nrferguson wrote:
Been away a long time but FB seems to have replaced a lot of FM. Anyway, I was at RIAT last weekend with my new Canon R3 + 100-400 L II + 1.4x extender and am amazed at he results - I am falling in love with this camera (and the R5) and certainly won't be using my 1DX (or possibly my 1DX2 either) again. Here are a few of the Belgian F-16 solo demo and one of the Airbus Beluga XL (used to ferry wings around Europe)
Really love the paint scheme on those F16's!!!
The Beluga is appropriately named!! Fine images!
Dan
nrferguson wrote:
Been away a long time but FB seems to have replaced a lot of FM. Anyway, I was at RIAT last weekend with my new Canon R3 + 100-400 L II + 1.4x extender and am amazed at he results - I am falling in love with this camera (and the R5) and certainly won't be using my 1DX (or possibly my 1DX2 either) again. Here are a few of the Belgian F-16 solo demo and one of the Airbus Beluga XL (used to ferry wings around Europe)
Great shots! I read somewhere that Belgian F-16 pilot has over 5000 hours flying F-16, no wonder he can push that F-16 like nothing I have seen here in the states.
XHawkeye wrote:
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This is an amazing Vietnam war story, it's long but worth it. I ripped the audio and listened during my commute.
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There are many amazing Vietnam stories to be told.
Most are still buried beneath the politics of that period.
There were no "Welcome Home" parades, signs et al for us..just hate and vitriol!
Military service members here are excluded from that.
Dan
Absolutely correct, Brother Dan. And not many folks know that you and other specialized forces did two year tours for your service in Nam. God Bless you, RD. Welcome Home, for sure. Tony
anthonysemone wrote:
Absolutely correct, Brother Dan. And not many folks know that you and other specialized forces did two year tours for your service in Nam. God Bless you, RD. Welcome Home, for sure. Tony
Duty, Honor, Country......
Thanks brother(s)!!
S/F!!
RD
Headed out to shoot a plane for a friend, unfortunately not air to air because it's 104 degrees with a ramp temp of about 140. This will be a quick shoot!
Some of you might not have heard, my good friend Tom Poberezny passed away this morning around 2:30. Tom's Dad Paul founded the EAA and Tom took it to it's international status. Tom was world aerobatic champion, led The Red Devil aerobatic team as well as the Christen Eagles. Tom and I spent a lot of hours air to air shooting the teams and he always made sure I had "go anywhere" credentials at Oshkosh. He was a great guy and I'll miss him.
Appropriately, Tom died the morning AirVenture 2022 was due to kick off.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Some of you might not have heard, my good friend Tom Poberezny passed away this morning around 2:30. Tom's Dad Paul founded the EAA and Tom took it to it's international status. Tom was world aerobatic champion, led The Red Devil aerobatic team as well as the Christen Eagles. Tom and I spent a lot of hours air to air shooting the teams and he always made sure I had "go anywhere" credentials at Oshkosh. He was a great guy and I'll miss him.
Appropriately, Tom died the morning AirVenture 2022 was due to kick off.
As most of you guys may know, here in Central Texas we are having our usual 100°+ summer accompanied by a drought. During the last drought, about 7 or 8 years ago, I was mowing and started a fire. I had not been in the situation before, but my blade scraped a rock and caught the dead grass and chaff exiting the chute on fire. This was a first for me. I have over 5 acres of grass/weeds to mow. During a drought, the weeds continue to grow, so I wanted to spruce the place up a bit. I was using a lawn tractor back then and it did not blow out the chaff as well as my zero turn. Anyway, the spark ignited the dead grass and the chaff blowing out the chute. The fortunate thing was I was at the end of a row and turned around allowing me to see the fire. When I saw the fire, I shut down the mower and went to stomp it out. It burned about 9 square feet, plus the area where the chaff blew out. Thought I was going to catch my Wrangler jeans on fire and melt my sneakers.
I have not mowed since May and I will tolerate the weeds. The grass area is brown, sans the weeds. Anyway, the reason I wrote this is to explain why I wasn't surprised to see this:
"Balch Springs Fire Marshal Sean Davis Fox 4 Dallas said that the blade of a worker's mower generated a spark that ignited the flames in a nearby field around 4:00 p.m. on Monday."
That fire destroyed over two dozen homes in the Dallas area. Glad I learned my lesson on a much smaller scale with no serious damage.
Yikes Ray! I saw that deal in Balch Springs, terrible. I got distracted by the closing of Love Field because our daughter and Grandson Weston were supposed to come back from his orientation at Tech this afternoon. They ended up renting a car and driving back to Dallas. Everyone in the terminal was escorted out into the swelter for several hours while they handled the nut job and reprocessed everyone.
Ray Swindle wrote:
As most of you guys may know, here in Central Texas we are having our usual 100°+ summer accompanied by a drought. During the last drought, about 7 or 8 years ago, I was mowing and started a fire. I had not been in the situation before, but my blade scraped a rock and caught the dead grass and chaff exiting the chute on fire. This was a first for me. I have over 5 acres of grass/weeds to mow. During a drought, the weeds continue to grow, so I wanted to spruce the place up a bit. I was using a lawn tractor back then and it did not blow out the chaff as well as my zero turn. Anyway, the spark ignited the dead grass and the chaff blowing out the chute. The fortunate thing was I was at the end of a row and turned around allowing me to see the fire. When I saw the fire, I shut down the mower and went to stomp it out. It burned about 9 square feet, plus the area where the chaff blew out. Thought I was going to catch my Wrangler jeans on fire and melt my sneakers.
I have not mowed since May and I will tolerate the weeds. The grass area is brown, sans the weeds. Anyway, the reason I wrote this is to explain why I wasn't surprised to see this:
"Balch Springs Fire Marshal Sean Davis Fox 4 Dallas said that the blade of a worker's mower generated a spark that ignited the flames in a nearby field around 4:00 p.m. on Monday."
That fire destroyed over two dozen homes in the Dallas area. Glad I learned my lesson on a much smaller scale with no serious damage....Show more →
The MidAtlantic is under a huge heat wave also Ray. But there are breaks of afternoon thunderstorms for some areas. That only raises the humidity level.
Here it has been rain scarce. The weather fronts head right for us then as they pass over the mountains they split and head down I270 to N.Va and DC. The eastern half head towards Baltimore.
The weather forecasters here need to turn in their million dollar weather radar and get a wind sock and a pair of binoculars. Their forecast would be way more correct.
Yes my grass is brown also with patches of green where the sun doesn't hit.
Be safe and mindful of the weather and what it can do!
Dan
. Love that flying whale. 
