aerial photography

hharney · #1 08-09-11, 02:27 PM

The O2 door allows the side window to crank up 90 degrees and is able to do so in-flight.

jchronic · #2 08-09-11, 06:03 PM

ipasgas:

I have an opening photo window in the left rear seat position in my airplane. I'll try and get a picture of it and post it. I had to trace an outline of the factory window and send it to the vendor to make the new window with the port.

Be aware that getting the old one out isn't any walk in the park. It's held in with riveted brackets that have to be drilled out and then re-riveted in around the new window. But it works great.

Joe

ipasgas1 · #3 08-10-11, 08:41 PM

Pictures of older 337's, ie 1965-72, look like the right passenger window opens as well? Can it, too, be opened in flight?

Ernie Martin · #4 08-10-11, 10:00 PM

Yes, but perhaps not all the way up. Attached is the image of the door of a 65-69 from the parts catalog, with two of the parts identified (I used to have a 69). I believe that the arm (part 18) limits travel, and also that 73 and later have a sufficiently different fuselage that you couldn't just put this door in a later model. Don Nieser could confirm this.

Ernie

ipasgas1 · #5 08-11-11, 03:55 PM

If anyone has one of these windows, is there room enough to stick a camera lens out? Have you opened it in flight (would be slow flight for the photo)?

Roger · #6 08-11-11, 08:31 PM

Yes, you can open the side window and fly around and take pics. I flew my 1970 in the islands often, low and slow with the window open. That being said, try not to have crap in the plane fly out and into the back prop.

jchronic · #7 08-12-11, 08:46 AM

Before I started my own operation, the leased airplane we used for the whale survey (a 1965 337) had an O2 door installed with a window that could be cranked all the way open in flight for photos. It really didn't stir things up in the cabin that badly, but it was a little chilly early in the year!

Joe