Culver Photos Wanted

[Bill Poynter]

I would like to start rotating photos of members planes on the home page of the culvercadet.com website.  If you have any high resolution photos of your Culver or Dart, please email them to me.  It doesn't have to be a flying plane.  Good quality project photos would also work.  Also, tell us what you know of the history of the plane.  Old photos of the Culver factory would also be interesting.

[Bill Poynter]

I've posted a photo of the Culver factory on the website home page.  This is one of the photos from Paul Rule's collection. 

[Bill Poynter]

I've attached a scanned image of the centerfold from a 1946 edition of Culver's Going Places that I received from Paul Workman.  It's a pretty big file so it'll take a little time to download.

[Bill Poynter]

I've just posted an article and a photo slideshow of Neal LaFrance and his Cadet STF.

[Bill Poynter]

I've modified the photo on the home page of the website to randomly display a collection of Culver-related images.  There are 22 different photos in the series at the moment.  If anyone has a Culver related photo that you would like to include in the rotation, please send it to me.  It needs to be of high enough quality that it displays well at 1024 X 768 resolution.

Bill

[JoeB]

Great photos, website looks really nice Bill

[Culver Dreamer]

Hi Bill. I love your web site and all the info I glean off the articles and pictures you post. Having said that is there a way I can stop the slide show on Bill Johnson's airplane rebuild? I'd love to spend more time on each picture
 Thanks Mark

[Bill Poynter]

If you want to spend more time on a particular photo in the slideshow of Bill Johnson's project, click on the video "pause" icon that appears when your curser is over the large photo.  I have noticed that the slideshow behavior seems a little erratic and jerky in Safari.  I think the photos are really worth a good look.  I can post a ZIP file for download if anyone is interested.

[Bill Poynter]

Here's a link to the ZIP file containing Bill Johnson's photos.  You should save it to your computer before extracting the images.

http://www.culvercadet.com/billjohnson/Bill Johnson project.zip

[Bill Poynter]

Here's a link to 80 photos of a Culver V restoration project.

http://www.airport-data.com/photographers/Ken+Kinsler:482/Culver-N3057K:14503:1.html

[Bill Poynter]

Here's an interesting photo of the prototype NX20946, showing the original gear doors.  If you examine it closely, it has a different rudder and doesn't appear to have any wing slots.  The area behind the cabin door appears to be metal, like the L-AR-90.  The tailwheel is also missing.  I've posted a slightly larger image on the website. 

Is that Al Mooney in the photo?

[Brett Lovett]

Is that Al Mooney in the photo?

I believe that is Foster Lane.

[Eddie Z]

The photos on this site are great ! Love the factory photos especially. The color scheme on the Culver V mentioned above on the rebuild pages is awesome also(white/dark green). Seeing that rebuild page really makes me motivated to work on the V project more.

[Bill Poynter]

Here's a link to a nice PQ-14A photo:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/52810288@N05/6030219800/

[Bill Poynter]

Here's a shot of a Mexican Cadet and one of a single place Dart: