Miami last century

Hi Joe, the Avianca was one of two on winterlease from Ambassodor

Some fresh scans from 1995

rgds
EC

What a nice selection of aircraft in the pictures! Love the BA 747 and the British 757 leased by Avianca? Which company had they leased the aircraft from? or who was the previous operator?

Joe

Some very lovely aeroplanes! Florida was always the place for exotic old generation types. Last century was clearly the best one for civil aviation. :rolleyes:

Wow, even more amazing shots 🙂
I didnt know the A320 wore Air Canada’s old red livery!
Some true classics in there.

Unbelievable exotica. Miami was No.1 no doubt.

Without doubt the best thread on here in a long time IMHO 🙂

Thanks for the memories 😀

rgds
EC

All the best wishes for this new year!

I hope everybody on this forum will find the time, the motivation and the means to see all the planes they wish to see.

To continue the Miami series, here are some more from 1992

rgds, EC

Wow, more amazing catches 🙂 Great.
Merry xmas.

Love the Ecuatoriana 707 !

Fantastic shots, thanks for taking the time to upload.

a mini 727 special

This American 727 was actually taken in Washington Dulles, but I was on my way to Miami.

rgds
EC

Merry christmas to you all

thanks for the replies guys and great sets of photos Culpano

The scanning of the slides is something I have been practising for many years,
I have the advantage that I always used fujifilm which unlike kodachrome makes automatic removal of dustspots and scrachtes possible. The scanning is done with a Nikon Coolscan V which has 4000dpi resolution, though this is not needed for the relatively small pictures in this posting.
Processing is done in photoshop CS4, not a particular choice but this happens to be what I have. In most cases I have to adjust the levels (make the ruler start at both the left and right side) and I mostly apply automatic contrast to punch up the colors. The grain is reduced with filter/noise/reduce noise usually at level 4 or 5 setting. For some heavier cases you can use add-ons like noise ninja. The reducing noise normally also helps to improve sharpness, but sometimes the unsharp mask is needed to improve the image.

Here is another series. These have been on photobucket for several years so photobucket has been compressing them several times. Still usuable I hope

I saw this electra has been on the move recently to start another live as waterbomber.

rgds
EC

Excellent old MIA shots there EC (I see you feature in one too…. the SAHSA 737 includes your shadow cast be the low sun). Nice Ecuador Army sabreliner there too luckily sitting just right for shots. I remember returning to MIA after previously having been treated to a good selection of South American goodies only to find that Iberia DC9s had started doing many of the routes.

How are you scanning these shots ? I mean what sort of resolution are you using and what post scan processing for removing the grain ? What typically do you do with one slide or neg… you know … scan at (whatever resolution)… a bit of colour/contrast correction … some (but not too much) smoothing to eliminate grain ?

Fantastic. Some wonderful retro birds there.

A feast of fotos on a Sunday morning, 27vet will be pleased! 🙂

A glorious selection of photo’s both props and old jets,but my absolute favourite has to be the Burlington Air Express DC-8 gourgeous :). Thanks all for posting.