Pics from Air Show

[Donaldsrockets]

Oh, and Donald, I just noticed that the label for the second picture of the helicopter that you took says "Huge Gun." That extension from the front of the helicopter is actually a refueling probascus. It looks like this when it's in use:
https://images.google.com/imgres?im...fe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS305&sa=N&um=1&ie=UTF-8

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up.

At first it looked like a gun thinking the barrel was capped off to keep dirt and debris out but it being a refueling probe makes sense too.

You have a sharp eye.

 

[jj94]

Here are links to pictures of both:

Pave Low:
https://www.minihelicopter.net/MH53JPaveLowIIIE/MH-53J Pave Low IIIE.jpg
https://www.collectiondx.com/gallery2/gallery/d/90107-1/pave_low_ready_for_take_off.jpg

Super Stallion:
https://www.minihelicopter.net/CH53SuperStallion/CH-53 Super Stallion.jpg

If you look at the profile views, the MH-53 is a bit stockier than the Pave Low. The heli in the picture looks long profile-wise.

I think the Super Stallion looked stocky because of the angle. However, here is a view of the Sea Dragon. Looks nearly identical to Donald's picture.
https://www.richard-seaman.com/Wall...h53eSeaDragonHoveringAboveGround9oClock_1.jpg

 

[Fred22]

Kind of missed this thread I love air show photography. heres a Mitchell from the lethbridge airshow as well

 

[WiK]

Kind of missed this thread I love air show photography.

Yeah, me too. Airshows are always good fun, even if the weather is lousy. I went to the Duxford Flying Legends show a couple of years ago, that was really good fun, I think it's one of the biggest warbird shows in Europe. Must go back to it this year. I find photographing the props a bit trickier than jets, you've got to have a slow enough shutter speed to blur the propeller, but fast enough not to be effected by camerashake. Maybe having an IS lens this year will make it easier?

Part of the flight-line, some wing-walkers and a B25 being escorted by (I think) a P39? Grr, the pop-up image viewer is mangling them again - click again to see it in it's own page, looks much better.

Phil

 

[user 13]

Thats a nice row of Mustang's! Nice shot.

That looks like the P-39.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-39_Airacobra

 

[mjennings]

I got to go to Oshkosh in 2003, over the course of the week I shoot about 11 rolls of film. (yes I said rolls of film) I'll have to dig some up and scan them I have one of about 50 warbirds (mostly P-51) all airborne at once. There was a neat article in this month's Air and Space on shooting airshow photos. Mostly ideas on how to get more than plane in the sky, and here's a plane sitting on the tarmac.
https://www.airspacemag.com/

 

[mjennings]

Fred, Phil,

You guys posted while I was typing, great shots, (I'm a sucker for the B-25 though)

I missed the Valiant Air Command show in Titusville this year, the jets are too loud for my nine month old, maybe next year though.

 

[Fred22]

Hi Guys,
Phil I am not a big beleiver in IS and certainly not enough to pay for it. Shutter speed is critical for props with 250 to 350 being the range. The sun is critical but with the levels option for light in photoshop you can do a lot. If you have the meory I bracket as well by a full at stop on continuous shooting mode. I would love to hit some more airshows this year but we will see what business brings Phil I really like you shot with the stacked biplanes. I prefer the inflight stuff
By the way do scan your pictures M as I am sure they are great
Cheers
fred

 

[mjennings]

here's a couple that I got at TICO last year (Titusville) last year it'll be a while till I get the Oshkosh ones scanned.

Most of these are pretty obvious
the F-14 was pics for my brother, go fig he was the top gun freak growing up and I'm the one that went into aerospace

B-25 taxiing after flight

the F-104 Starfighter demo team, why I went to the show in the first place, it could have been the only plane there

There was a brush fire in the area and I wanted to sepia tone this one but I couldn't get it cropped right, porta potties and a modern truck can't be explained away.

 

[Fred22]

Great Pictures Mr jennings. maybe you meant this Its a little rushed but given time one can polish these things better
Cheers
Fred

 

[mjennings]

very nice start Fred, I like it
Michael

 

[sailmike]

Very cool pictures. I like both the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels. I think they both put on great shows. Haven't seen the Thunderbirds in a long time though. Doesn't anyone have any pix of an F-18 firing afterburners at night? I saw that at a night time airshow at Miramar in San Diego. The wall of fire was cool too. Wish I had those two on camera!

Mike

 

[judo]

My uncle is the National Communications Director of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). One of the fun things he gets to do is line up warbirds of DAV sponsored shows. He has become friends with the owner/pilot of "Panchito", a B-25J. I've got some prints somewhere of he and my dad flying up in her. It was Eglin AFB 2007, I think. That was a special year because they managed to get 3 B-25's in the air at the same time. It was supoosedly the first time that's happened in about 25 years.

 

[Fred22]

I would really like to see a flying fort, lancaster or liberator in the air. I really like the old warbirds. The jest from the fifties were really cool too
Cheers
fred

 

[user 13]

I have a B-17 story.

When I was in ROTC in 1982, I was sent to Dover AFB for 6 weeks of field training. While there I spent some time with the guys restoring "Shoo Shoo Baby" a B-17G that was going to be on display at the Air Force museum when done. The Base commander had given the restoration guys a hanger to work in, but everything else was volunteer work or donations. I got to talking with the guys, and most were WW2 vets doing the work as a labor of love. Just about all the parts had to be machined/built from scratch. Most of the guys are gone now.

Fast forward 6 years, I was stationed at Dover and got to see her fly! What a sight. I have photos somewhere but I don't know where. If you ever get the chance to see one fly, don't pass it up.

Fast forward 3 years and in 1991, after the 1st gulf war, I was delivering some spoils of war to the Air Force museum, and there was "Shoo Shoo Baby" on display!

On another occasion we were heading to England on a trip in the C-5. we had reached cruise altitude and were settling down for the crossing when one of the load masters call from the back and asked if he could bring a passenger up to the flight deck. This kind of thing was never done, if you had a VIP they were up front from the start, if not the passengers stayed in the back. We were not supposed to transit the cargo area in flight unless we had a good reason. Well something in the way he asked made me think this was no ordinary request so I said sure bring them up. A short time latter the load came up with an elderly, frail looking man. He had on an 8th AF baseball hat with a B-17 on it. His family was taking him back to England for the first time since he was a B-17 pilot in WW2! He sat in the jumpseat, and we talked. Just one pilot to another. The 45 years between us did not matter.

The B-17 is a special aircraft.

 

[stickershock23]

Here are some pics I got from the Southwest Florida International Air Show yesterday.

Got to see "Fat Albert" take off with the awesome power of 8 solid fuel JATO rockets. You will see rocket power like you've never seen it before if you see this.

At the end of the show, I got to meet the members of the 2009 Blue Angels team and got their autographs.

Awesome group of military professionals. I have lots of respect for them and what they do.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Awesome shots donald. I have see 120 of those Jato motors fired in groups of 20 in a matter of seconds. Yep they are awesome. I used the empty cases to make pillars at the end of my driveway! I have photos on dvd somewere I'll see if I can dig them up. great shot of the ejection seat firing too.

Hang on to the pics and autographs, They will be great to look back at years later.

 

[mjennings]

The Year I went to Oshkosh, we flew from St Louis Down Town Airport to Rockford to Oshkosh, on approach to Rockford there was a B-17 and a B-24 flying out bound, a cool site. Also there was a Beech Starship, on the ramp. wish my camera hadn't been in one of the other planes.

 

[WiK]

I would really like to see a flying fort, lancaster or liberator in the air. I really like the old warbirds.

The Lancaster is always a good one to watch - the RAF's Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight has one of only two (I think?) flightworthy Lancasters left, it's a regular feature at most UK airshows.

I remember a couple of years ago the family and I were out walking along the top of a hill and the BoB Memorial Flight's Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane flew over us in tight formation at about 500ft. It felt like something out of some nostalgic WWII painting. Very cool.