The Wings Over the Rockies Museum here in Denver is hosting our stop this week. I was visiting yesterday with the museum’s curator, who recently purchased a 1938 Graphotype and had it in a hangar near the B-17. Graphotypes are embossing machines that were used to create dog tags in WWII. [...]
Tag Archive 'Whopa'
Yesterday I made my maiden flight in a B-17. I sat in the bombardier’s seat in the nose of the plane during take off and landing. It’s quite the perspective as the heavy bomber lifts off the runway. The seat is tucked inside a glass bubble on the very front of the [...]
Formation Flying
Posted in EAA on May 27th, 2008
Spokane is rich in aviation treasures. I’ve already shot over 5 hours of footage and haven’t even joined up with the B-17 yet.
Tonight I flew in my first Stearman (a biplane that was used as a military trainer in WWII.) Whopa trained in a Stearman before training in a B-17 before [...]
Non-video “video”
Posted in EAA on Feb 21st, 2008
Here’s a fun “video” I produced that is comprised of 1,736 still photographs. It’s a little more artsy than the other videos I typically produce, but I like it.
In late May, I will be traveling cross-country on this B-17 to document a leg of its national tour from Spokane, WA to Ogden, [...]
Arthur McElmurry
Posted in Family on Feb 8th, 2008
Arthur Lee McElmurry of Texarkana, Texas passed away February 6, 2008 in a local hospital. He is survived by Dorweta, his wife of more than 60 years; two daughters Chauna Townsend and her husband Gene and Leigh Ann Lane and her husband Ernest; four grandchildren, Brian Lane and wife Leslie of Ft. Worth, Tx., Kristin [...]