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An aft view of a former United States Air Force F-111 “Aardvark”, on display at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum at Tyler, Texas’ Pounds Regional Airport.
Two years ago, I was taking pictures at 1/1000 or lower shutter speeds. This is something I would call an improvement.
NTM 2021 FAP BA Nº11 LPBJ -Beja.
Swiss Air Force Sq11 Tigers J-5011 McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C-49 & J-5006 F/A-18C-48
Leeuwarden/Ljouwert - The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows, is one of the world's premier aerobatic display teams.
A nice topside pass from the Picasso Tiger of the Czech Air Force. Even if it is not my favourite Tiger paint of all time (british sarcastic understatement alert), I still like the colours.
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Saab - JAS-39 Gripen - Czech Air Force - Rostock Laage 2014
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First at QIAS, now in Rochester. I will see this jet sometime again next month at the Airshow London. Hoping for some vapor.
FAP 66º Anniversary Évora July 2018
FA-101 Lockheed-Martin F-16AM "Dark Falcon"
Belgian Air Force Solo Display team with Sr. Capt Stefan Darte "Vador"
It was beyond cool to watch this pilot apply his skill as he balanced the power of his thrust and the steepness of his nose up angle to fly across in front of us as slowly as possible.
How slow he could actually go was amazing. The sound of this maneuver was incredible as well.
The Thunderbirds air show rocked!
Detail of the WSK Lis-2 engine of a MiG-15UTI in the collection of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, Texas.
Spent all day yesterday at the Battle Creek Air Show and Hot Air Balloon Festival.
Shot with a borrowed (from my son) 300mm lens
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There’s a story behind this one so I decided to put it up.
For almost 4 years now old Magoo has been trying to capture one of the red kite birds that leisurely circle over our house on a regular basis and he’s failed miserably! Hundreds and hundreds of attempts and not a single one deserving of putting up. Four years. Sigh. Chuckle.
These fighter jets on the other hand, occasionally pass over and nothing about them is leisurely, you hear them coming at a terrific rate of knots , they are on you with a roar and then whoosh - gone. I’ve never had a camera with me when they do - or not with the right lens anyhow. But on this day I did have and was in a good place in the garden.
I heard it coming, no time to lift my 20x magnifier, no time to think or check aperture or exposure, I just turned towards the noise and then it was on me, unseen but without thinking I guessed at height and direction and spun around to get ahead of it, paused an instant and then hit the shutter button - one shot. No time to see if I had been unbelievably lucky for there was another one coming. I quickly turned towards it, made the same guess, spun ahead, paused and fired! Again, one shot.
I lifted up my 20x magnifier to take a look and see what if anything I had - the shots were taken so I knew I had clouds but I was beyond flabbergasted to discover I had caught the very fast moving jet not once, but twice. Honestly, I stood there stunned, it seemed….insane. It still does. Of course I didn’t know if they were sharp or blurred I can never tell even with the 20x but as you can see it was sharp, they both were.
Two shots, two hits on the lightening fast jet I think earns Magoo the title of ‘Topgun’ on this occasion at least, whilst my attempts at the slow moving kites earn me an empty water pistol award. Hopefully, I’ll be successful one day but until then these two photos give me cause for optimism and still raise a bemused and amazed smile and quite a bit of head scratching:^)
FAP 66º Anniversary Évora July 2018
FA-101 Lockheed-Martin F-16AM "Dark Falcon"
Belgian Air Force Solo Display team with Sr. Capt Stefan Darte "Vador"