Amberley Airshow October 2008 - Saturday

[AMD72]

Sharing some shots from Saturday's airshow at Amberley, Queensland, Australia.

The F111 dump and burn featured during the show as it is sadly the last airshow for this party trick

F111 nearly landing then throttling up and starting the fuel dump
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and a fraction of a second later as she gained some height
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some other dump and burn passes ...
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A wave to the crowd and a wave goodbye back.
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Some other aircraft included....

Vampire...
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C130 Herc....
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more pics follow...

[AMD72]

Some F18 Hornets...
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PC3 Orion...
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Another of the F111 with the wick turned up
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And finally some static displays...

Connie tail...
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C17 Globemaster...
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T28 Trojan...
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F15 - business end
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Seahawk...
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and finally Squirrel...
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[Medic1]

Very nice shots! Thanks for posting

[Jamie Holladay]

Andrew you have a nice set of images. However, I had to change them to links because the images are larger than 1024 on the longest side. Also the OP is only allowed to embed up to 8 images. Please see the Link to the Image Posting Rules in my Signature.

Thanks

[PhotosGuy]

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[3Turner]

Nice variety you posted of the airshow. Those wide angle statics make some of the aircraft look distorted.

[Scout7id]

Awesome set!

[AMD72]

Very nice shots! Thanks for posting

Thanks Medic

Andrew you have a nice set of images. However, I had to change them to links because the images are larger than 1024 on the longest side. Also the OP is only allowed to embed up to 8 images. Please see the Link to the Image Posting Rules in my Signature.
Thanks

Cheers - apologies for that. If I get time, would it be possible to resize 8 of the shots and repost them in this thread?

Nice variety you posted of the airshow. Those wide angle statics make some of the aircraft look distorted.

Thanks, there was a greater variety of aircraft, including many aerobatic planes that I did not manage to capture. I know the wide angles (taken with a 10-22) loose the true perspective of the subject, but taking those photos was more about capturing different views rather than recording correct details.

[Jamie Holladay]

Cheers - apologies for that. If I get time, would it be possible to resize 8 of the shots and repost them in this thread?

Sure. After you resize just replace the [img] tags in your first post.

[Desertraptor]

Damn fine shots

[DAdeGroot]

Some great shots there Andrew. I'm still going through the ones I got today.

[asysin2leads]

Nice clear shots for 1/50th. Were those handheld or monopod? Great images. Thanks for sharing.

[AMD72]

Damn fine shots

Some great shots there Andrew. I'm still going through the ones I got today.

Nice clear shots for 1/50th. Were those handheld or monopod? Great images. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Peter, Dave and Kevin.

The shots were all handheld. I was using a 70-200 f/4 IS for the flying / taxiing shots. Initially I had the IS on mode 2, but because of the angle of the flight path to our close viewing location I wasn't always moving it directly sideways and I think the IS for the vertical might have interferred with some of the earlier shots and I ended up turining it off. Rather than holding the lens at the zoom ring I tried holding it at the hood and this made it a lot steadier. Naturally there were plenty of OOF and blurred shots that have since been vapourised :) The static shots were taken with a 10-22mm.