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Yet another digifiddled (thanks Andrea for the word) airplane from the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Some time during the late 1960s, the Air Force placed a requirement for a "counterinsurgency aircraft". This is a one of only four built(hence experimental) from Piper Aircraft Company (yes they made Piper Cubs too).
This looks like a P-51 Mustang with a turboprop (jet) engine but it is an airplane built from scratch and labeled as a "PA-48 Enforcer". The PA stands for Piper Aircraft.
I am 99% sure Piper must have paid to use the original North American P-51 plans to build this "new plane".
Obviously I had fun with this image turning it into something semi-mysterious by blackening the background and applying a filter or two.
Bill:)
Comments (29)
LaTechno
I like the effect you put on it......colours just fit to it. Nice ART.
THROBBE
Very cool work Bill!
bimm3d
wonderful work!!!!
DAVER2112
Really nice work. :)
Rainastorm
Very cool...looks like lots of fun! :-)
lyron
Wonderful postwork. Great image!!
flavia49
fabulous work!!!
flora-crassella
wonderful photo work!
durleybeachbum
I love it! The air take area looks like a happy porpoise sometimes (flips in and out of perception)
drace68
Great filter work, but could we see a regular view of this plane? Wiki's photos are small.
jendellas
Love the effect Bill. Whats next :o)
PD154
these are coming out great Bill, nifty stuff!
cfulton
You had as much fun as Piper did! Cheers, Clive
Osper
Bill you're on glideslope, just a little left of course. The original aicraft was built by an outfit by the name of Cavalier. They develeoped the original concept using a Rolls Royce engine. Nobody was interested (IE the USAF) because Cavalier didn't have the "clout". They folded and Piper bought the rights. With a different engine it was tested by the USAF but still never sold. If'n I remember correctly! I do remember the tests though, early seventies! Oh yeah. Neat picture!
Alz2008
Wonderful worked really well..
beachzz
Amazing work, Bill!! Your ears must have been burning this weekend, you were mentioned many, many times and we raised more than one glass in your honor!!
bazza
Superb "tweaking" of this photo Bill, kind of makes it look spooky lol, well done!!
frankie96
To bad it didn't get built...all the retro stuff is in now..in cars anyway...
orig_buggy
I like the rough grainy look
goodoleboy
A new one on me! I didn't know Piper went in for this technology. Love the propeller blades and spinner. Glowing edges filter used on this image? Not sure about which grainy filter you used. And, haven't seen you around my gallery over the past few days.
elfin14doaks
Gorgeous work Bill. Great job, and very cool information.
npauling
I love your experimenting, it gives a great effect. That's a great word, 'digifiddled', it really says a lot.
moonrancher
Very cool! The grainy texture plus the black background give it a little bit of the comic book feel.
MagikUnicorn
COOL POSTWORK
auntietk
I love it when you do the filter thing with your plane shots. You grab my attention with these in a way a straight photograph of a plane doesn't!
debbielove
Mysterious! Dark ... Evil looking.. lol I liked this plane. Never saw before our visit.. I've got a clear shot of the plane... somehow! (It was cramped in there!) lol... Will get there... Great work Bill.... Rob.
junge1
Great treatment and background info Bill!
Buffalo1
Air Progress did an article on this bird when it was tested. I remember reading about it when I was a youngster. Neat digifiddle.
nikolais
great pov and effect. looks like you mastering those graphic gadgets pretty successfully!