The 1992 open house at Edwards had the SR-71 static, and only one flight was done, its departure, and what an amazing sight it was.
kdrk888 wrote:
Excellent shots, Laura! My very first airshow was in 1990 in Dayton when I was a student at the Ohio State. That was my first year in the U.S. I remember Thunderbirds were there but can't remember what else I saw. I remember I had the impression that all the pilots with their Ray Ban sunglasses on looked like Tom Cruise in Top Gun.
I have seen the B-2 5 or 6 times, here are two of my favorite ones:
OK, I went to see the Solute to America flyover in Baltimore yesterday afternoon. I spent an hour scouting for a good spot based on the flight path published, ended up choosing the very first spot I picked. The flight path published wasn't exact, the spot many photographers and I choose gave us the almost direct view of the planes bellies.
The Thunderbirds came first, then a B-2 with four F-22s, then a B-1 with four F-35s, then four F-15s, the last was the B-52. It was over in about 90 seconds.
I was so glad to see the B-1 in flight. As mentioned in my previous posts, I must have been to over 50 airshows in the last 10 years, not once I saw the B-1 in flight, so it was very rewarding yesterday. I had never seen a B-52 in flight until the Memorial Day last year. I was chatting with a Vietnam vet near the Lincoln Memorial when I was photographing the Rolling Thunder, I told him that I had yet to see a B-52 in flight, lo and behold, as we were chatting, he pointed to the distant sky and said: "there is your B-52.". It was kind of far away but I saw it. I have seen B-52s in flight quite a few times since then. Talking about famine and feast!
You have have a blessed Sunday!
Douglas
*The pictures shown below are not in the order they flew, it more less reflects the priority of my interest yesterday.
brian_sp wrote:
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bloody awesome Douglas, now i am even more mad at the border closures
Thank you, Brian! The border closing is so unprecedented and so unreal. I doubt if this has ever happened before. I saw some of your shots of fighter jets at sunset and at night, just spectacular! I haven’t had a chance to shoot them at these times of the day. It’s quite outside of the typical airshow time. I need to check that of my list.
Chandler and I had a great day yesterday. 16 hour day with THI around 110, but it was great to be back in the groove with my right hand guy.............
kdrk888 wrote:
Thank you, Brian! The border closing is so unprecedented and so unreal. I doubt if this has ever happened before. I saw some of your shots of fighter jets at sunset and at night, just spectacular! I haven’t had a chance to shoot them at these times of the day. It’s quite outside of the typical airshow time. I need to check that of my list.
Thank you Douglas....2 of the best options for night shows are Oshkosh and airshow london with IMO airshow london having the better option of military planes at night, from what i have seen of oshkosh it is a lot of aerobatic acts at night
if you ever decide on airshow london be sure to let me know
brian_sp wrote:
Thank you Douglas....2 of the best options for night shows are Oshkosh and airshow london with IMO airshow london having the better option of military planes at night, from what i have seen of oshkosh it is a lot of aerobatic acts at night
if you ever decide on airshow london be sure to let me know
I can say, definitively, that this particular image would not have happened had I not been shooting the 1DX III/600mm Series III combination last evening. The frame rate was 16 fps and this is the only shot of this.............
brian_sp wrote:
Thank you Douglas....2 of the best options for night shows are Oshkosh and airshow london with IMO airshow london having the better option of military planes at night, from what i have seen of oshkosh it is a lot of aerobatic acts at night
if you ever decide on airshow london be sure to let me know
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