Wednesday, April 9, 2008

HEY! I got off my duff and added another photo, a view of Hancock Field looking northeast.
I am suspecting that there was some darkroom trickery done to add the majestic clouds in this and several of the other photos in this series . The reason is that one of these photos in particular has big clouds over the hills but there aren't any big shadows from those clouds.
The round topped hangar on the left in this view (which still exists and is over on Oak Street, to the northwest of Hancock College) can be seen in the film THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS starring Jimmy Stewart. The 2 hangars immediately to it's right serve as a cafe in a scene in the film. The buildings further down to the right appear in the film as a military flight training field.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ross,
Glad you sent us this link to your blog (well our blog rofl). Is that my plane in one of your pictures?!!
We love the new logo and had it printed on a sweatshirt... got lot's of complements and inquiries as to what HHAF is. Hope to be back in SMX soon.
Pat and Linda
PS: We need a new Ross drawing for the airplane room!

Psicomom said...

Is the picture of the SMX, black and white w/huge cloud, a picture that can be purchased? I would like to find out if there are prints of that picture available please~!

YerSis