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Antonov AN-124 preparing to go out on rwy 08R at Vancouver Intl after the delivery of a SkyCrane Helicopter.
Before summer kicks in and the airshows start again I'm trying to see if I can get anything useable from the remaining shots from my old camera. The next few shots from me will be ones that I origonally didn't feel quite cut it. But I've worked up to bring out the little they had going for them. Sometimes the shots are fine but just don't have the detail to work as a large print.
Another shot of one of 'our' Hercules aircraft, and I was fortunate to have an interesting sky this time.
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Apologies for the White background. A work colleague has been asing me to build a single seater Prop aircraft for his desk for years - so here it is.
Seen here in the sky above the RAF base at Waddington, Lincolnshire on the preview day for the 2012 airshow. 29/06/2012 This image was taken a split second after the previous image I posted. Here the vapour cloud is in its dying stage. I would guess it was only there for a second or two at most.
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A6-EEU 'Year of Zayed' YBBN 9/2/2018 in late PM light.
Sheik on a plane – Emirates celebrates “great leader” Sheikh Zayed.
Emirates Airbus A380 A6-EUA takes off from Melbourne on January 10 2018. (Dave Soda)
Emirates A380 A6-EUA takes off from Melbourne on January 10. (Dave Soderstrom)
The smiling face of HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan on the side of an aircraft is becoming an increasingly common sight at airports across the country.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has declared 2018 the “Year of Zayed” to mark the birth of Sheikh Zayed, the first president of the country, 100 years ago in 1918. And as part of efforts to commemorate the milestone, Emirates’s Year of Zayed tribute features the image of Sheikh Zayed and the words “Celebrating 100 years since the birth of the great leader” on no fewer than five of its Airbus A380s and five Boeing 777s.
January 11, 2018 by australianaviation.com.au
NB: The amount of wheels on this mighty aircraft = 22.
A "Lancaster Bomber" with a "Hurricane" on one side and a "Spitfire" on the other make a impressive sight as they do a Flypass over Hulls East Park during The Veterans Weekend which was staged there.
The new ground-attack aircraft of the Avratic air force.
Although it is built mainly for ground attack roles, the Tornado can perform adequately as an air-to-air fighter as well. The plane also has a tail mounted 30 mm gun (operated by the gunner) to provide extra firepower and protection from attacking enemy aircraft.
Specifications:
Speed: 344 mph(maximum)
Crew: 2
Wingspan: 8.67 meters
Length: 7.98 meters
Range: 440 miles
Armament: 6x 50. cal machine guns, 1x tail-mounted 30 mm machine gun, 2x 300 kg bombs or torpedoes.
Powerplant: 1,350 Hp radial engine.
Taxiing in on a spectacular October day in 2010. I kind of like the way the reflection of the clouds wrap around the upper part of the fuselage.
Comme s'il était capable de voler sans utiliser d'hélices !!… Appears as if it could fly without the use of propellers !!…
Aerial meeting (1/7/18), Ochey, Lorraine (France)
Douglas C-54 Skymaster (7ATI)
Known as LA VACA SAGRADA, (THE SACRED COW) this aircraft is where Marcos Pérez Jiménez fled to the Dominican Republic after a civic-military movement that deposed him from the government on January 23, 1958
ZK-OLK YBBN BNE-NLK
(Norfolk Island, a new spotter's destination for yours truly).
Norfolk Island, a tiny Australian island in the South Pacific Ocean, is defined by pine trees and jagged cliffs. Sandy beaches include Emily Bay, with reef-protected waters. Norfolk Island National Park offers views over palm forests from Mt. Pitt. In the capital Kingston, the Norfolk Island Museum traces the island's colourful past. The Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area has a ruined British penal colony.
On my bucket list, for sure !
Inclusion of the person bottom right hand corner depicts the excitement one feels when such an aircraft taxies past so close. The fence may be a hindrance, but it doesn't diminish one's feelings for lovely aircraft.
Singapore Airlines A350-941 taxiing for take-off this afternoon, Singapore bound.
(This was my first trip back to the airport for some time and I was in for a nice surprise, having to drive under the soon to be completed new Brisbane runway).
Yes, another one!
I am very happy with the support I have received for my military aircraft photos. Thank you!
These venerable Hercules have a wonderful sound, and when they fly close to the ground (such as this, coming in for a landing), the wind turbulence is something else!
Thanks for looking, etc.:)
On the QANTAS flight from Brisbane back home yesterday. I was bored. The "cigar of ignorance" is an old reference to the experience of travelling on a plane - one gets on in one place, sees nothing and gets off somewhere else, having learned nothing from the experience.
Fuji X100S - This camera is easy to handhold at outrageously slow shutter speeds - this was at 0.4 seconds in a jiggling aircraft.
This just made it into Explore with only 119 views, wow, to no. 245 on June 20, 2014. Thanks everyone.
A Swordfish aircraft with the Royal Navy Historic Flight.
The Swordfish evolved from the prototype Fairey TSR.II (Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance), designed by Marcel Lobelle and HE Chaplin of the Fairey Aviation Company Ltd., first flew in 1934 and entered service with No.825 Squadron in 1936. In all, 2391 aircraft were built, the first 692 machines by Fairey Aviation and the remainder under licence by Blackburn Aircraft Company at their works at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Brough, Yorkshire. In service the Blackburn-built aircraft became unofficially known as "Blackfish". Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this very distinguished aircraft was its longevity.
Although by all normal standards it was already obsolete at the outbreak of WW2, it confounded everyone by remaining in operational service throughout the whole of the war, and thereby gained the distinction of being the last British bi-plane to see active service. Indeed, it outlasted its intended replacement, the Albacore, which disappeared from front-line service in 1943.
The Royal Navy Historic Flight are the guardians of the Fleet Air Arm’s proud history, upholding the memory of naval aviators by keeping vintage aircraft airborne.
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