Ditto, great shots Jim.
Mars, Jupiter and the moon were lined up pretty neat every morning a few weeks ago.
About 5:30am was perfect and saw them driving to work every morning.
Wanted to try some pixs but not enough time.
Drove a total of 500 miles today to Oceana, Virginia to watch my last airshow of the season, a bit easier than going to Belgium for an airshow. I just heard Brussels airport got hacked today and it was a mess. Glad I got home Tuesday.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
This Boeing is just a couple more flights away from the paint shop, and then the fun really begins..........
I have not flown in many years Jim. Planes have grown to be enormous!!!
I am on the flight paths to Dulles and BWI. Dulles has these "monsters" lined up for landing. When they fill my 400mm lens from edge to edge and are 5 miles away..that IS big!!
You are right, last week I was standing underneath the fuselage just ahead of the landing gear, the enormity just struck me. They loaded 80,000 pounds of fuel each morning. These flights are at relatively low flight levels so they are blasting through fuel.
cs3is wrote:
Few more from the F22 Demo Team. It is nice to see young ones tag along with dads and grand dads to experience the wonderful world of aviation.
What a set, cs3is! The F-22 looked so close to the spectators!
Another main reason I took the trip to Belgium was to see the Lancaster bomber, I have never seen one. Too bad it didn't fly on either Sat or Sun, due to technical issues, I think. But I did see this Avro Anson Mk.I from the Czech Republic. According to the organizer, this is "the world’s only airworthy Avro Anson Mk.I.". Due to the horrible lighting, slow shutter speed and my poor panning skill, I only managed to get a few goods shots of this bird.
Douglas L wrote:
What a set, cs3is! The F-22 looked so close to the spectators!
Another main reason I took the trip to Belgium was to see the Lancaster bomber, I have never seen one. Too bad it didn't fly on either Sat or Sun, due to technical issues, I think. But I did see this Avro Anson Mk.I from the Czech Republic. According to the organizer, this is "the world’s only airworthy Avro Anson Mk.I.". Due to the horrible lighting, slow shutter speed and my poor panning skill, I only managed to get a few goods shots of this bird.
Great shot's Douglas despite your poor panning skills.
The Lancaster will go into maintenance at the end of the display season , so it will not be available for display next year.
I have read that one of the engine's I thought No 1 will be replaced with a zero hour engine because the current one is at its's end of live span.
It also will receive a new livery, probably will have something to do with the tallboy raids and subsequently sinking of the Tirpitz.
At least that are the rumors.
Douglas L wrote:
What a set, cs3is! The F-22 looked so close to the spectators!
Another main reason I took the trip to Belgium was to see the Lancaster bomber, I have never seen one. Too bad it didn't fly on either Sat or Sun, due to technical issues, I think. But I did see this Avro Anson Mk.I from the Czech Republic. According to the organizer, this is "the world’s only airworthy Avro Anson Mk.I.". Due to the horrible lighting, slow shutter speed and my poor panning skill, I only managed to get a few goods shots of this bird.
That is one strange bird from the relics . These shots looks good
Is that rolling shutter on the wall
. These shots looks good 
