Go4Long wrote:
My tickets for RIAT arrived this year. got some awesome seats. 3 rows from the top, two seat from the far east end. Hoping to be as lucky as I was last year this year.
I'm selling my Nikon 200-500mm as I've only used it maybe twice since acquiring the 400mm...it just doesn't seem to fit with the way I have my kit set up. It's listed in the B&S if anyone is interested. It's essentially brand new.
In other news...Kidlet #1 has taken up T-Ball...she's hilarious. You tell her to watch the ball and she hits it and just stands there with the bat still watching it go.
Working on half dozen commercial real estate projects for one of the biggest property companies in the world. I used to do a ton of commercial work, but residential has eclipsed that exponentially. Although, it looks like I'll be shooting several commercial architecture "firsts" over the next few years. The diversity of my subjects really serves to keep me from getting bored with any one area, I love it.
Yikes! Another new driver on the road....when I remember my first year of driving, it makes me thank the good Lord above that I survived!
Tell him to keep his eye on the ball! ( and the other idiot on the road )
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Lockmart has been working up their F-35 Paris airshow demo in the last week or two.
I've caught it twice. Low show and high show. It's short but it shows a bit of F-22 familial maneuvering that I didn't think the F-35 had in it....hmmm
Did the behind the scenes tour today, after getting off after a twelve hour shift. Pace isn't conducive to taking photos though, it's move along, move along...
alawadhi wrote:
Looking forward to meet you there Steven.
Can we get a list (contact phone numbers?) for MA2A members at RIAT? I will be there with my brother-in-law Friday & Saturday (we are in Pimms enclosure one day and Cotswold enclosure the other and are commuting from Camberley each day(. Tel 07720289311
Niall
ELinder wrote:
I just looked over the RIAT website and saw the number of countries participating. No wonder you guys are excited, it looks like a great show!
Just moments ago, I buried one of my friends, knew him 25 years ago, quarter a century ago, my age, suffered a brain tumor, went into surgery 2 weeks back, never made it after. He was in a coma the whole time till yesterday, when he passed away.
Mixed feelings, put aside the feeling of the loss itself, at least to myself, I started burying friends years ago, strong pain in my chest, although a silent one. Do not get me wrong, my view is not black, I am full of life, and I value every second of it, if one second more is there in my life, I try to make it valuable to me and the entire mankind (following prophet Mohamed's saying "If the Final Hour comes while you have a palm-cutting in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
Is it a reminder of something? A reminder that I am getting older? A reminder of something which I neglect most of the time? A reminder of the human nature of life and death?
My chest is burning, although I am silent and calm from the outside. I cannot control it.
So sorry for your loss, Anwar. I can't answer your philosophical questions, but as it's coming up on the fifth anniversary of my best friend's death, I can commiserate with you on the pain and sorrow, but also remembering the joy we had for 35 years together.
Some of my friends are musicians, and they held concerts this weekend with instruments that haven't really been out of his studio in several years. I attended both nights for us. While he was home on hospice care, two of them visited three times, and gave a mini concert in our living room with guitar and flutes.
The instruments along the back, as well as the two up front, were hand made.
alawadhi wrote:
It started a long way back...
Just moments ago, I buried one of my friends, knew him 25 years ago, quarter a century ago, my age, suffered a brain tumor, went into surgery 2 weeks back, never made it after. He was in a coma the whole time till yesterday, when he passed away.
Mixed feelings, put aside the feeling of the loss itself, at least to myself, I started burying friends years ago, strong pain in my chest, although a silent one. Do not get me wrong, my view is not black, I am full of life, and I value every second of it, if one second more is there in my life, I try to make it valuable to me and the entire mankind (following prophet Mohamed's saying "If the Final Hour comes while you have a palm-cutting in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."
Is it a reminder of something? A reminder that I am getting older? A reminder of something which I neglect most of the time? A reminder of the human nature of life and death?
My chest is burning, although I am silent and calm from the outside. I cannot control it. ...Show more →
A Spitfire nosed over on takeoff at an airshow in northern France earlier today. The pilot is hospitalized but his injuries are said not to be life-threatening.
Looking at the video, it seems like he had full left rudder against a presumed right crosswind as the tail starts to come up, then full right rudder after the prop dug in and caused a swing to the left.
stevez wrote:
A Spitfire nosed over on takeoff at an airshow in northern France earlier today. The pilot is hospitalized but his injuries are said not to be life-threatening.
Looking at the video, it seems like he had full left rudder against a presumed right crosswind as the tail starts to come up, then full right rudder after the prop dug in and caused a swing to the left.
Now that was very lucky. I'm not sure that the Spit was pointed true to the runway CL before the coals went on the fire. I'm deeply unimpressed with the auto gyro taxiing down the crowd line past the inverted Spit with smoke coming out of it and the pilot trapped inside The show looks a bit disorganised from the admittedly narrow viewpoint of the you tube clip.
Sorry I missed your post, and very sorry for your loss. This weekend has been about family, milestones, a Grandson graduating and getting ready to head off to Texas A&M in a few months. Happy milestones, but "tick, tock..." is always in the background. Your Prophet was correct, Malcom Forbes said something similar, "While alive......Live!" It's no secret that we have a 100% mortality rate on this journey, just a question of when, but we cannot let that, and all the negativity that surrounds us everyday drown out the beauty, the kindness, the love, the gifts we've been given. I suggest you sit down with "Bunny" look into her eyes, and let her tell you, without a word, why this life is worth the living.
Jesus summed it up in Matthew 6:27 "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifespan?". Every time I pull through the airport gate I am gripped by the memory and the loss of two great friends, two of dozens that have gone before. Plant that palm, make those memories, don't dwell on the inevitable. As the Scriptures say, "don't worry about tomorrow, does not today have enough troubles of it's own.....? Brush those troubles away and find the gems, they are there, and they are all that matters.
z wrote:
The show looks a bit disorganised from the admittedly narrow viewpoint of the you tube clip. 