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Sep 19, 2009 16:32 |  #1

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I spent a few days in Dayton, Ohio, and had the pleasure to visit the United States Air Force Museum. It is absolutely jam packed with airplanes and historical information.


A real treat for a aviation buff like myself.


One of the highlights of the museum is the collection of wright brothers aircraft. Dayton was home to the Wrights and was where they truly developed the airplane in the years following their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.


The collection in Dayton is impressive and most of the aircraft are inside windowless hangars. The lack of strong lighting was a bit challenging but a good test of my new Canon 5D MkII camera. I was fairly impressed how well the camera handled the conditions and how nice even the high iso images turned out.


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Sep 19, 2009 17:37 |  #2

Easily the most loved airplane by a whole generation of vets. Radar Love (external link) always starts playing in my head every time I see one. :lol:

I would have done a HDR series under these conditions. ;)


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Sep 19, 2009 18:35 |  #3

I guess I do not understand why the aircraft is portrayed at the angle it is to the crop. That is a kinda of cliche of a lot of for political correctness japense import cars. The tone is way to harsh as well


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Sep 19, 2009 20:57 as a reply to  @ dashotgun's post |  #4

Maybe it was his widest lens and tilting was the only way to get the full plane in the shot.

Terrible lighting, tightly packed, but the best aircraft museum around. And you can't beat the price.


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Sep 19, 2009 21:10 |  #5

Maybe it was his widest lens and tilting was the only way to get the full plane in the shot.

Good point. I think I'd have tried a pano, too. This shot looks like the F4 is bent in the middle. (Maybe it's just tired?) ;)


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Sep 21, 2009 20:47 |  #6

They are loved and hated because they were some bad birds. Dirty and easy to see but bad to the bone none-the-less. From what I remember, they didn't have any guns either. Just rockets and a radar system that would fry the guy you were dogging. Wouldn't that suck? Get cooked to death by the radar of the plane chasing you down? Yuck.

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Sep 21, 2009 21:01 |  #7

Nice shot.


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Sep 22, 2009 00:17 |  #8

Love that place although I haven't been there in a long time.




  
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Sep 22, 2009 04:14 |  #9

Jon Foster wrote in post #8685370 (external link)
They are loved and hated because they were some bad birds. Dirty and easy to see but bad to the bone none-the-less. From what I remember, they didn't have any guns either. Just rockets and a radar system that would fry the guy you were dogging. Wouldn't that suck? Get cooked to death by the radar of the plane chasing you down? Yuck.

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Originally no gun, however they found the Sidewinder missile didnt always hit home ended up "double tapping" sidewinders off the rail to increase hit rate, then the Navy put a gun pod under the centerline on the aircraft kills rapidly increased with the gun :)

Not too sure on the Radar cooking thing though


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Sep 22, 2009 05:17 |  #10

The radar would cook you if you were the ground crew walking around it when someone turned it on by mistake.


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Sep 22, 2009 07:16 |  #11

So they didnt have a WOW (Weight On Wheels) switch for the radar?


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Sep 22, 2009 08:13 |  #12

I will have to ask my brother next time I see him. He was a radar tech during Nam aboard the Kittyhawk. I have heard many a hair raising stories about rides he got on F-4's doing his job.


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Sep 22, 2009 09:20 |  #13

The F 4 E had a integral gun.


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Sep 28, 2009 09:38 |  #14

dashotgun wrote in post #8688036 (external link)
The F 4 E had a integral gun.

Only with later versions of the 'tom :)


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Sep 28, 2009 10:15 |  #15

That's what the F 4 E was.


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