Plane Crashes- sorry if already covered.

[russ55]

Photographer Travels the World Taking Pictures of Abandoned Airplane Wrecks

• DL Cade · Apr 21, 2013

For his project “Happy End,” German photographer Dietmar Eckell has travelled all over the world to find and photograph abandoned airplane wreckages with positive endings. That last part may seem like a paradox, but all of the 15 wreckages Eckell has shot actually do have happy endings: no one on board died, and they were all rescued from the remote locations where they crash landed.
Now, after completing this mammoth project and producing some extraordinary pictures, he wants to put together a coffee table photo book that tells and (obviously) illustrates these stories, and he’s turned to crowdfunding site Indiegogo for help.

Getting a print run of a high-quality coffee table photo book isn’t cheap, and so Eckell is asking people to donate and help him reach at least $4,000 to get started. In exchange, he’s offering everything from access to a 15-episode “Making Of” series, to the book itself, to museum-quality fine art prints of your choice at incredible prices.
Here are just a few of the 50+ photos that will illustrate his book:







With 43 days left, Eckell has already reached almost $3,000, so we’re not concerned that he’ll miss his goal (or even his stretch goal of $6,000), but if you want to get in on the discounted action, sooner is better than later. There are still 29 “early bird” deals left between the book and the book+acknowledgement packages, and those probably won’t last long.
If you want to support Eckell, be it with $9 in exchange for access to the “Making Of” series, or $800 in exchange for 100 x 150cm (~40 x 60in) limited edition, museum-quality print, you can head over to Indiegogo by clicking here. Alternatively, if you want to see more pictures from Eckell’s Happy End project before you decide, you can check them out over on his website.

[goingbush]

Thanks, I just bought the book, (hope its in english)

[Rusty Bulkhead]

The top photo is a Bristol Freighter

Looks in pretty good nick but would be one hell of a recovery exercise to get it out. With the front clam shell doors removed, it appears to be an ideal 'shed' to park ones boat.

More pix here - http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jsp...7627855265914/

[d2dave]

I do like the bit at the start that says that no one died. My favourite TV show is Air Crash Investigation.

I especially love the episodes when, at the start, or early in the show, they are interviewing survivors.

There is an old saying amongst pilots. "Any landing you walk away from is a good one"

[stallie]

The one on the red sand (C310) is just off the Anne Beadell highway, a couple of hundred clicks east of Laverton.

[goingbush]

The one on the red sand (C310) is just off the Anne Beadell highway, a couple of hundred clicks east of Laverton.

good pickup



but if VH-FYZ C/N: 310Q0907 crashed in 1993 per http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft...000662949.html
whats it doing at Tooradin in 2004 (same reg & serial number) http://www.myaviation.net/search/pho...hp?id=00075662

[Hay Ewe]

good pickup



but if VH-FYZ C/N: 310Q0907 crashed in 1993 per Aircraft VH-FYZ (1973 Cessna 310Q C/N 310Q0907) Photo by Peter Beard (Photo ID: AC662949)
whats it doing at Tooradin in 2004 (same reg & serial number) MyAviation.net - Aviation Photo Gallery

probably rebuilt, nothing too special, its not a pressurized aircraft.
Not too hard either, depends on the depth of ones pockets and ability to get financial return

Hay Ewe

PS, good thread, interesting

[goingbush]

but its still in the desert !!!

[Eevo]

There is an old saying amongst pilots. "Any landing you walk away from is a good one"

any landing where you can reuse the plane is a great one

[numpty]

Another name for a safe landing is a "controlled crash"
We used to have a Bristol Freighter at our old training ground in Melbourne.