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Williamtown Airshow

Postby biggerry on Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:13 am

Part of teh photo safari on saturday - certainly had some interesting flying machines there, a few that I have looked at and jumped out at me, at this point I am thinking my keeper ratio is about 25% :cry:

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That there would be the arse end of the new FA18
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Helicopters are not meant to fly, let alone like the way they did on this day, definitely made me cringe - as the saying goes, the only reason they fly is 'cause them things are sooo ugly mother nature repels them from the earth...

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burnt pig anyone?
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Postby radar on Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:19 am

Love the first two here. As you say, helicopters weren't meant to fly like that!!

That last one sure looks hottttt
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:31 pm

Awesome shots mate - what lens did you use for all of these the 300 f4 ?
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby biggerry on Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:40 pm

radar wrote:That last one sure looks hottttt


nothing like the smell of kero in the evening ehh...

Alpha_7 wrote:Awesome shots mate - what lens did you use for all of these the 300 f4 ?


yep, I used a mix of the 300mm f/4 coupled with a 1.4 TC and polariser (i ditched that after awhile - chasing them around the sky with different parts of the sky needing different settings was too much hard work). I actually found the 1.4TC and 300mm a bit too long on the crop sensor, also wide open there is a noticeable level of softness - I think anyway

anyay, most images were taken using just the 300mm.
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby aim54x on Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:06 pm

I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!

Choppers arent meant to fly like that!!!

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks?
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby biggerry on Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:30 pm

aim54x wrote:I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!


yeah the hornets are about as interesting as skool day, plus they are just too damn noisy and its not a nice noisy like the inline 12 cylinder monsters... :up:

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks


plenty of the fat pigs - but so does everyone else - probably the most photographed machine on the day!
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby aim54x on Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:31 pm

biggerry wrote:
aim54x wrote:I'm not a fan of the Hornets, but that is a stunner that you captured there Gerry!


yeah the hornets are about as interesting as skool day, plus they are just too damn noisy and its not a nice noisy like the inline 12 cylinder monsters... :up:

Do you have any more of the Aardvarks


plenty of the fat pigs - but so does everyone else - probably the most photographed machine on the day!


Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???

Can you post more of the pigs?
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby surenj on Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:39 am

Would you guys speak English? :wink:
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby biggerry on Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:43 pm

surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?


lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

aim54x wrote:Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???


yep, the merlins :up:
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby aim54x on Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:58 pm

biggerry wrote:
surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?


lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

:biglaugh:

aim54x wrote:Inline 12 cyinder monsters of the Rolls Royce kind???


yep, the merlins :up:


Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby chrisk on Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:09 pm

all great shots. i particualrly like the first.
25% hit rate for an airshow is bloody good aswell.
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby surenj on Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:42 am

biggerry wrote: surenj wrote:Would you guys speak English?
lol, I guess this is gonna confuse you even more then

:rotfl2: Ok Now I am up on the lingo...

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-111_aardvark.pl

Do you think the f111 was doing Mach 1.2 on the day? It sure felt like the sound came after that thing had gone past....
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby surenj on Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:45 am

aim54x wrote:Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?

Cameron, There were hardly any bugs there. I guess we are still at the tail-end of the winter.... :mrgreen:
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Re: Williamtown Airshow

Postby aim54x on Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:27 pm

surenj wrote:
aim54x wrote:Spits, Stangs or a Mozzie?

Cameron, There were hardly any bugs there. I guess we are still at the tail-end of the winter.... :mrgreen:


Well looking from Peter's photo gallery I did see at least one 'stang and a spit' but there seemed to be a lack of the bugs....mozzies are really beautiful wooden wonders
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