| www.pedestrianx.com: Airshow, Ottawa, Canada 1991 | ||
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I took these pictures as a kid, not long after my 12th birthday, with a Kodak Instamatic
camera. I was obsessed at the time
with aviation and fighter planes. I guess not much has changed since then.
There were two significant events that occurred at this airshow. The first,
it was the second time a Russian MiG-29 Fulcrum appeared at an airshow in
North America, since this was only shortly after the cold war. And, it was
a sad day when a P-51 Mustang failed to come up out of barrell roll and
crashed, killing the pilot Harry Tope (of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan). (Another
photo of this plane can be found here).
The airshow went on, however. I somehow recall taking a photograph of the pilot with his P-51 before any of the planes took to the sky, but I never got that photo back. Oddily, given my luck, when the plane crashed I was in the middle of changing rolls, and didn't get to capture the huge fire ball in the sky, but only was able to get pictures of the dark cloud of smoke. I think it was this unfortunate event that sparked the source of the dreams I have now about crashing airplanes. Remember to click on the thumbnail for the larger photo, if it isn't obvious. contact travis return to pedestrian x |
