And what I did for this past Memorial Day weekend, was to visit the cemetery on Friday before the flags were placed, and put up some flowers, one bunch for each of the kids, two for me, and one cross each for the grandkids. Went back yesterday morning before they removed the flags and decorations to collect my things, but get the photo beforehand. Also visited the other sections to see if any new emblems had appeared, and got shots of those to add to my personal project here:
Spent the weekend in Breckenridge, Texas at their little airshow.
It only cost me 4184 shutter actuations, plus what ever I had on the phone and GoPro So it will take a minute to work through the pics...
Wow! what a show ... counting the two in the restoration shop, there were seven Corsairs on the field at least five Mustangs, three B-25's, 2 Seafury, 2 P-40, Tigercat, Wildcat, Spitfire, TBM, C-47x2, P-38, Albatross, Wigeon, A-26, The Tora crew and a whole gaggle of trianers. @ 60 warbirds total. ( and only one flip-flop act)
A lot of Heat on Saturday and welcome clouds on Sunday.
I was blessed to have been offered a few trips into the sky during the weekend.
We flew in Scott Glover's B-25 ( formerly know to Jim as Pacific Prowler) to Sweetwater, TX on Saturday morning to the WASP Museum to hang with some "old broads" that flew in WWII.
Saturday afternoon before supper, Scott offered to send me up in his T-28.
That was an adventurously short trip with a very clam and cool fella named Andrew.....
And again on Sunday Scott twisted my arm and 'made' me go flying with Kelly in the AT-6. ( I have officially been trained in the art of T-6 barrel rolls , WOOT! )
The rest of the weekend was spent on the ground among a great group of airplanes and the people who operate, maintain and fawn over them...like me .
I met some living legends in the US warbird world, some soon to be legends and some up and coming pilots that we have not heard the last of.
More to come later...I'm sure I'm not the only MA2A person there?
Zane Adams wrote:
Spent the weekend in Breckenridge, Texas at their little airshow.
It only cost me 4184 shutter actuations, plus what ever I had on the phone and GoPro So it will take a minute to work through the pics...
Wow! what a show ... counting the two in the restoration shop, there were seven Corsairs on the field at least five Mustangs, three B-25's, 2 Seafury, 2 P-40, Tigercat, Wildcat, Spitfire, TBM, C-47x2, P-38, Albatross, Wigeon, A-26, The Tora crew and a whole gaggle of trianers. @ 60 warbirds total. ( and only one flip-flop act)
A lot of Heat on Saturday and welcome clouds on Sunday.
I was blessed to have been offered a few trips into the sky during the weekend.
We flew in Scott Glover's B-25 ( formerly know to Jim as Pacific Prowler) to Sweetwater, TX on Saturday morning to the WASP Museum to hang with some "old broads" that flew in WWII.
Saturday afternoon before supper, Scott offered to send me up in his T-28.
That was an adventurously short trip with a very clam and cool fella named Andrew.....
And again on Sunday Scott twisted my arm and 'made' me go flying with Kelly in the AT-6. ( I have officially been trained in the art of T-6 barrel rolls , WOOT! )
The rest of the weekend was spent on the ground among a great group of airplanes and the people who operate, maintain and fawn over them...like me .
I met some living legends in the US warbird world, some soon to be legends and some up and coming pilots that we have not heard the last of.
More to come later...I'm sure I'm not the only MA2A person there?
Sad to hear that the Sea Vixen had a wheels up landing, although it did look to be about the best that situation could have been hoped to turn out. I added Yeovilton to my list of shows for this year since I was going to be in the UK for that week anyway...notable attendees included the Sea Vixen, but alas.
Still going to be an ok sweep through the UK for me, and I can't wait.
I need one of those MA2A shirts on the double.
Not sure if I posted this one here or not...don't think so :S
**EDIT** Ah shoot...I did post it already. Swap it for this one.
Looking forward to your images Zane, sounds like a great show. Will that be an annual event? I was otherwise engaged at The Circle T Ranch, or I might have flown in for a day of the show.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Looking forward to your images Zane, sounds like a great show. Will that be an annual event? I was otherwise engaged at The Circle T Ranch, or I might have flown in for a day of the show.
Jim,
They were excited about the crowd numbers and seemed optimistic that they will be able to do it again next year....and hopefully back to annual status.
The Cloud cover on Sunday provided some much needed relief from the heat on Saturday...but it created photographic challenges...
Zane, a weekend like that would have made my decade! WOO HOOOOOOOO!
Zane Adams wrote:
Spent the weekend in Breckenridge, Texas at their little airshow.
It only cost me 4184 shutter actuations, plus what ever I had on the phone and GoPro So it will take a minute to work through the pics...
Wow! what a show ... counting the two in the restoration shop, there were seven Corsairs on the field at least five Mustangs, three B-25's, 2 Seafury, 2 P-40, Tigercat, Wildcat, Spitfire, TBM, C-47x2, P-38, Albatross, Wigeon, A-26, The Tora crew and a whole gaggle of trianers. @ 60 warbirds total. ( and only one flip-flop act)
A lot of Heat on Saturday and welcome clouds on Sunday.
I was blessed to have been offered a few trips into the sky during the weekend.
We flew in Scott Glover's B-25 ( formerly know to Jim as Pacific Prowler) to Sweetwater, TX on Saturday morning to the WASP Museum to hang with some "old broads" that flew in WWII.
Saturday afternoon before supper, Scott offered to send me up in his T-28.
That was an adventurously short trip with a very clam and cool fella named Andrew.....
And again on Sunday Scott twisted my arm and 'made' me go flying with Kelly in the AT-6. ( I have officially been trained in the art of T-6 barrel rolls , WOOT! )
The rest of the weekend was spent on the ground among a great group of airplanes and the people who operate, maintain and fawn over them...like me .
I met some living legends in the US warbird world, some soon to be legends and some up and coming pilots that we have not heard the last of.
More to come later...I'm sure I'm not the only MA2A person there?
alawadhi wrote:
I am out of this world since last Thursday, my bunny isn't here, her father took her for a week as he has a week off duty.
She will be returning by Friday night, so till then, God help me
Anyway, believe it or not, I noticed it now
Sorry to hear that you have been without your Sweetie, big hole in your heart, but Friday will be here soon. I'll run across something one of them left out after a visit and it just tugs at me. They make life worth living.
The last few days of dawn to dusk aerial work just flat wore me out. Warm, rough summer air has returned and it takes it out of you. I had a helicopter scheduled again for today, but moved it to next week, just couldn't face it a third day in a row. Yesterday evening Chandler and I did a couple hour drone assignment and then I had another one early this morning for a road paving group. Ran through four batteries on the P4Pro this morning, looks like I need to order a couple more, eight is probably a minimum to have ready to go.
I have to admit, the darn thing is a pretty amazing bit of technology, and I am just barely scraping the surface of it's capabilities. I haven't done any mission programming or anything yet, just hand flying each run. You learn something new every flight, and then even more when you review the clips. Difficult to smoothly combine motions and a jerky correction virtually destroys a great clip. Like the old cigarette commercial used to say, "you've come a long way baby....!" This morning the client had a huge paving machine running in a new development, it spans a two lane residential street, including the curbs. They had tandem dump trucks filled with concrete, lined up nose to tail, waiting to back up to the hopper/conveyor that was delivering the ready mix to the center of the roadway. By the end of the assignment I was flying in high and low, weaving through the laborers and the equipment. Got some outstanding footage. The crew got a big kick out of it as well. I'm sure it will be somewhat less stressful as I get a hundred or so hours under my belt, but right now, a couple hours of flying that drone in those circumstances and I'm pretty tapped.
Sent the master folder of images from this project off to this client today, and their response was, "Better plan on a lot more pages in the annual report......!" I'll take that as a good thing
The image on the flat screen is Chili on a sunrise Seadoo ride in Florida.
Zane Adams wrote:
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I was blessed to have been offered a few trips into the sky during the weekend.
We flew in Scott Glover's B-25 ( formerly know to Jim as Pacific Prowler) to Sweetwater, TX on Saturday morning to the WASP Museum to hang with some "old broads" that flew in WWII.
To think that Shooter started this sequel thread in December 2007 with a photo taken out that very window. Actually, I believe that the photo Jim posted to start the original Mustang Air to Air thread in October 2006 was also taken from that window.
