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The Incom Corporation's T-44 K-Wing fighter was developed as a multi-role deep space, orbital and high atmospheric fighter. Commissioned by the Jedi Order, the intent was to make it as easy as possible to fly (using highly vectorable thrusters and multiple control surfaces - both inertial and aerodynamic, managed by a direct bio-limbic interface) to allow the Jedi pilots to focus their full Force powers on weapons targeting and the wider tactical direction of large fighter squadrons.
So easy and reliable it was to fly, it was decided to test it initially on Podludix Zaa, the Jedi Order's most incompetent pilot. Yoda himself said, "Very simple to pilot, this fighter is. Pilot it, anyone can if Pokludix Zaa can. Yes, hhmmmmm".
When Pokludix was finally recovered from the mangled wreckage of the prototype K-Wing (in the fateful few seconds after takeoff when he lost control, he forgot to hit the eject button), he had suffered only minor injuries. Fortunately his remarkably unexpressive face and inscrutable fixed smile remained unscarred and his successful Corellian Poker career continued unabated.
Built for the Alphabet Fighter tournament at FBTB
The pilot of a stunt biplane gives the crowd a fist pump on a low pass during the 2018 Stuart Airshow in Stuart, Florida. Prints, and many other items, are available with this image on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com. Check it out and thanks for visiting!
Was clearing up deleting a load of rejected images, but I thought this was worth keeping and uploading.
The Pilot launch makes its way back in along the breakwall at Port Kembla. The Pilot guided the car carrier Salome in to port.
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
DHL Cargo jet at East Midlands Airport at night.
Between Loughborough Nottingham & Derby, Leicestershire. England,
The operator of the pilot boat prevents another pleasure craft from crossing in front of the container ship.
...quindi un altro regionale di Trenord, ancora con pilota dp in testa ed E464 in spinta, la 289, questa volta in livrea xmpr ma con scritta Trenord a lato cabina, a formare il 1731 Lecco - Sestri Levante, in arrivo a Tortona
A portrait from the 2013 Stockholm Zombie Walk, more than twelve years ago. Times flies, but I'm not sure this pilot will.
Westair Pilot preparing his Cessna for a flight from Windhoek to the NamibRand Nature Reserve - Windhoek, Namibia
This was shot last week in Queescliff at the pilot pier on another one of those dull frustrating mornings. There had been a run of easterly winds over the previous week which left sea mist blotting out the morning sun and clearing into a fine day by half an hour past me packing up my gear.. I originally started off around at the harbour but the wind was causing too much movement across the moored boats so I wandered south along the beach and past the main pier before lobbing here. The actual pier itself is not accessible as it is still used by the port authority and it took a while to work out how to take the shot - without getting wet or cut up by barbed wire.
To complete the composition I cropped it into a roughly 6x7 format and washed out a lot of the color putting a blue grey color tone thorugh the image but keeping the timber stark white to aid in the lead out line. I also softened the sky considerably and darked the end of the pier and mid right hand side of the image to give the mind a bit of room to wander in the shot. Lastly I reduced the clarity across the pier planks (which are those annoying fibreglass ones now) to eliminate moire and clone stamped out the million or so dust spots that my sandbox kindly replicates on any image shot above f3.2.
My dad, who would be about 102, had a lot of lightmeters. I guess he had as much trouble with them as I do. Some of them are very confusing and give wrong answers. This photo is exposed according to the numbers on the lightmeter. So I guess it works pretty well even after 40 or 50 years.
Pilot boat Lotse 3 in a hurry.
RMC Tokina 135mm 1:2.8 @ f/5.6
through Novoflex FUX/MIN Adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
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When Grimsby Town station still had a station pilot: on 9 January 1988 we see 08508 berthed for the weekend. The brake van is also a reminder of the past.
A pilot boat transports pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting .
If a ship is coming into the port for the first time, the pilot will board the ship at the sea-buoy. The sea-buoy is the ‘official’ start to the river / sea . The river /sea pilot resides in the port of call . So the pilot boards the pilot boat, leaves the dock, and heads out to the sea buoy to meet the ship. Now if the ship is leaving the port, just reverse that process. The pilot will board the ship at the dock, take the ship out to the sea-buoy, and climb off the ship and board the ‘PILOT’ boat and take the boat back to the dock.
The pilot boat here is dropping the pilot on to the RYNDAM , to guide the cruise
ship into port -- COPENHAGEN ,
Our cabin was on this deck -- best place -- the promenade deck .