(Photograph copyright 2020 by Dan Routh)
Forest Service air tanker pilot. Asheboro, North Carolina.
Tanker Pilot
Category: Airplane
WOW
Wings Over Wayne Airshow 2019. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Goldsboro, North Carolina.
(All photographs copyright 2019 by Dan Routh)
Waco
(Photograph copyright 2018 by Dan Routh)
From years ago, then 85 year old Ken Brugh pilots his Waco RNF biplane over Piedmont North Carolina. Ken was an extraordinary aviator. RIP.
Cessna Selfie
(Photograph copyright 2017 by Dan Routh)
Doing aerial work over Greensboro, North Carolina.
Cessna Pilot
(Photograph copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)
Shooting aerials in a 172. Greensboro, North Carolina.
Fire Bomber
North Carolina Forest Service fire tanker. Asheboro, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2016 by Dan Routh)
My Dad Smiled Today
The sound of a Packard built Rolls Royce Merlin engine rang out at the Asheboro, North Carolina airport Saturday afternoon. Alex Newsom of Cheraw, South Carolina flew his dad’s P-51D Â Mustang into the airport for the annual fly-in. Arguably the best propeller powered fighter ever built, my Dad flew 39 combat missions in an identical one during his service in World War II. He was looking over my shoulder all afternoon and smiling.
(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)
Wright Brothers Redone
(image copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
On December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We produced the image above at Jockey’s Ridge, a huge sand dune not far from the original flight site, for an outdoor apparel poster. We tried to produce it in the same vein as the famous photograph of that historic day. Like the Wright Brothers, we had our share of problems. After a couple of flights trying to fly into the wind the wrong way in order to get our angle, we crashed the hang glider and ended our day.
First Flight, December 17, 1903 (National Park Service Photograph)
