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Title: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Wildcat1 on December 21, 2011, 10:47:31 AM
post 'em! :aok

my favorite bird
(http://www.warbirddepot.com/dbimages/1/1-a-1280.jpg)

my favorite modern bird
(http://www.check-6.com/gallery/img/carriers/f14_over_carrier_katsu.jpg)

i love heritage flights :)
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Nellis/2009/Highlights/HeritageFlightNellis09.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: MachFly on December 21, 2011, 06:43:19 PM
I really tried not being biased.

(http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/7346/spitfiremk182.jpg)
(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5175/p1000412g.jpg)
(http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/782/1249767.jpg)
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8031/4745645192ee74e372cdb.jpg)
(http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/8779/da42ng.jpg)



more...


(http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/3403/33844272.jpg)
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/7471/71759081.jpg)
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4540/89986639.jpg)
(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3103/img6409v.jpg)
(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7140/img5598l.jpg)
(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1861/img6290q.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tupac on December 21, 2011, 06:58:00 PM
I'll post a few of mine

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388798_2349065806569_1247804014_31943034_1222294640_n.jpg)

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217733_1679140338851_1247804014_31388521_7908922_n.jpg)
Turning final in Telluride, Colorado in a Cessna 172.

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291822_1971096997585_1247804014_31731478_7283068_n.jpg)
Over Ontonagon, Michigan with Lake Superior in the background.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6199/6114686173_8301ab3ea6_b.jpg)
Departing 6Y9 (Sidnaw, Michigan)
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/308635_2046042391173_1247804014_31791178_833083868_n.jpg)
Coming out of Gastons in Arksansas
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/387693_2299499767449_1247804014_31925386_1435736782_n.jpg)
I really like the reflection of the clouds on the bottom of the wing
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Seanaldinho on December 21, 2011, 07:00:43 PM
I'll post a few of mine

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388798_2349065806569_1247804014_31943034_1222294640_n.jpg)

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217733_1679140338851_1247804014_31388521_7908922_n.jpg)
Turning final in Telluride, Colorado in a Cessna 172.

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291822_1971096997585_1247804014_31731478_7283068_n.jpg)
Over Ontonagon, Michigan with Lake Superior in the background.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6199/6114686173_8301ab3ea6_b.jpg)
Departing 6Y9 (Sidnaw, Michigan)
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/308635_2046042391173_1247804014_31791178_833083868_n.jpg)
Coming out of Gastons in Arksansas
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/387693_2299499767449_1247804014_31925386_1435736782_n.jpg)
I really like the reflection of the clouds on the bottom of the wing

The second one was taken on my birthday!
That was the day I took my first flight and now am hooked and have soloed! (gliders)
Starting powered flight after i get my glider ticket in april (on my birthday). Probably go to the Aero Club down at Eglin air force base.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: colmbo on December 21, 2011, 07:00:59 PM
Lt. William H. "Bill" Bunn.  307th FS, 31st Fighter Group  Jun '44 to May '45.  Credited with one kill, a JU-88.  Got hits on a 262 and would probably have gotten a kill but his rudder hinge broke flipping him inverted at 400+ on the deck.  I met him at the Gathering of Mustangs in '07, someone needs to do his skin someday.

(http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/375850299_ykpi8-L.jpg)

Gathering of Mustangs. This guy flew one heck of a show, don't remember his name.  I don't think he ever got above 500'.

(http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/416390447_XbRnR-L-1.jpg)

Jets are for kids:

(http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/i-mcfGQMC/0/L/i-mcfGQMC-L.jpg)

The AT-6 is at the top of my list for favorite airplanes I've flown.  It just might rank above the Mustang.

(http://www.dalefalk.com/photos/i-vF4MsFq/0/L/i-vF4MsFq-L.jpg)

Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: mentalguy on December 21, 2011, 07:07:41 PM
My MOS
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k259/Gaseous_Anomaly/AW%20BBS/6046071505_c5f7fbef2a_b.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Golfer on December 21, 2011, 07:12:12 PM
John Mohr, colmbo.

Magic watching what he can do with with a stock Stearman.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tupac on December 21, 2011, 07:15:22 PM
and of course

(http://wilko.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/waco-kyle-and-amanda-close.jpg)

RIP Amanda
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: MachFly on December 21, 2011, 07:17:19 PM
Golfer,

I remember about half a year ago you posted a picture that someone took of you on the short final. It was a good picture and I can't find it, can you post it again?

Thanks
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: 1sum41 on December 21, 2011, 07:29:51 PM
Heres a couple of mine :aok
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/dfe925cf.jpg)
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/b2f73f37.jpg)
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/IMG_0149.jpg)
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/IMG_0112.jpg)(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/IMG_0097.jpg)(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv3/1sum41/GetHIM.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: skorpion on December 21, 2011, 07:37:54 PM
My #1 favorite plane of all time, the amazing F4 Phantom!


(http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i336/igotafro/F-4Phantom.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Melvin on December 21, 2011, 08:16:29 PM
I'll post a few of mine

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/388798_2349065806569_1247804014_31943034_1222294640_n.jpg)

(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217733_1679140338851_1247804014_31388521_7908922_n.jpg)
Turning final in Telluride, Colorado in a Cessna 172.

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/291822_1971096997585_1247804014_31731478_7283068_n.jpg)
Over Ontonagon, Michigan with Lake Superior in the background.
(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6199/6114686173_8301ab3ea6_b.jpg)
Departing 6Y9 (Sidnaw, Michigan)
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/308635_2046042391173_1247804014_31791178_833083868_n.jpg)
Coming out of Gastons in Arksansas
(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/387693_2299499767449_1247804014_31925386_1435736782_n.jpg)
I really like the reflection of the clouds on the bottom of the wing

 :lol I can see on of our shops in the Ontonagon pic!  :aok
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Golfer on December 21, 2011, 08:24:33 PM
Golfer,

I remember about half a year ago you posted a picture that someone took of you on the short final. It was a good picture and I can't find it, can you post it again?

Thanks

There are a few and they're all basically the same.  Caught the resident Philly airplane photo geek taking pictures earlier this year. Turned out he caught me.  Was it this one?

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5673976888_6354cdcc84.jpg)

Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: eagl on December 21, 2011, 09:08:19 PM
I took all of these except for the T-37 over the Florida Keys.

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/F22%20takeoff%20turn.jpg)
F-22 on takeoff

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/T37%20Keys.jpg)
T-37s over the Florida Keys

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/f15sky4a.jpg)
F-15E over Saudi back in 1997

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/raven1.jpg)
Wayne Handley's Raven, shot on slide film back in 1997-1998 a year or so before his crash that ended his airshow career.  I flew an F-15E to that airshow and after meeting Wayne during the performer's reception, hung out with him and his crew all weekend.

(http://www.mindspring.com/~seanlong/images/agiesflyby.jpeg)
Aegis cruiser flyby.  Turns out that even though we can participate in a 100 aircraft mission package and put 4 fighters on each wing of a tanker while another plane refuels, it's against some air force regulation to have a formation of 5 fighters without majcom DO permission.  Oops.  At least the Navy appreciated it since they got both a neat flyby and a 6-ship raid tracking exercise out of it.  At least we kept it at or above 500'...

I have more but these will have to do.







Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on December 21, 2011, 09:42:39 PM
It's actually yours trully, UPS Denver ramp ... night ... snowing ... frost.
I like it compared to all the nice cutty cuty plane shots because it represents the average guy tring to make a living far from the airline glamour.
(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/387624_10150467270381308_790661307_8579566_783117397_n.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Vudu15 on December 21, 2011, 09:55:05 PM
My MOS
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k259/Gaseous_Anomaly/AW%20BBS/6046071505_c5f7fbef2a_b.jpg)

sh*thook pickerupper guy.  :D :noid

Stallion's a big creature, I think it would be a change of pace from a Blackhawk.  :rock
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Vudu15 on December 21, 2011, 10:03:03 PM
Some Ive taken while stationed in Germany.

(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Vuduvince/078.jpg)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Vuduvince/055.jpg)
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Vuduvince/071.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: eagl on December 21, 2011, 10:08:27 PM
Some Ive taken while stationed in Germany.

Hey you got to ride in a Hind?

(That's a bad Eagle joke in case you didn't get it... google blackhawk F-15 shootdown for the tragic story)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: MachFly on December 21, 2011, 11:34:19 PM
There are a few and they're all basically the same.  Caught the resident Philly airplane photo geek taking pictures earlier this year. Turned out he caught me.  Was it this one?

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5673976888_6354cdcc84.jpg)



Yes sir, would you happen to have a larger one?
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tupac on December 22, 2011, 12:42:43 AM
:lol I can see on of our shops in the Ontonagon pic!  :aok

Yall have got some really pretty country up there. Do you live in Ontonagon?
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Chinook47 on December 22, 2011, 07:08:02 AM
My MOS
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k259/Gaseous_Anomaly/AW%20BBS/6046071505_c5f7fbef2a_b.jpg)

i dont mean to be an a**, but what caused yall to drop our chinook? we came in to pick up the dart team the next day and saw what it looked like after i got dropped.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Chinook47 on December 22, 2011, 07:21:05 AM
photos ive taken in afghanistan

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/47crewcheif/P1000259.jpg)
Triple Hook Sling Load

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/47crewcheif/P1000295.jpg)

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/47crewcheif/P1000281.jpg)

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/47crewcheif/P1000355.jpg)
Antonov AN-124

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd460/47crewcheif/P1000240.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Melvin on December 22, 2011, 07:19:41 PM
Yall have got some really pretty country up there. Do you live in Ontonagon?

No, I live and work in the south central U.P.

However, the company I work for has a storage/test facility in O-town. (East side of the river right next to the breakwater.) On occasion I have the good fortune of spending quality time in the area.

 If you ever make it back to the U.P. I have to recommend you take a trip up into the Keweenaw Peninsula. Land your bird and spend an evening at the Keweenaw Mountain Lodge. Copper Harbor has some great history as well. If I could pick any other place to live, other than where I'm at, it would be in the Keweenaw.

 :salute

EDIT: Yeah, I know Sidnaw quite well too. And Frenchy, that was a great pic.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tupac on December 22, 2011, 07:27:00 PM
Do you know Diz and Brad Frederick? They are the caretakers of the airport up at Sidnaw and they have a fly-in every year. I should be back up that way labor day weekend.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Melvin on December 22, 2011, 07:33:45 PM
While I do know some Fredericks, I can't say that I know those two.

Did you land at any other fields in the area?
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tupac on December 22, 2011, 07:35:53 PM
Ontonagon, Sidnaw, and Land o Lakes Wisconsin. Those were the only 3
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Melvin on December 22, 2011, 07:52:31 PM
Tupac, Check P.M.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Vudu15 on December 22, 2011, 08:08:56 PM
Hey you got to ride in a Hind?

(That's a bad Eagle joke in case you didn't get it... google blackhawk F-15 shootdown for the tragic story)


sat in the front seat, never got a ride though.
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Vuduvince/033.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Wolfala on December 22, 2011, 11:25:51 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/376385_10150505114451214_656951213_10694735_863206066_n.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 22, 2011, 11:49:22 PM
Since folks are posting photos that mean something to them with aviation instead of favorite aircraft.

The old man in the cockpit of a Spitfire II at RAF Coltishall 1985
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Spitdweeb-1.jpg)

Oldest son in the cockpit of an F4D Phantom II 1994 or so
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/DrewF4-1.jpg)

Youngest son on the wing of a combat vet WW2 P51D Mustang 2011
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/TT1.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: MachFly on December 23, 2011, 12:49:45 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/376385_10150505114451214_656951213_10694735_863206066_n.jpg)

Nice!  :aok
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: EskimoJoe on December 23, 2011, 03:57:47 AM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/376385_10150505114451214_656951213_10694735_863206066_n.jpg)

A UFO! I hope you shot it down!
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Rob52240 on December 23, 2011, 04:06:41 AM
(http://www.aviationpics.de/fod/0102_001.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: STXAce8 on December 23, 2011, 07:47:32 AM
(http://www.aviationpics.de/fod/0102_001.jpg)
:rofl
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Rob52240 on December 23, 2011, 08:03:17 AM
Another gem

(http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/galleries/images/1730/500x400/lions-sheltering-underwing.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Stoney on December 23, 2011, 11:01:49 AM
Took this one during a training exercise in Okinawa back in 1999.  I think it was the screen saver for every HMLA in the Marine Corps for a while...

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/stonewall74/KickAssSnake.png)

Me with his wingman in the background...

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/stonewall74/MeandtheSnake.png)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Seanaldinho on December 23, 2011, 11:14:13 AM
Nice spoon :ahand


Me with his wingman in the background...

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/stonewall74/MeandtheSnake.png)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: ebfd11 on December 23, 2011, 11:16:26 AM
Stoney is that the NTA you took that pic from???

LawnDart

and that is a beautiful bird.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Treize69 on December 23, 2011, 01:35:25 PM
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p380.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3814.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3815.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3817.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3818.jpg)

I win.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Stoney on December 24, 2011, 02:29:48 AM
Nice spoon :ahand


A well-equipped Marine is never far from his spoon... :)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Stoney on December 24, 2011, 02:34:05 AM
Stoney is that the NTA you took that pic from???

LawnDart

and that is a beautiful bird.

Its from the top of the hill at W-174, which is sort of southwest of Naha.  There's a bombing range out there on the island in front of the hill I'm on there.  Had 53's drop myself and 3 other Marines out there with a battalion 81's platoon and the FACs/AO.  3 days I think.  We were controlling the airspace in the Warning Area and doing the long haul comms back to the island.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Grayeagle on December 25, 2011, 01:24:17 PM
Udorn, 1975.
After the Fall of Saigon we had a few months of 'normal ops' before the student riots and 'Palace Lightning' ..the U.S. pull out of Southeast Asia.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/old%20days/Udorn1975.jpg)

That F-4 off my right shoulder chucked a few turbine blades out the left engine one night just after sundown during an engine run.
I was workin a couple revetments down, heard the engine fire up, a few seconds later throttle was advanced and it 'coughed' ..
..bright flash out front of the revetment.
Engine returned to idle ..then crew cheif ran it up again.
Bright sparks overhead in high arcs as several turbine blades departed the aircraft,
..engine sounded like a roaring fire instead of a jet engine this time,
..much brighter out front and flames/smoke comin over the top of my arc of view
( I had glanced up and seen the sparks arcing into the sky at the sound change)

I shut my bird down, peeked around the corner, saw the crew cheif beating feet off to the horizon
..and the flashing light parade off in the distance headin my way.

I exited the area post haste.
The bird burnt to a greasy spot.

Investigation revealed the crew cheif had failed to install the engine screen lower safety lock
(big gnarly steel lookin thing with a safety pin to keep the lower half of the screen hooked tight to the bird)
When it coughed apparantly it sucked in that big steel safety lock.

Just another day on the line.

-GE aka Frank
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: evenhaim on December 25, 2011, 04:45:56 PM
any picture by this guy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n-g-p/
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Guppy35 on December 25, 2011, 09:42:02 PM
Udorn, 1975.
After the Fall of Saigon we had a few months of 'normal ops' before the student riots and 'Palace Lightning' ..the U.S. pull out of Southeast Asia.

(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/old%20days/Udorn1975.jpg)

That F-4 off my right shoulder chucked a few turbine blades out the left engine one night just after sundown during an engine run.
I was workin a couple revetments down, heard the engine fire up, a few seconds later throttle was advanced and it 'coughed' ..
..bright flash out front of the revetment.
Engine returned to idle ..then crew cheif ran it up again.
Bright sparks overhead in high arcs as several turbine blades departed the aircraft,
..engine sounded like a roaring fire instead of a jet engine this time,
..much brighter out front and flames/smoke comin over the top of my arc of view
( I had glanced up and seen the sparks arcing into the sky at the sound change)

I shut my bird down, peeked around the corner, saw the crew cheif beating feet off to the horizon
..and the flashing light parade off in the distance headin my way.

I exited the area post haste.
The bird burnt to a greasy spot.

Investigation revealed the crew cheif had failed to install the engine screen lower safety lock
(big gnarly steel lookin thing with a safety pin to keep the lower half of the screen hooked tight to the bird)
When it coughed apparantly it sucked in that big steel safety lock.

Just another day on the line.

-GE aka Frank

I'm sorry GE but you were never that young :)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tec on December 25, 2011, 10:45:06 PM
I have too much junk on the hard drive to go through and pick one favorite, but here's a couple of my favs from Oshkosh last year.
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4107/4950178552_8c5dd92e2b_b.jpg)
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4126/4949565735_f51b46b7df_b.jpg)
 
Just a practice run getting to know the camera, have a few ideas I can't wait to implement next time I go.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Raphael on December 25, 2011, 11:20:19 PM
yak is one beautiful airplane
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Ruah on December 26, 2011, 12:09:24 AM
what system did you use for that?

Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: SilverZ06 on December 26, 2011, 12:17:45 AM
I have too much junk on the hard drive to go through and pick one favorite, but here's a couple of my favs from Oshkosh last year.
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4107/4950178552_8c5dd92e2b_b.jpg)
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4126/4949565735_f51b46b7df_b.jpg)
 
Just a practice run getting to know the camera, have a few ideas I can't wait to implement next time I go.

Way too heavy on the HDR. It is not supposed to look like a cartoon.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: EskimoJoe on December 26, 2011, 12:24:23 AM
Way too heavy on the HDR. It is not supposed to look like a cartoon.

Who are you to tell whether or not another's piece of art was supposed to look like? I think it's incredible and visually stunning.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Golfer on December 26, 2011, 12:34:03 AM
Says you.  This is one of the first I did a few years ago screwing around with Photomatix

(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/IMG_0341_39_40.jpg)

(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/FrenchSunset.jpg)

Took this sometime this past summer. There was quite a bit of mist in the air that didn't quite come through as well as in person.

(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/mistynight.jpg)

Took our mechanics kids Flat Stanley with us to Punta Cana this year also.

(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/flatstanley1.jpg)

(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/flatstanley2.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tec on December 26, 2011, 01:49:24 AM
what system did you use for that?



Shot on a Pentax K20(any DSLR in bracket mode should work), and put together with I believe photomatix but not sure at the moment as it's on my other machine.

Golfer that shot of the harbor is wallpaper worthy!
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: M0nkey_Man on December 26, 2011, 01:55:51 AM
Took this one at the last airshow
(http://i751.photobucket.com/albums/xx154/mohaam0nkey/SAM_0004.jpg)

(http://www.fas.org/man//dod-101/sys/ac/a-10-19990422-f-7910d-509.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Selino631 on December 26, 2011, 02:27:29 AM
i took both of these while on missions the last couple months over here in Afghanistan.

(http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s346/Selino30/332896_10150475711792558_754162557_8609960_1184011731_o.jpg)

(http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s346/Selino30/266685_10150246216202558_754162557_7238256_403905_o.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Pigslilspaz on December 26, 2011, 05:20:22 AM
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p380.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3814.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3815.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3817.jpg)
(http://www.aero-farm.com/aircraft/p3818.jpg)

I win.
California Capitol Airshow?
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: perdue3 on December 26, 2011, 09:41:59 AM
(http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/328/328788.jpg)

(http://www.greatwarflyingmuseum.com/planes/images/our_planes_small/fjk.jpg)

(http://realitypod.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Messerschmitt-Bf-109-1.jpg)

(http://www.americanbarnstormerstour.com/images/barnstormers/1929-Travel-Air-4000-2b.jpg)

Most beautiful plane ever built and flown:

(http://aerofiles.com/lusc-phantom.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Grayeagle on December 26, 2011, 01:49:16 PM
Tec: Love the pix ..Yak and Stang both look almost like paintings, very worthy!

Some nice pix in here .. tuff to come up with one single image as I literally have hundreds.
Thinkin about it the pix I posted kinda jumped out .. was so long ago the F-4 was 'state of the art'
..I have so many others from air shows here an there an everywhere.

-Frank aka GE
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: ink on December 26, 2011, 08:08:04 PM
Who are you to tell whether or not another's piece of art was supposed to look like? I think it's incredible and visually stunning.

 :rofl

thats the first thought that I got.......


damn TEC those are awesome I don't even like the 51 particularly but damn that photo is stunning  :aok
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: B4Buster on December 26, 2011, 08:21:49 PM
Took our mechanics kids Flat Stanley with us to Punta Cana this year also.


(http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff345/martinguitarist/flatstanley1.jpg)

You monitor the emergency frequency too, eh?
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Tec on December 26, 2011, 08:31:42 PM
damn TEC those are awesome I don't even like the 51 particularly but damn that photo is stunning  :aok

Thanks man, there a few more of them I posted on the AoM board somewhere right after the show I think.
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: -aper- on December 27, 2011, 12:01:49 AM
Looks good to me...
(http://www.wuala.com/en/api/preview/-aper-/AH/mig3.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: EskimoJoe on December 27, 2011, 06:31:25 AM
Looks good to me...
(http://www.wuala.com/en/api/preview/-aper-/AH/mig3.jpg)

Looks pregnant -- and I don't think it was yours  :devil
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: Scherf on December 27, 2011, 04:14:51 PM
One of 8 Group Photographic Officer Squadron Leader Howard Lee's classics. It appears in Ian Thirsk's book:

(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad212/mhuxt/HLMOSQUITOPHOTOTAKINGOFFFROMRAFWYTONOVERHEADB17S.jpg)
Title: Re: your favorite aviation photos?
Post by: cactuskooler on December 27, 2011, 04:29:03 PM
Most of these were taken with my trusty, yet ancient, cellphone camera. 

This was on the way to an airshow.  We're flying formation with a Travel Air Biplane, which in this case is mostly red.  Anything red with multiple wings is the Red Baron, in my mind.  The winding creeks and farmland as far as the eye can see might as well be part of Europe.  There's some metal wires in front of my open cockpit which masquerade as being necessary to hold the plane together; they form an X shape though so obviously they must a gunsight.  That's all the ingredients I needed for for short jump back in time.

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0925091653a.jpg)

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0925091653.jpg)

P-51 Lady Jo, with duel controls.  Ohh baby..

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0925001454.jpg)

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0925001451a.jpg)

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0925001451.jpg)

B-17 Sentimental Journey.

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0829091601-1.jpg)

Aero Union P-3s.  Aero Union is no more as of not too long ago.  Not sure where the planes are now, probably Sacramento I'd guess.  27 used to be my Grandfather's plane.

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/0512001423-1.jpg)

Taxiing in after a flight in an N3N.

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh473/cactuskooler/Untitled-11-6.jpg)