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My dad got to hang out with the SU-27s that are in IL right now. http://www.philhigh.com/Aviation/SU-27-Flanker/11472451_CdXDf#807856217_8YfAN-L-LB Unfortunately he hasn't uploaded it anywhere else.
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Here's some shots my dad has taken over the years from the end of a runway. SR71 landing  Concorde taking off
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ab0z posted:Your dad is pretty awesome.  I agree, with bonus F15 runway shot. 
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Jun 9, 2010 02:21
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CommieGIR posted:Is this off the side of the B-52 that is at Sheppard AFB? Probably not, he took it in the late 70s as far as I know. He's done a bunch of newer stuff, but he mostly just goes to Oshkosh every year and shoots for EAA.
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Jun 9, 2010 02:39
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Geoj posted:Apparently the Air Force has money in the budget to maintain a golf course in the loving desert Of course the Air Force has the money in the budget to maintain a golf course in the desert. Also, that's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21/M-21
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Jan 6, 2011 01:53
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Preoptopus posted:I am SO loving excited for EAA just a month away. Anyone else going camping? I'll be there camping, but I work on the volunteer photo staff.
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Boomerjinks posted:So I've had this SR-71 screw for about a year now, and since I got it I've been entertaining the idea of getting some shavings from it an having them inlaid on the inside of my wedding band. Wedding band arrived today, so I guess it's time to stop fantasizing and start taking steps toward finding out if that is even goddamn POSSIBLE. If only you were in the Midwest, I know a jewelry store that has photographs of airplanes on the wall, and the fan blade section from a turbine on the wall. I'm sure they'd be able to make a SR71 screw integrated into a ring. **EDIT** In fact.. this photo hangs on the wall 
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Jun 17, 2011 17:39
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Slo-Tek posted:Did I post the pictures from inside the Dornier 24 ATT? Somewhere I have my dads night photo of this airplane in this very spot, as well as some splashdown pictures of it landing in the lake.
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Sep 2, 2011 14:28
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I have an avenger case like that and shell I got from Oshkosh as well. That shell casing and crunched up round look correct to me.
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Jan 11, 2012 00:48
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Cygni posted:Participated in a lot of fighter test programs, and as an aside thought Chuck Yager was a dick. To be fair though, Chuck Yeager is a dick.
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My family does some volunteer photography work, which has involved us interacting with him on a number of occasions, and in general he has always just been just kind of a dick to everyone. A bit of a misogynist.
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Jan 17, 2012 02:12
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smackfu posted:I just assumed he was dead. But he's 88, which seems about right. And that's generally "I don't give a gently caress what people think of me" age. I think he's had that attitude for far longer than in just in his old age.
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Jan 17, 2012 18:57
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Is it just me, or do those look photoshopped? *edit: might just be the low quality and weird angles
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Feb 22, 2012 02:06
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slidebite posted:Silly, the nick he's referring to is the F16 Excavator It looks like that was the one that ran off @ Oshkosh.
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Mar 9, 2012 01:11
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rcman50166 posted:Sounds like a simple shot until you think about it. What camera do you use to take a shot like that? How do you actuate the shutter? Would it survive high altitude flight? What kind of paperwork do you have to fill out to make a "modification" to a commercial aircraft? Surely someone was worried about a FOD scenario. An SLR, gaffers tape, a giant rear end suction mount, and a remote shutter.
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Mar 18, 2012 15:26
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Here's my really lovely cell phone picture of the really cool thing I got to do at Oshkosh. I was able to get in a B-25 for some other photographs we were taking at night. I'm working on getting them to post.
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Jul 30, 2012 03:20
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Phanatic posted:I can't even imagine what the FAA restrictions are on armed civilian aircraft. Would they ever in a million years be allowed to take that thing into the air with loaded Brownings on board? Maybe all you need is a concealed carry permit.
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Aug 24, 2012 00:31
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Rorac posted:To me, even though it's well past it's prime this looks like it's still ready to go out and gently caress somebody's day up. I'm not sure what it is exactly but it's there. It's the oil leaks beneath each engine.
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Aug 27, 2012 15:08
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Leviathor posted:Bob Odegaard died in a crash while practicing for the Valley City air show this evening. This makes me really sad. I just saw that airplane at Oshkosh and have seen him fly for a long time.
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Sep 8, 2012 12:04
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Not to mention that there should to supposedly 50 or so of them, so hopefully they'll be able to rebuild at least one.
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Oct 19, 2012 21:05
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Captain Apollo posted:OH MY GOD ITS GOING TO FALL ON TOP OF US THE ENGINES HAVE QUIT! My dad always taught me to shoot 1/100th or below to get a good prop blur. I think the general rule is slow that shutter speed down as far as you can shoot the picture sharp.
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Nov 26, 2012 23:53
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What is the point of a fastener like that?
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Dec 14, 2012 15:58
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I forgot to post these lovely cell phone pictures from the photo mission I was fortunate to go on at Oshkosh last year.   
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Jan 4, 2013 02:40
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 What the heck is going on there?
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Apr 26, 2013 00:29
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dayman posted:Crazy to see a couple 109's parked next to a P-40.  There are BF109s in that photo?
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May 28, 2013 23:32
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MY GIRLFRIEND and I had the opportunity to get a ride in a Navy N3N that a friend owns. This was both of our first time at the controls of an aircraft, and it was a loving blast. Did some basic turns and some minor high-g banks and rolls. A++ would fly again.       My 318 felt so smooth after riding in it, because of how it vibrated. I need to learn how to fly.
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Jun 24, 2013 03:05
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More N3N pictures..  
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Jun 27, 2013 05:10
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Any of you going to be at Oshkosh this year?
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Went to Ohskosh and had a great time. I've been going every year since I was born, but this was the first year I paid for a Ford Tri-motor ride. I also managed to get to hang out with some really amazing photographers. Next year I will be most likely volunteering on the photo staff. Not my image, but an example of some of the great work that gets done there. Lightbulb Out fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Nerobro posted:I'm going Oshkosh on saturday. Is there anything i should look for? Anything I should try to do? any talks I should make time for? Have you been before? Just bring sun screen, and try to have a good time. There is so much to see and do that it's really hard to say just one thing. I prefer just hanging out in warbirds. And definitely don't be afraid to talk to people.
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Aug 1, 2013 22:10
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I believe I saw a couple Diamond aircraft there, but don't recall seeing a yellow one. I didn't spend a ton of time looking at those airplanes, although I wanted to. I unfortunately wasn't there that long, and was backing up my father. In regards to the warbirds area, exactly what Slo-tek said. It's amazing some of the people you'll talk to. I've gotten to know some L-39 pilots and mechanics, gotten to climb around and talk to the owner of a B-25, a very excited 65 year old woman who told my girlfriend and I all about her husbands BT13, etc. During lunch Tuesday, I asked to sit down at a table of some older folks who happened to all have worked at the Boeing plant building Apaches. Fun stories, and interesting people for the most part. The whole place is certainly a thing.
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Linedance posted:Planes should be sleek and streamlined. Helicopters can get away with being bulbous and tumorrific, because they don't have to be sleek and streamlined. The Connie would make a good helicopter.  
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hobbesmaster posted:The A-10 went all the way back around to pretty. It just looks like it was designed to ruin your day as opposed to say the Su-25 which just looks like another fighter. Yeah, it's almost as if when you add a bunch of radomes and bulbous things to an airplane it looks kind of funny. Connies are beautiful and you're wrong if you disagree 
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holocaust bloopers posted:Yep. It's awful looking. This?!? This is not. A-10s are cool as gently caress as well and I never understood why people called them ugly, either.
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I'm still standing by my statement that Connies are awesome. I always remember them from when I was a child @ Oshkosh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dExlu488bM4
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The 777 is a little bulbous and tumorrific for me.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Where'd you shoot all these? Looks like the SAC museum?
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Slo-Tek posted:There is a WB-57 at Oshkosh right now. Kinda wishing I had gone, would have been cool to see, and I could take a better picture than the stuff showing up on the airventure page. I know people on the photo staff if you want to come shoot them yourself. Whether the editors will let the good images get there is another question, though. The WB-57 @ Osh is one of the reasons I'm headed up there tomorrow.
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Tell me they have one that's not all HDR'd and strangely post processed.
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TheFluff posted:What's the 747 with the goofy fins on the elevator and weird pins all over for? It's for carrying the space shuttle.
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