Sandpoint Airport

This is serial number 60 Quest Kodiak 100. Leaving Sandpoint Airport to go to Sun n’ Fun 2012 in Leesburg Florida. This is the first Kodiak with the standard green paint to come off of the assembly line. The video was shot with a GoPro Hero 2 camera on 720 p at 60 frames per second.

Here is a J5 Wright powered 1928 Stearman C3B starting its engine. The video was shot with a Flip HD (3rd Gen) mounted on my Sanken CSS-5 microphone boom pole. This is the complete video with the CSS-5 audio recorded at 24/96. This plane was not flying during the show but at the end of the day I was able to meet the owner and his friends (it takes more then one person to get these planes started). They were getting ready to fly home as I walked by after recording at the north end of the airport. I asked the pilot if I could record it and he said only if you give me the sound for my cell ringtone. “Deal” I told him. After they rolled it out and charged the starter she was running. He ran the engine at different RPMs until I gave him the thumbs up that I recorded enough for his ringtone. I then walked along side the plane while it headed for the runway. I was able to move down field and record the plane taking off and passing by.

On the southern boundary of the old naval air station is a newly constructed wetlands. Its in its third year just now taming enough wildlife to move in from other parts of the park. There are so many Alders that it wont be long before a lot of the water ways are blocked from sight. The designers planned it that way in order to allow as many birds sanctuary as possible. Lynda Mapes of the Seattle Times wrote; “…It’s hard to believe this landscape not long ago was an airport runway, at the former Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point. But as part of a $16 million sports field and habitat project at Seattle’s Magnuson Park, a new $3 million wetland has been built. Today, one year later, about 14 acres of wetlands are burgeoning with native plants and animals, from tree frogs to green-wing teal, dragonflies and flickers. Some 17000 plants of more than 70 species are taking root, and that’s not even counting the plants started from seed, including some — especially cottonwood trees — from mature stands conserved nearby. Some of the young trees are growing so strongly, they already have started to screen out the light standards at the sports fields built nearby as part of the same face-lift. But this isn’t where the story starts: That was back in 1916, when Lake Washington was lowered 9 feet as part of construction of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Before that, this place was an embayment of Lake Washington, underlain with deep peat deposits from an ancient wetland complex …