Luke Skywalker?

[Timmyjoe]

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Got a chance to see my kid brother the flyboy on Christmas (he and his buddies own and fly vintage WWII airplanes). On the way home my son asked, "How come your brother looks like Luke Skywalker?"

 

Leica IIIC w/Nikkor SC 5cm f1.4 & Tri-X

 

Best,

-Tim

Edited December 29, 2017 by Timmyjoe

[Bill W]

Very nice and thank your brother or keeping alive WWII aircraft. My dad was a B17 pilot at age 20.

[Graham (G4FUJ)]

Very nice and thank your brother for keeping alive WWII aircraft. My dad was a B17 pilot at age 20.

 

Hear hear! Great portrait.

My Uncle was a C47 pilot in his twenties.  Continued flying after the war with a DC-3 (as a number did), hopping down to Channel Islands and across to Belfast, until a fatal crash just after takeoff from Manchester Ringway around '51 or '52. Before the war he worked in Fleet Street (journalism).

I'm still trying to see inside a C47/DC-3, just for interest and that link back to past - I never knew him.

[Timmyjoe]

Thanks everyone. I took a few pics that day and here's the one my brother liked the best, and put up on his Facebook feed. Since he owns and flies a Steerman biplane trainer from the 1930's, and the pic was taken with a Leica from 1948, he wanted me to age it some.

 

 

Best,

-Tim

Edited December 30, 2017 by Timmyjoe

[Bill W]

Aging works well.

[stuny]

Excellent, and his Army Air Corps hat has a 50-mission crush.  He no doubt knows the Commemorative Air Force, formerly called Confederate Air Force.

[RoySmith]

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My dad was a B-24 pilot at age 20

 

 

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[stuny]

Ry -

 

That was the Liberator, probably built by Ford Motor Company, and a somewhat difficult a/c to fly.  Louis Zamporini's B-24 was shot down (read the superb book, Unbreakable)