South African Airways Historic Flight Douglas DC-4 ZS-BMH
Pedro Gabriel Oliveira Mello
Alessandro Iglesias
Piotr Bieluszewski
Marcin Głodzik
Eduardo Perez
PHAER
Martin Krupka
Fabio Lima Ferreira
Andre Nordheim
MatheusObst
Andre Giron Bernaud
Dion Vercoulen
Image ID: 477678
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Operator: South African Airways Historic Flight - ZS-BMH
Aircraft: Douglas - DC-4
Airport: South Africa - Johannesburg - OR Tambo Intl (JNB / FAJS)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2012-9-22 by Renato Serra Fonseca [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 1/500s, f/8.0 at 16mm ISO 250
Photographer's remark
(29.10.2014, 15:44 CET)
As the sun is setting, we headed back to JNB. It was already a bumpy ride when I made this shot. I like the way it feels that the sun is being cut by the propeller. This plane is nearly 70 years old, and it was the last built DC-4. It was a major honor to fly on it, but mother nature had some evil plans for our arrival in JNB: hail, thunderstorms, extreme rain and lots of planes orbiting the airport. After 25 minutes orbiting and not being able to line up, a zillion scary ups and downs, extreme turbulence and to scare us even more, heavy noise of hail hitting the fuselage and propellers making the engine sound funny, we made a smooth and safe landing on runway 03R. Sorry about the quality, but a dirty and scratchy 67 years old window does not help much and the turbulence makes it even hard to get the perfect shot. That plus the darkness. When flying a historical plane, make sure the weather is 110% nice!
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