Nine-O-Nine B-17G Engine

Apart from the fact that I'm a sucker for a good radial engine, the tones here are luscious.

what's not to love about this?

This B17 flew over my house. My wife was vacuuming. Through the vacuum noise I could hear a radial engine. Being a pilot for 30 years its like a sixth sense. It's like that scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The Deaf Grandma hearing the squeak of a lone squirrel in the family Christmas tree. I think my wife even said, " You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a Plutonium Plant". I dashed outside as "9-0-9" thundered overhead, low on final, I felt like a child again at the airport fence, those 4 radial engines all in sync. It bathed me in a 1940's shadow as it flew overhead. I texted a friend of mine and she told me she knows one of the pilots. So over to the airport the next day. I met Ray who is a pilot for Fedex. I will be adding more to the series as I shot with the Hasselblad, my Mamiya RB67 and my restored Spotmatic.

That's beautiful. Love this, Greg. Very imposing, looking powerful and majestic.

Thomas, I finally took your advice. One Camera, One lens.... Ok, maybe a couple cameras, and one lens..

Awesome, great tonal range

Super nice, superb clarity and velvety tones. I look forward to seeing more from this series!

It's wonderful how the tone of the image accentuates the steel look of the engine. This is really perfect.I visited the Air and Space Museum out by Dulles Int'l in Virginia recently, and my grown sons and I spent quite a bit of time looking at the display of radial engines. We could never figure out how they work, in the sense that a straight six in a car has the pistons inline, each attached to the crankshaft sequentially, but we could not figure out how a radial set of pistons could interconnect to deliver power with each piston impossibly passing through the middle of a crankshaft one piston wide. Guess I'll have to Google that just to find out.

quite nice ... appears to have perfect development ....

thank you for the comments....