Eastbourne airshow 2010 – from Beachy Head

Lovely shots – I think the sea as a backdrop makes a nice change. I liked the First F-16 shot and the Cat over the Lighthouse is a cracking shot as well.
Strange nobody has posted anything of the Bournemouth airshow although I gather the weather was not too good yesterday.

Martin – for those of us who can’t get to the featured airshows this part of the forum is superb, but I must say one of the highlights for me every year is your selection of shots from Beachy Head. These are wonderful, and the shot of the Reds over a murky Eastbourne pier is a winner. Well done!

Stunning pic’s Martin 🙂

Thanks

Last lot. Five from Thursday followed by four from Friday. The rest from Sunday.

Three more from Saturday. The Spit in one of them is not sharp However it is with the Hurricane which is sharp.

Thank you all for your nice comments.

Next load of pics from me – all from Saturday as it was the better day all round. The rest to follow later. Most of the jets including the Reds formations were taken with a 500mm lens with 1.4 TC. The prop jobs without the 1.4. A few are a little far away but I am posting them anyway.

Nice to have met you on Sunday. How did you keep still enough to get decent pictures in that wind. I’ve got similar pix on the Mustang and F16 (i.e. same pix but fuzzy!)
Looking forward to those of the Catalina
John

Nice to have met you as well John

The wind on Sunday was a pain generally. The first two F 16/Mustang shots were of them entering from the rear of Beachy Head so I suppose I was shooting directly in to the wind.

The third shot I was shooting almost directly downwind. However as they came closer and more in front the wind became a problem and I lost them temporarily. At the closest point the aircraft started diverging from each other anyway. Any pictures I took after the one I posted were not sharp for one reason or another (wind/diverging aircraft etc) apart from the rear end shot.

The Catalina was okay and I will post one of them later from the Sunday. However, due to the wind two or three of the images had the aircraft tails chopped due to wind. My sunnier picture is from Saturday.

Thanks

Martin

Lovely shots Martin, first F-16 shot and twister pair are my favourites.

Stunning as always Martin.

Nice to have met you on Sunday. How did you keep still enough to get decent pictures in that wind. I’ve got similar pix on the Mustang and F16 (i.e. same pix but fuzzy!)
Looking forward to those of the Catalina
John