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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

An experiment in mobile photo blogging...

This is an experiment.

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The above photo and line of text was posted directly from my mobile phone (I'm adding this comment in a later edit). Ain't technology wonderful? Now as I wander around and see neat aviation-related stuff, I can immortalize it here via a post-on-the-go. The method involves creating a "picture message" and sending it to an e-mail address specified by the nice Blogger folks. I think I like it!

4 comments:

Chip said...

That's a decent photo given that it likely came from a mobile phone. Why is there a tarp over the glass?

Frank Van Haste said...

The phone is a Nokia from Verizon. The resolution is 1280 x 960. I was impressed as well.

The cover has a two-fold purpose: It keeps blowing sand etc. from scratching the plexiglass (you wouldn't use glass -- too heavy); and it minimizes leaks of rain water. When I take it off it lives in a canvas bag in the baggage compartment.

Chip said...

Thanks for the explanation. I wouldn't have thought leakage would be a problem. Interesting.

Frank Van Haste said...

Chip...

Light general aviation aircraft are notoriously leaky (especially when they get old). It's a riveted sheet aluminum structure and it is always being "worked" by the forces of flight. Actually, N631S is pretty tight as such things go. I flew through quite a bit of rain this morning and I don't think any of it came inside.