RC jet and heli

A couple of shots of some cool top shelf RC toy$.

The heli was shot with my 17-85 and the F-16 turbine powered beast was shot with my 100-400L

Cheers

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Nice shots. The f-16 s pretty sweet, but I couldn't imagine spending that much money on an RC plane. My foamies are expensive enough.

Says the man with L fever

joking!, but I know what you mean. My Rc stuff is at the lower end of the price scale too. The F-16 prob owes him around A$13K. or about the cost of a 600 F4 prime! As far as I am aware though, a prime lens has never burst into flames ! This thing just burst into flames on start up. Later in the day it did it again when the propane they use to start them had a leak, filled the fuse and ignited. It blew the bottom of the fuse out. I didn't see it happen, but I sure heard it!

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Nice shots!

i to now only own foamies - spend lots of money on planes!

Now i just make home made wings and stuff using my wire cutter and alike!

Rc jets = Remortage house

great pictures tho, very sharp!

Great shots. I've heard that the jets can & do explode but luckily haven't been there when one did. The season starts up here very soon, and I'll be out shooting them then but for now just enjoy seeing everyone elses photos.

Nice
Love the angle on the heli. Been too long away from it. I cant even tell what brand it is.

I thought everything was electric these days? j/k, love the smell/sound of Nitro.

Nice shots, and that jet is sic!

Very nice shots! Was that pavement that bounced light into the F-16?

photosguy: yes the pavement. You can just see it in the background of the burning plane. It's actually a full size private runway. There was a huge scale fly-in (all types, but had to be larger than 80" span) last weekend a few hours away. It was held at Dick Smiths property. Dick Smith is a very well known aviator, businessman, adventurer. Kind of an aussie Richard branson I guess.

Desertraptor: It's an avant aurora. 90 size.
I'm not really a heli guy, but I wanted to have a go at shooting them. I wanted to get the rotor disc happening, but the heli guys I spoke to on the day prefered to see a spread blade, not a whole disc. They reckon it gets too messy and hard to see the heli.....who am I to argue, and it made my job easier!

Here is the video of the same flight at my club if you're keen. http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=PwHMAWwWMss
The pilot is VERY good. from about 5 minutes on is around the time I shot this one. I took a bunch of course, but that was my favorite.

Here is an F-22 Raptor turbine another guy flew. I found this one much harder to shoot. It was hard enough to simply see at a distance, the camo job obv works well!

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Very nice shots & some very cool aircraft!

Honestly, I think you could show that F22 to someone on the street and they would have no idea its an RC plane.

Hey, I just did lighten my L load by one today.

Thankfully my lens has never exploded for no apparent reason. My easystar however, it has for no apparent reason flown into the ground and various trees and exploded. Thankfully, glue and duct tape is cheap!

how fast can/could they get the jets to go?

Great shots! Does the gear retract on those jets? That F-16 shot is smoking!

Man, that F-16 shot is fantastic !!