Here’s a special treat for all the aircraft nerds. It’s a 1973-vintage Continental DC-10, mothballed on the tarmac at Kingman, AZ, shot in July, 1996. 18 years ago, this month! I recall it being about a million degrees and a million % humidity, with some refreshing rain on the hills, just out of reach. Look how close I could park in those pre-9/11 days. No fences, no security. Impossible today. Looking back on it, I can’t believe I decided to drive away and night shoot someplace else! It must have resonated at the time too, since I returned a few years later to nightshoot a flock of TWA L10-11s parked in this same spot. A quick check on Continental N68048 reveals this airframe’s interesting history, from it’s birth in Long Beach in 1973, to it’s use testing Winglet designs in 1981, to it’s death in the shredder at Goodyear/Phoenix in 2002.
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