Today Luke AFB and the Arizona Air National Guard did a fly over of the Phoenix area in a tribute to all the medical workers
and others fighting this virus. I decided today ,after completing a Air Force Flying career, that flying them may have been a
bit easier than photographing them today at my age and health. So i will leave the aerial photography up to you pros.
Harry Palmer
FLY ME TO THE MOON, on Air Force Wings.....
KC-135 tanker, Arizona Air National Guard (Copper Heads).
Kingfishphoto wrote:
Today Luke AFB and the Arizona Air National Guard did a fly over of the Phoenix area in a tribute to all the medical workers
and others fighting this virus. I decided today ,after completing a Air Force Flying career, that flying them may have been a
bit easier than photographing them today at my age and health. So i will leave the aerial photography up to you pros.
Harry Palmer
these fit right in with the best of them, nicely captured!
Kingfishphoto wrote:
Today Luke AFB and the Arizona Air National Guard did a fly over of the Phoenix area in a tribute to all the medical workers
and others fighting this virus. I decided today ,after completing a Air Force Flying career, that flying them may have been a
bit easier than photographing them today at my age and health. So i will leave the aerial photography up to you pros.
Harry Palmer
And the folks at Columbia are researching the immunity:
"What the Columbia researchers now describe in a preliminary report is cause for concern. They found that people frequently got reinfected with the same coronavirus, even in the same year, and sometimes more than once. Over a year and a half, a dozen of the volunteers tested positive two or three times for the same virus, in one case with just four weeks between positive results.
That’s a stark difference from the pattern with infections like measles or chicken pox, where people who recover can expect to be immune for life.
For the coronaviruses “immunity seems to wane quickly,” says Jeffrey Shaman, who carried out the research with Marta Galanti, a postdoctoral researcher."
Interesting reading for those interested in learning more.
One of the beautiful things about shooting the 1DX II, or III, I that you can shoot sequences like this and know that you are going to get "the shot" because of the buffer speed and AF accuracy. This was shot in ridiculously low light last evening out at "The Barn" ...................
Went to Arlington, Virginia today, hoping to get a few shots of the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds flying over the monuments in Washington DC. From where I stood, near the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial, I could have the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol all in sight. That's the only place in the area that offers this view. But the jets were simply flying too high for me to incorporate any ground elements in the frame unless I shot at a wider FL, then the jets would have just looked like little dots. Anyways, here are a couple shots from today, and one sunrise shot from the past so you could see the view I was hoping to get. There were a fair number of people where I was, everyone seemed to follow the social distancing guideline
Well done Douglas! If you remember, we had the same problem for the flight down the Hudson. The Blues were in time out for a little canopy bump a few days before and when we did our final brief before launch, Thunderbird 1 set 3500' as the hard deck and I believe that they were between there and 4,000' when they flew the mission. Completely worthless for most of us ground or airborne.
The DFW Flyover is set for 5/05 and I have thought a lot about some unique perspective but I've decided that I'm going simple, going to take James and get to a good viewing spot not far from home and just enjoy him enjoying it all.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Well done Douglas! If you remember, we had the same problem for the flight down the Hudson. The Blues were in time out for a little canopy bump a few days before and when we did our final brief before launch, Thunderbird 1 set 3500' as the hard deck and I believe that they were between there and 4,000' when they flew the mission. Completely worthless for most of us ground or airborne.
The DFW Flyover is set for 5/05 and I have thought a lot about some unique perspective but I've decided that I'm going simple, going to take James and get to a good viewing spot not far from home and just enjoy him enjoying it all....Show more →
Thank you very much Jim! I remember the NYC flyover you and I went. With the altitude the teams were flying at, from the ground, there was no way one could get both the New York skyline and the demo teams in the same frame without making the jets barely visible. Same deal at DC today. But I enjoyed being there. These teams make me proud.
kdrk888 wrote:
Thank you very much Jim! I remember the NYC flyover you and I went. With the altitude the teams were flying at, from the ground, there was no way one could get both the New York skyline and the demo teams in the same frame without making the jets barely visible. Same deal at DC today. But I enjoyed being there. These teams make me proud.
I feel the same Douglas! It was a strange feeling not being able to capture some striking imagery, but I wouldn't have missed being there and hovering over the Hudson watching Chandler and Glenn over the city.
SOME RE-ASSEMBLY MAY BE REQUIRED. The Lockheed salesman states the have many accessories for this type
aircraft, radomes,engines,wings,stabilizers etc. Whatever you need or desire to bring this HANGER QUEEN back to realm as the KING OF THE HERCULES FLEET, of course at some extra cost to you. Coolidge Airport Arizona.
HarryPalmer
