Air shows. Post your best shots.

Thanks everyone.. Appreciate the comments.. The goal has always been to highlight detail that are usually missed.. or can't be seen, easily.. Ever since I was young, I've always been super impressed by Imax movies... large format with a focus on detail and textures..

You buy a 500mm to zoom in on detail. So take advantage of it and get stuff that no one else gets.. The world of macro but for planes..

I have been thinking of creating a "The Art of Panning" series.. which would feature 1/50ths pans or thereabouts, just to highlight how slowing the shutter can give a surrealness to images. Those long lines in backgrounds can give off a star wars hyperspace look and turn images into a painted effect.

Could look awesome on a 4k 65" TV

Thanks again...

Vladdo wrote in post #19330692
Thanks everyone.. Appreciate the comments.. The goal has always been to highlight detail that are usually missed.. or can't be seen, easily.. Ever since I was young, I've always been super impressed by Imax movies... large format with a focus on detail and textures..

You buy a 500mm to zoom in on detail. So take advantage of it and get stuff that no one else gets.. The world of macro but for planes..

I have been thinking of creating a "The Art of Panning" series.. which would feature 1/50ths pans or thereabouts, just to highlight how slowing the shutter can give a surrealness to images. Those long lines in backgrounds can give off a star wars hyperspace look and turn images into a painted effect.

Could look awesome on a 4k 65" TV

Thanks again...

I would love to see "The Art of Panning" with your images!! DO IT!!

Vladdo wrote in post #19330692
Thanks everyone.. Appreciate the comments.. The goal has always been to highlight detail that are usually missed.. or can't be seen, easily.. Ever since I was young, I've always been super impressed by Imax movies... large format with a focus on detail and textures..

You buy a 500mm to zoom in on detail. So take advantage of it and get stuff that no one else gets.. The world of macro but for planes..

I have been thinking of creating a "The Art of Panning" series.. which would feature 1/50ths pans or thereabouts, just to highlight how slowing the shutter can give a surrealness to images. Those long lines in backgrounds can give off a star wars hyperspace look and turn images into a painted effect.

Could look awesome on a 4k 65" TV

Thanks again...

Great insight on your philosophy in capturing and creating these powerful photos, very interesting!

And thanks again for sharing these with us all!

I tried to send this to Pippan as a PM but it wouldn’t let me attach the pictures unless they are in my Gallery.

I didn’t make it to the RAF Club until today but attached are a couple of pictures taken with my iPhone of the bust of Roy Chadwick in the main corridor.

I hope that your Nephew’s fiancé enjoys seeing them.

Phoenixuk wrote in post #19330987
I tried to send this to Pippan as a PM but it wouldn’t let me attach the pictures unless they are in my Gallery.

I didn’t make it to the RAF Club until today but attached are a couple of pictures taken with my iPhone of the bust of Roy Chadwick in the main corridor.

I hope that your Nephew’s fiancé enjoys seeing them.

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Thank you so much Mark. I'm sure she will love to see these images of her great great uncle and the plane he designed.

oooopsies, came across this image on google maps at Whiteman AFB

i don't know but, i don't think that is a regular parking spot

It could have been because of not enough space on the pans, but with only 2 Warthogs there probably not the reason?

I'll bet there's a couple of skid marks that aren't on the runway too A quick cough in the trousers peut etra? Well spotted Brian

I am always fascinated that there is only one runway at a lot of US bases? The wind obviously doesn't swing around as much as this side of the Pond.

Google maps, same place and they seem to park them all over the place Only not accidentically all the time

Jonzjob wrote in post #19331458
Google maps, same place and they seem to park them all over the place Only not accidentically all the time

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You probably know those are just display aircraft.

brian_sp wrote in post #19331362
oooopsies, came across this image on google maps at Whiteman AFB

i don't know but, i don't think that is a regular parking spot

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Jonzjob wrote in post #19331455
It could have been because of not enough space on the pans, but with only 2 Warthogs there probably not the reason?

I'll bet there's a couple of skid marks that aren't on the runway too A quick cough in the trousers peut etra? Well spotted Brian

I am always fascinated that there is only one runway at a lot of US bases? The wind obviously doesn't swing around as much as this side of the Pond.

Reportedly hydraulic failure during flight, prevented gear from locking.
https://www.airforceti​mes.com …malfunction-none-injured/

Thank you for that Jack. It's good to know that the crew were OK.

Looking at the skid marks on the runway it was the port leg that didn't lock and the driver must have been hard on the brakes to stop the dragging wing tip slewing it round earlier or there would probably have been a lot more damage!

Oh, I forgot to add above that I did know the aircraft on the round pans were what we call gate guards. I just hope that they are looked after better than most of the gate guards this side of the Pond?

The Comet 2, 'Sagittarius' that used to be the gate guard at R.A.F. Lyneham was just about allowed to fall to bits! As it was one of the first all jet pax aircraft in the world I considered it disgusting that it wasn't preserved. I havd worked on that aircraft and now all that's left is the nose section at the museum at Old Sarum.

Air shows can be a lot of work! And it gets hot out there on the tarmac. So how do the pinup models cool off? They find the nearest air conditioned German Air Force A400M Atlas to cool off in.

Capn Jack wrote in post #19331460
You probably know those are just display aircraft./

Thinking along the line of gate guards. R.A.F. Holton was one of the R.A.F. Apprentice schools where they taught young lads for 3 years to become the aircraft ground crew in the various trades. Airframes, engines, eleckies, etc.

At the end of the training the young blokes got up to all sorts of tricks before they left the station to go to their new postings. I remember that one of the entries had the idea of moving the Hawker Hunter gate guard and put it on the main parade ground.

The big problem is the the groopenfurer camp boss would have looked down on anyone doing such a thing so it had to be done in secret! The following morning the camp awoke to the Hunter sitting proudly in the middle of the square and the young gentlemen of the entry departing for their new stations.

The said groopenfurer was not too happy and even less so when it came to light that the Hunter wouldn't actually fit up the road back up to the Main Gate until the wing tips were removed and apparently the blokes who did remove the tips had a load of difficulty because they hadn't been removed for years and a lot of the Phillips screw heads had to be drilled out.

Nobody really found out how it had been put on the square? Another entry took the main flag pole off of the parade square and re-errected it complete with the Air Com's pennant and Ensigne on the top of the hill overlooking the camp! Naughty boys

DH Comet 2 'Sagittarius' cockpit, complete with proper instrumentation

A couple of warbirds given the vintage look, Boeing B-17G Sally B departing Farnborough July 2016 and CAC CA-18 Mk21 Mustang, A68-107 / VH-AUB returning to Temora March 2021.