Hello from Central Texas - N121WS (1978 Turbo Piper Arrow III)
Greetings from central Texas (1T7 - Kestrel Airpark)! We have had N121WS (aka Wicked Sandy) since 2021. She has taken us to several destinations since we have had her. Most recently to MBPV and MBGT a couple of weeks ago. The picture below was taken by a friend of ours that accompanied us on the trip. This was our first international trip in Wicked Sandy.
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A most excellent photograph and a great way to fly with somebody else on your wing. Enjoy have fun and look forward to seeing more photos. Carl
48 yrs A/P IA DAL aircraft inspector. 172N
Welcome to the group!
Great looking plane. The paint work is very classy! Beautiful!
Jim "Doc Griff" Griffin
PA28 - 161
Chicago area
Thanks! Our neighbor and friend, Brian Lloyd, flies down to the Caribbean every year and this year we tagged along. I have always had flying down the islands in our plane as a bucket list item. Providenciales and Grand Turks just got us motivated to fly further down the islands next year. Below is our camera ship, Brian's Marchetti SF260, N91BL. It is a beautiful and fast airplane that he uses for upset training.
Thanks! I like the paint scheme, but the bottom color isn't our favorite. It looks blue in the picture, but it's really purple. We had the plane in Las Vegas and the wing tips have faded and peeled with the desert sun. Someday, I would like to change the purple to red or blue. I have been concentrating on upgrading the avionics and the engine for now. Next on our list is interior (seats are original) and last on our list is the paint.
That purple to blue shift is why I used to only capture photos on 35mm slides instead of negatives on print film. Only time I got print photos was with the pin-hole cameras which took 110 film rolls. Had experiences early on where the developer (and later computer algorithms) worked hard to rectify colors on print film to what they thought were correct. Even had a college professor try an experiment where he painted a Christmas tree pink to see what would happen at the photo development shop after they developed the negatives and printed the photo. Yup, the printed picture came back with a green tree. Slides were the raw image and exactly what I wanted.
Many of today's cameras are the same as the old school print developer where the try to adjust the image as best they can.
Ahhhh... The good 'ole days...
Using a good SLR in raw mode usually does not shift the colors. Downside is it commonly eats additional storage space.
Regarding the upcoming restoration plans, if the windows do not already have a layer of UV blocking film, might consider this as one of the first steps.