Radials at Dawn

[pegger]

A good morning Hump....that's all they needed!

from Wikipedia
"The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces based in China. Creating an airlift presented the USAAF a considerable challenge in 1942: it had no units trained or equipped for moving cargo, and no airfields existed in the China Burma India Theater (CBI) for basing the large number of transports that would be needed. Flying over the Himalayas was extremely dangerous and made more difficult by a lack of reliable charts, an absence of radio navigation aids, and a dearth of information about the weather"

read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hump

A C54 taxis past a parked C47 and the Flying Tigers P40's as it makes it's way to the runway for the early morning lift to Kunming, China...

[Flying Trucker]

Nice shot and interesting Link...

The "Hump" was also known as the "Aluminum Trail or Aluminum Highway"...

http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArch ... 9hump.aspx

[yancovitch]

interesting perspective.....kept trying to pull the right side of my window with the cursor to see the rest of the plane

[pegger]

Thanks guys. I built the scenery myself for use in an upcoming event on a popular FSX multiplayer server. The intent is to simulate a mass airlift from india to china, using the correct period aircraft, and good replicas of the period airfields.

I was testing the scenery when I captured the shot.

@yan...I personnally like shots like this where things are not exactly centered, and there is depth to the scene with forground and background objects for better immersion. It provides a better sense of the shot being candid and in the moment. Glad you enjoyed it.