The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery...part DEUX

[707guy]

Experimenting with some blade-blur photo techniques.

Nice! Hard to get good blur on helos - but you already know that.

 

[Kaman]

DHC-8-100 3, Canada Geese 0...taken the other day in MDT

 

[jmcquate]

Yikes.....that's no joke.

 

[Kaman]

How us "old farts" did it...photo is courtesy of Robert Beach..."Lamplighter 342" restoration project in Huntsville, AL

 

[exNavyOffRec]

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DHC-8-100 3, Canada Geese 0...taken the other day in MDT

wow, I wonder what the passengers were thinking after that impact and the damage.

 

[Kaman]

I will have to put the pic I took at the gate after we took a seagull dead-center on the post between the CA/FO windscreens...We were landing on RWY 08 in PHL and on short final...Went IFR from bird guts and blood...Had to land with the ball out to see where we were going! taxiing was equally a challenge...Most unusual "bird strike" was actually a bat while in the GCA box in the P.I. We didn't notice it inflight...( I was an AW, and snoozing...). I found the remains during the D&T later that evening...Had the engine on-mount bore scoped...

 

[Malo83]

Amazing Digital art work,
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageN...ing-Beauty-the-Art-of-Piotr-Forkasiewicz.aspx

 

[707guy]

A few from the Thunder Over Michigan air show this past weekend:

B-24 "Diamond Lil"


Mustang:

P-63 Kingcobra:


B-17 "Yankee Lady" with C-47

T-6/SNJ Flight:

WWII "Victory Flight"

 

[xj220]

Those must have sounded amazing. I love the P-38, too.

 

[danpass]

At Ft Lauderdale Executive, KFXE, a while back

These two took off one behind the other

At Kendall-Tamiami Executive, KTMB

When I saw this land right there at the airport I went over to the landing area. Turned out to be the Fire Station. I knocked on the door and no one answered. But just two minutes later an officer came by and I requested a tour of the helos.

Three minutes after that he came back out and brought me in and I chatted with one pilot for about half an hour

There was this one and another one in the hangar (having a bird strike repaired).

Fascinating stuff.



Opa-Locka Executive, KOPF. I was right seat in a Cirrus and we came in behind this USCG plane.

Caught it again while we were taxiing

This one on I-95 south of Port Malabar, FL lol

Hehe

 

[707guy]

Those must have sounded amazing. I love the P-38, too.

The sound was quite spectacular! Of course the ol' Merlin in those P-51's is the most recognizable. The 63 was interesting too. Here's a P-38 for ya:

 

[xj220]

I was fortunate enough to be near an A-26 taxiing by and it was such a cool sight/sound.

 

[707guy]

I was fortunate enough to be near an A-26 taxiing by and it was such a cool sight/sound.

Love that radial thrumming - can't imagine what it was like standing on an airfield in England when a B-17 raid launched.

 

[Hopeful Hoya]

Just put a poster similar to this up in my room at school. Through the good days and the shitty ones, it reminds me what the ultimate goal is: to fly a grey aircraft for the US Navy.

(photo credit to http://www.setaswall.com/wallpapers/f18_takeoff-1920x1200.jpg)

 

[Mumbles]

That did surprise me BzB, besides head on passes and the diamond formations most of it was just v formations (plus #4 in the slot), echelons, spreads, and trails. I was thinking, huh, those are the same formations I could potentially be flying. Albeit, I will be lucky if I have 10% of the talent that those guys have.

I wonder what it is like going back to the fleet for those guys after their tour is done. They probably can keep formation without breaking any sort of a sweat.

The two guys I know personally from the 2009-2010 team...Corky and Gopher, are two of the nicest, most humble guys I ever met and they were part of the air wing on my ship after they were part of the team.