Air shows. Post your best shots.

Super hornet's under blue sky great clouds.

How about a few scale R/C Jets.

cicopo wrote in post #18382345
How about a few scale R/C Jets.

That Tomcat is awesome!

It was VERY impressive to watch & listen to. Very fast too. The pilot was great too. Landings were pretty much text book perfect.

All of those RC planes look awesome, great job photographing them also.

Thank you. I'll be shooting another Jets event in about a month. These are from one last summer. BAe Hawks & F 104's are pretty popular now.

Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair (NX240CF)

cicopo wrote in post #18383054
Thank you. I'll be shooting another Jets event in about a month. These are from one last summer. BAe Hawks & F 104's are pretty popular now.

Wonder if this is the same guy I shot a few months ago...

Hikin Mike wrote in post #18386299
Wonder if this is the same guy I shot a few months ago...

It's possible but unlikely. That's a factory available paint scheme. If you scroll down this page a bit you'll see it.

http://www.skymasterje​ts.net/bigbh.htm

We had 2 at the event I shot my photo at. The other one crashed while landing & did a lot of damage after it stalled about 6 feet off of the runway.

cicopo wrote in post #18386504
It's possible but unlikely. That's a factory available paint scheme. If you scroll down this page a bit you'll see it.

http://www.skymasterje​ts.net/bigbh.htm

We had 2 at the event I shot my photo at. The other one crashed while landing & did a lot of damage after it stalled about 6 feet off of the runway.

Didn't know that it was a "factory" paint scheme. Kind of kills the "cool" factor to me.

Most of the big jets are sold pre painted & I suspect that if they weren't it could be very expensive & very difficult for the potential buyers to find local people who could come even close quality wise for much less cost than what an air frame sells for. Getting most scale jets painted could cost as much or more to paint than a full sized car especially if there are a lot of graphics like Red Arrows schemes etc.

Matt Younkin's 1943 Twin Beech 18 (N9109R)

cicopo wrote in post #18386964
Most of the big jets are sold pre painted & I suspect that if they weren't it could be very expensive & very difficult for the potential buyers to find local people who could come even close quality wise for much less cost than what an air frame sells for. Getting most scale jets painted could cost as much or more to paint than a full sized car especially if there are a lot of graphics like Red Arrows schemes etc.

I guess that there are less and less real aeromodelers around these days, and more who simply fly pre-built stuff. ARTF was only just starting to become a thing when I got out of the game, that was back in the late 80's. It used to be that most everybody at the club not only built their own airframes, usually from a kit, but finished them too. The one thing that did eventually disappoint me with finishing them was when they introduced the iron on, heat shrinkable cloth covering. Because I loved the small of Dope when my Dad was covering a scale/semi-scale model in a traditional finish.

Alan