Your Best 3 Aviation Shots

Some great stuff on here so I thought I'd join in with 3 favourites from my digital age, i.e. since 2004!

KJindaUK wrote in post #5536450
Some great stuff on here so I thought I'd join in with 3 favourites from my digital age, i.e. since 2004!

Breathtaking...all of them!

KJindaUK wrote in post #5536450
Some great stuff on here so I thought I'd join in with 3 favourites from my digital age, i.e. since 2004!

Excellent imagery.

Would love to know the backstory on each frame...?

KJindaUK wrote in post #5536450
Some great stuff on here so I thought I'd join in with 3 favourites from my digital age, i.e. since 2004!

Great shots!

This may be a stupid question, but why does the military adorn its fighter jets with a Football team symbol?

aridan wrote in post #5536821
Great shots!

This may be a stupid question, but why does the military adorn its fighter jets with a Football team symbol?

To piss people off...

Also, because they no longer are able to put sexy noseart on the planes...

Hell, they made me change the name of my plane because it was TOO RACEY (Though it was the name she had off and on since the Viet-Nam war)

KJindaUK wrote in post #5536450

Sad that these guys will be "flying" the predator soon...

spectre wrote in post #5536862
To piss people off...

Only people from Dallas...

aridan wrote in post #5536821
This may be a stupid question, but why does the military adorn its fighter jets with a Football team symbol?

Also, because the Fighter guys want to be just like the backwoods tanker/Airlifter guys

spectre wrote in post #5536969
Also, because the Fighter guys want to be just like the backwoods tanker/Airlifter guys

Oooh..ouch...

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FlyingPhotog wrote in post #5536528
Excellent imagery.

Would love to know the backstory on each frame...?

Many thanks Sir.

The F-117s at sunset were shot during a night Red Flag mission back in Feb 07, from a KC-135R of the Wisconsin ANG. The magazine editor I was fortunate to be travelling with did the legwork to get the pair to launch early so we could get the sunset shots.

The middle shot was from a B-52 flight I did last month out of Barksdale AFB. LA. Set-up for this wideangle shot was a 1Ds Mk2/Sigma 12-24 and a speedlight 420EX for lighting the interior to balance the outside light.

The 3rd one was a tanker flight organised by the TXANG primarily to fly local bosses and rewardees out of Ellington to show them what their reservist employees were doing during their duty days. I have an old friend at the unit so was able to get an invite. Images from this trip went into two articles in US and Polish magazines that highlighted to change of aircraft for the unit.

KJindaUK wrote in post #5537203
Many thanks Sir.

Thanks for filling in the details.

Again, beautiful shots!

Here's my best 3, not great as i only have a compact.

Three more recent ones...

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JWright wrote in post #5544194
Three more recent ones...

This one is excellent! Nice job, love the beachfront!