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Vintage Airplanes 2013
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$14.95
Vintage Airplanes Calendar
Vintage Airplanes pictures classic aircraft from the golden age of aviation. With photographs and descriptions by Dan Simonsen, each page includes a history of the model. The calendar delights fans of vintage aircraft, while its sales benefit the Golden Air Age Museum, a nonprofit educational institution founded to educate visitors about the early days of aviation.
14 x 22 inches, open
About this year's edition:
This year's calendar is different from previous calendars. As I wrote the monthly descriptions, I discovered that of the 12 airplanes featured in this year's calendar six of them are one-of-a-kind aircraft. They are either the only one of their kind, such as the Grimes Flying Lab Foundation Beech 18, Andy Hein's Waco CRG, or Bob Coolbaugh's Curtiss-Ely Pusher, or they are the only one of their type that is still flying, such as Tom Pinkerton's Waco RNF or Andy Hein's Waco YKC-S.
The rarity of the aircraft in this year's calendar makes me realize that the underlying theme to this year's calendar is the devotion the owners and pilots have to preserving aviation history. Without their dedication to keep the aircraft flying, these beautiful pieces of history would certainly have found their way to extinction. I get to be the lucky to fly next to them, to see these aircraft "slip the surly bonds of earth."
To photograph this year's 12 calendar beauties, I took somewhere between 100 to 300 analog or digital images per airplane, or well over 1,000 photos. Taking that many images presents its own logistical challenges. I joke that a one-terabyte hard drive just doesn't last as long as it once did.
This year's 12 planes come from across the United States: California to Florida, Ohio to Pennsylvania, and Virginia to Louisiana.
Occasionally, I'm asked how I took a particular photo. For the image looking nearly straight down at the T-6, I took the photograph from a hay shoot in a Navion. Yes, a hay shoot, once used to drop hay to wild horses. There was an opening in the rear of the cabin that was just large enough to drop a bale of hay from.
The beautiful Cessna 140 was shot right at sunset. We were chasing the light to get that shot. The colors in Andy Heins' Cabin Waco seem to just radiate when I shot his plane. Once again we were in that golden hour before sunset. Bob Coolbaugh's Curtiss-Ely Pusher was a race against the weather. We did the photo shoot on a Saturday instead of our scheduled Sunday shoot, because Mother Nature decided not to cooperate.
–Dan Simonson
Beech 18
Owner: Flying Lab Foundation
1931 Stinson Junior Model S
Owner: Jim Hammond
Waco CRG
Owner: Pete Heins
1917 Rumpler C.V
Owner: Golden Age Air Museum
Curtiss-Ely Pusher
Owner/Pilot: Bob Coolbaugh
Cessna 140
Owner: Eric Medsger
1935 Waco YKC-S
Owner: Andy Heins
1930 Waco KNF
Owner: Tim Pinkerton
Aeronca "Tandem"
Owner: Jim Hammond
T-6 Texan
Owner: Rick Martin
1930 Waco RNF
Owner: Susan Theodorelos
T-34 Mentor
Owner: Cris Jones