Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
... The C-47 wing photo was taken with a wider lens I'm guessing.
It was a zoom lens on an early Canon digital camera. Having just done the calcs (taking into account the sensor size and aperture etc) I make it an equivalent focal length of circa 31.5mm.
Not wanting to get too far away from the original image you posted (great hotel to have that on the wall btw!) I thought that some may appreciate this photo, given the interest in the wing bolts. I have been intimate with every one of these, and have to say that I don't recollect there being 382 of them .. funny how the mind plays tricks but it seems I had (miss) remembered the number as 365, one for each day of the year but, having just checked out
here, it appears to be 328. While unverified I do have the service bulletins etc stacked away somewhere and could check, but that seems like rather too much work - although not as much as inserting and tightening every one of these, even after all these years I still well remember the arm ache from working overhead on that particular job!
