive his colleague up front.
Viewfinder View 9 – Should they hire basket-ball players as baggage handlers?
On 07/03/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
…may be they should indeed!
Viewfinder View 8 – Things do contract in the cold
On 22/02/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Flying at high altitude, this Airbus 330 wing shows clearly how material contracts and gets distorted in the extreme cold found there. Once back in the warmer air on descent, the same area was smooth as a baby’s bottom.
Viewfinde View 7 – Desperation
On 03/02/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
On her knees looking after the fast receding figure of her mom… this tired little girl will probably remember Madrid airport with less than enthusiasm.
Viewfinder View 6 – Helpful Security
On 16/01/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Not aviation related but still very nice… If a roll of paper from the cash-register needs to be rolled up again, what better resource to use than the security guy. If somebody decided to rob this hamburger joint, throwing the roll against the robber would probably have had the right surprise effect!
Viewfinder View 5 – Passenger 57?
On 05/01/2012, in Viewfinder view, by steve
I am sure you remember the movie Passenger 57… There is a scene in which one of the bad guys gets his neck broken while seated in his airplane scene and then they cover his head with his hat to keep the cabin crew from asking questions too early. I was reminded of this scene when I found a passenger covered head to legs next to us on a recent flight to Madrid.
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Viewfinder view 4- Lost and found
On 19/12/2011, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Ever wondered what happens to your bag after you give it up to your favorite airline? Check these two photos which I call lost and found.
LOST....
...AND FOUND!
Viewfinder view 3 – Falling out or climbing in?
On 05/12/2011, in Viewfinder view, by steve
Getting stuff into and out of an aircraft’s hold is no simple matter. On occasion the guys handling our baggage must perform acrobatics to get the job done. Look at this picture. Is he falling out… or is he climbing in????
Viewfinder view 2 – Would you accept your car with wiring like this?
On 11/11/2011, in Viewfinder view, by steve
If you have a camera handy, it is always a good idea to look around you in the cabin. Plenty of stuff to record! Like this under-seat wiring on an Air France Airbus 330 en-route to Washington D.C. OK, all this is low current stuff so unlikely to start a fire but still… would you accept your car with wiring like this?
Viewfinder view 1 – New series on Roger-Wilco
On 03/11/2011, in Viewfinder view, by steve
I am sure that many of our readers are like me. Wherever we go, we haul with us a camera and we snap away at everything that takes our fancy with aircraft and related stuff taking a prominent role. Some of those photos will turn out to be great works of art, others are just so so but they all do record something we thought was worthy of immortalizing.
But taking a closer look at some of those photos or indeed the aviation world around us you will see that they are full of surprising detail worthy of being shown in their own right.
Image details of human interest, emotions, strange or unique situations, natural phenomena, a pose, a frozen moment… things that one would never have noticed had it not been for the time freezing ability of the camera.
Our archives have a lot of such pictures and details clipped from pictures and I have decided to share them with you for two reasons. I hope you will enjoy them, making your visit to Roger-Wilco that much more worthwhile. Even more to the point is my expectation that these pictures will provide the impetus for you to share your photos or if you do not as yet have things to share, to look around you and get a few interesting viewfinder views to share with the Roger-Wilco community.
Send your contributions (in jpeg format) to info@roger-wilco.net with a short description and we will do the rest.
For starters, here is a gem from a US airport. The guy in the chair is not a client, he is the shoe shiner. I wonder how many clients he lost that day as they passed by not wanting to disturb his sleep….
