Aerial photos

[blackbob]

An offshoot of the Old Photos thread.. how about sharing aerial photos?
It's something you always look at if you see one on someone's wall
And a farm always, ALWAYS, seems to look untidy from the air!!! so don't worry about that...

We have several but I don't want to go disturbing my mum this time of night, so I'll post these for now, which I took the only time I was ever in a plane.. red-eye from East Midlands to Aberdeen, Nov 1982, we didn't quite fly over our house but @Chae1 will recognise this as the River Dee, and I have since baled straw and carted silage in quite a few of these fields
For those of a gardening disposition, the farm between the two parallel straight roads, is Millbank, which belonged at that time to Andersons Roses, I would think the brownish fields are roses.

Viscount

Wasn't so bad in the dark, but when it got daylight and you could see all the pop-riveted panels, some of which didn't seem to fit very well, made me a bit nervous..

 

[Chae1]

Is that the mill inn?

 

[blackbob]

Is that the mill inn?

Yes that's right, we were over the sea then came back over land at Stonehaven (a couple of years before the by-pass)

then over Netherley, Lairhillock and the Mill Inn

 

[roscoe erf]

you took the plunge then nice pictures

 

[Landy Nick]

Nice pictures. Will hopefully add to this tonight. As I have quite a few aerial pictures taken via a kite.

 

[Landy Nick]

A couple here to get this thread going.

 

[Landy Nick]

Some more.

 

[blackbob]

Beautiful photos, @Landy Nick , reminding us that summer is not far away
How did you take those?

 

[Landy Nick]

Beautiful photos, @Landy Nick , reminding us that summer is not far away
How did you take those?

I built this kite aerial photography rig and transmitter from scratch about 15 years ago, originally this carried a 35mm compact camera before the days of digital cameras. Over the years I altered and modified this and eventually built another transmitter, which was far superior over the original transmitter.
Basically there's three controls on the radio. One knob turns the camera a full 360 degrees, the other from horizontal to vertical and the toggle switch for the shutter.
The kite in question is a single line kite, so fairly stable and can be flown in winds no lower then 10mph.

 

[Speedstar]

An offshoot of the Old Photos thread.. how about sharing aerial photos?
It's something you always look at if you see one on someone's wall
And a farm always, ALWAYS, seems to look untidy from the air!!! so don't worry about that...

We have several but I don't want to go disturbing my mum this time of night, so I'll post these for now, which I took the only time I was ever in a plane.. red-eye from East Midlands to Aberdeen, Nov 1982, we didn't quite fly over our house but @Chae1 will recognise this as the River Dee, and I have since baled straw and carted silage in quite a few of these fields
For those of a gardening disposition, the farm between the two parallel straight roads, is Millbank, which belonged at that time to Andersons Roses, I would think the brownish fields are roses.
View attachment 36662 Viscount
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Wasn't so bad in the dark, but when it got daylight and you could see all the pop-riveted panels, some of which didn't seem to fit very well, made me a bit nervous..

Take it that is a MK2 Avro Shackelton you were in .

 

[Landy Nick]

Take it that is a MK2 Avro Shackelton you were in .

Those are turboprop engines, and they look like RR dart engines. I say vickers viscount.

 

[blackbob]

Those are turboprop engines, and they look like RR dart engines. I say vickers viscount.

Yes I think you're right, not that I know anything about planes but it's a Rolls Royce badge and has propellers, and yes pretty sure it was a Viscount.

 

[blackbob]

By the way @Landy Nick I know 'amazing' is a much over-used word nowadays but I can't think of a better word to describe your photos and how you took them, you mentioned 'kite' in your first post but when I saw them I thought perhaps you meant some kind of drone or microlight or something.. Did you invent all that yourself? How high up is the kite? Do you manage to pull the kite down and grab the camera, or does it hit the ground with a bump?

 

[Landy Nick]

By the way @Landy Nick I know 'amazing' is a much over-used word nowadays but I can't think of a better word to describe your photos and how you took them, you mentioned 'kite' in your first post but when I saw them I thought perhaps you meant some kind of drone or microlight or something.. Did you invent all that yourself? How high up is the kite? Do you manage to pull the kite down and grab it, or does it hit the ground with a bump?

The kite is brought, and I have a couple of others for higher wind speeds.
I stumbled across kite aerial photography on the internet by mistake once. Then I thought I have a go at that and made the equipment up for it. As back then you couldn't buy much for kite photography, as compared today.
Although you ain't meant to fly kite over200ft by the CAA rules, although most of these were at taken at 600 to 800ft.
The kite pulls quite hard and it won't just drop out the sky. Unless the wind drops suddenly. Never had that problem yet.
To get the kite down, I tend to ground anchor the line and run up the line with a a little v pulley to pull the kite down. It's much much quicker this way then trying to wind the line in, which can be almost impossible with higher wind speeds.

 

[Red Fred]

Here are some pictures of our neck of the woods taken for historical purposes with a model Piper Cub. The first shows the old water meadow layout, the second was taken in the evening to highlight the various humps and bumps by their shadows, while the third shows our flood meadows and the river.

 

[Landy Nick]

Here are some pictures of our neck of the woods taken for historical purposes with a model Piper Cub. The first shows the old water meadow layout, the second was taken in the evening to highlight the various humps and bumps by their shadows, while the third shows our flood meadows and the river.

Stunning pictures.

Certainly some thought went into those water meadows all those centuries ago. Amazing crop marks.

 

[blackbob]

As a follow-up to my 1984 photo http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?attachments/500-combine-jpg.34733/ this one must have been taken a few days later, the combine is sitting in the same place but dad and me are in the process of stacking the straw, and gone home for lunch?

A small farm next door to our croft, when I was a kid owned by a chap who worked at a local paper mill, then bought by a development company, I rented it for a few years from them, nowadays the buildings have been converted into 2 houses.
You still see the occasional prefab on farms, even today!
By the way the 1-acre field on the right is tatties smothered by couch grass, Roundup in those days was damn expensive, but just fed outwintered cattle there after that