Amazing Pilots

[BCRose]

I shot these today with a D300 and 70-200 with 2.0 TC. The fire was a couple kilometers away. These pilots are amazing. This is one huge Airplane and they are just skimming the tree tops.

http://Kootenay.smugmug.com/photos/347805735_7NxnN-X3.jpg

http://Kootenay.smugmug.com/photos/347805682_2f9Rd-X3.jpg

http://Kootenay.smugmug.com/photos/347805832_jgLbG-X3.jpg

[jbdavies]

Those are some amazing shots! You did an excellent job on these!

[kenyc]

Well captured!

[canonloader]

Very cool series. That's an old Orion P3, used by the Navy as sub chasers, they are also the planes those crazies fly into huricane walls. :)

[hkdigit]

Great Capture, #2 is my fav.

[Darsk47]

Very nice !

[Bill Pham]

great photos. and those pilots are some of the most craziest people i think :lol:. brave as hell really.

Bill

[marjnap]

awesome shots, brings back bad memories of the fires we had a few years ago.

[ajsdad]

breath taking. great shots!

[FlyingPhotog]

Excellent trio of shots.

Did you share these with the folks over at "Transporation" as well? Got some plane-crazy people who'd like these as well...

[canonnoob]

awesome shots! #3 is my favorite!

[paul-t]

Good series, lov'n the 3rd shot, and these guys/girls are great flyer's. My cousion used to do this in Italy but now fly's passangers about.

[Jason@MS]

nice shots buddy, is it me or is the WB off slightly?:confused:

[PhotosGuy]

Good ones!

[FlexiPack]

Very well captured!

What's the red stuff they're dropping?

[kenyc]

It's fire retardant, to try and slow or stop the fire.

[canonloader]

Wonder what that does to the environment downstream?

[3Turner]

Wow, great captures. Excellent timing on the drops.

Wonder what that does to the environment downstream?I've thought about that too, but according to WikiAnswers...it may not be. Though I don't know if that answer can be trusted.

Link --> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_red_fire_retardant_that_is_used_to_put _out_wildfires_made_of

[Maxxum5]

Sometimes, some people have all the luck of being in the Right Place at the Right Time. Unless of course.....you were running for your life and your camera is all you had time to grab!

Great photos.

[canonloader]

Robert, I found this earlier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phos-Chek), The red stuff is called Phos-Chek;

"The main components of Phos-Chek are ammonium polyphosphate, diammonium phosphate, diammonium sulfate, monoammonium phosphate, attapulgus clay, guar gum (or a derivative of guar gum), hydroxypropyl, and trade secret performance additives. Phos-Chek comes in several different formulations with varying degrees of the above components."

It's that "trade secret performance additives" part that I don't trust. And anything the government says. ;)

[3Turner]

Hmmm...trade secret...that is curious, but that wouldn't be a government thing...that's a corporate trade secret. Funny how they threw in there "acts as a fertilizer" :lol:. The MSDS sheets say "practically non-toxic" :lol:.

BCROSE: Is that the only plane you got a shot of? Any others flying that day?

[kenyc]

Well then there's all the pollution from the airplane......:rolleyes:

[IainUK]

I like no.3 - it's like they've released a beast about to strike! :)

[BCRose]

Collage...

http://kootenay.smugmug.com/photos/348253369_6axEq-X3.jpg

[Jamie Holladay]

Nice work. I like the collage too.

[RCoulter]

Awesome!

[msowsun]

Very cool series. That's an old Orion P3, used by the Navy as sub chasers, they are also the planes those crazies fly into huricane walls. :)

This one is actually a Lockheed L-188 Electra turbo-prop airliner. It was bulit from 1957-1961 and later developed into the P-3 which first flew in 1961.

http://www.answers.com/topic/lockheed-l-188-electra

[RadAL]

I see P3s all the time :)

[BCRose]

Thanks for all the comments
The entire series can be seen here (http://kootenay.smugmug.com/gallery/5660209_FDZmn#348372129_XxYr3)

[canonloader]

This one is actually a Lockheed L-188 Electra turbo-prop airliner. It was bulit from 1957-1961 and later developed into the P-3 which first flew in 1961.

http://www.answers.com/topic/lockheed-l-188-electra
Ah, didn't know that, you can see the lineage of the P3 in it though.. The P3 has been around almost as long as me, and my brother flew in them for years with the navy. :)

[3Turner]

Nice collage you made with the sequence.

[bucket772]

Nice shots.

Them pilots are some crazy guys.

I'm friends with our district forrest fire warden (C-9, New Jersey) Anytime his plane comes out he lets me know and I go-a-runnin with the camera.

Best I could do, wasn't dropping due to the 500,000 volt transmission lines overhead.

http://sillydaddy.smugmug.com/gallery/5158406_9vg4k#312264061_4xUNZ

[athlete1]

Very cool series. That's an old Orion P3, used by the Navy as sub chasers, they are also the planes those crazies fly into huricane walls.

Great shots but thats a lockheed Electra isn't it?:)

[Stormin_24]

You better believe amazing pilots... Very nice captures...