A great day out, first proper outing with the new camera. First section of photos, the static display:
Typhoon Line-up
A tanker that makes Lindy look small!
Thunderbirds’ support Globey
2 Static Vulcans!
the legendary 607
Nimrod R1
Farewell Goose
JP’s
Tiger Tail
More shortly
By: Blue_2 - 14th July 2011 at 09:42
Cheers Cometguy! I have to agree re the Reds v. Thunderbirds. After the first few passes the Thunderbirds display was all a bit samey really.
By: cometguymk1 - 11th July 2011 at 15:57
Some good shots 🙂 Spent the weekend working on the pleasure flying helicopters so didn’t get to see much of the display. saw the American Thunderbirds and the reds though and thought the reds were far better. 🙂
By: Blue_2 - 11th July 2011 at 08:45
Blue, mu pleasure.. I hope to post some pics tonight. Was @ brunty on Sunday, saw you guys working on the victor. I was wearingng ablue topgun shirt and had a white camera. Was nice to see the bird upclose. You guys were quite busy. Need to come back for the Lightnings so i’ll be back next year i hope.
Wrong Victor I’m afraid TG, I’m with the one at Elvington! Come see us sometime.
Nice to hear Tina’s geting some attention though.
Cheers for the comments all! 🙂
By: mike currill - 9th July 2011 at 12:37
I think the Bronco must be one of the noisiest turboprops I’ve ever come across. It may be agile but there is no denying it is noisy too.
This years scheme for the Tucano makes me think of the squadron colour schemes from the 1930’s.
By: benyboy - 9th July 2011 at 11:40
Blue has a new toy 🙂
Vulcan and Hunter shots for me 🙂
By: Al - 9th July 2011 at 09:48
Looks like a fantastic day out!
By: mike currill - 9th July 2011 at 08:28
I once heard an American gent say to his pal that he didnt understand how European display teams managed to wring so much performance out of trainers with their lower power.
By: Topgun1984 - 6th July 2011 at 11:20
They are based at Kortrijk in Belgium. More info can be found here on the bird.
http://www.broncodemoteam.com/
Cheers,
TG1984
By: Sky High - 6th July 2011 at 09:36
I agree – I wonder why not. Where is it based?
By: 92fis - 5th July 2011 at 21:38
Nice to see the Bronco in action, just a shame it doesn’t appear more often.
By: Topgun1984 - 5th July 2011 at 19:45
Blue, mu pleasure.. I hope to post some pics tonight. Was @ brunty on Sunday, saw you guys working on the victor. I was wearingng ablue topgun shirt and had a white camera. Was nice to see the bird upclose. You guys were quite busy. Need to come back for the Lightnings so i’ll be back next year i hope.
By: Blue_2 - 5th July 2011 at 10:35
Cheers Anna.
I’ve been having a bit of a rework of some of the, er, bluer shots.
Not much you can do when the sky was either very blue or very grey!
By: Flygirl - 5th July 2011 at 08:49
Nice shots.
By: Blue_2 - 5th July 2011 at 07:55
SH, Ben cheers. Yep it was a good day, really enjoyable show and a good variety in the flying display. Vulcan, Team Viper and the WWII heavies were the highlights for me.
TG cheers for the hints and tips. I was on auto for a couple of them, mostly TV and AV on advice of a photographer friend.
I’ve had a bit of a play with them in photoshop, mostly to level up the slopey ground shots! Struggled a bit with the sky, the excessive blueness is probably down to my ham-fisted editing on a less than brilliant laptop, but I’ll get the hang of it. In fairness, the sky was either brilliant blue, hazy white, or rather black at various times during the day.
And yes it was a great day, roll on next year! 😀
By: Topgun1984 - 5th July 2011 at 06:47
Hey Blue_2,
You took alot of pics haha… goodstuff… Not bad for a first outing with the new stuff right?? Only a few remarks (hope you don’t mind me saying but they will improve your picture taking)
what picture mode were you on? Auto? or P? cause you seem to have suddenly freezing props. Use Tv for instance … Get like 1/320 for Props, 1/400-500 for Turboprops and 1/800-1250 for fast Jets… This wil give the Prop aircraft alot of motion. and the faster shutterspeed will keep the Turboprops and Jets sharper… Don’t hesitate to boost up your iso for the faster shutterspeeds so you can keep you aperature a bit squeezed..
Do some minor editing, because some pictures are quite a bit blueish. You can even get more out of your picture if you shoot in RAW mode… only downside thing is that this eats memorycards haha…
But these are a good summary of the airshow and i see you had a nice time, which was the most important thing… right?
By: Sky High - 4th July 2011 at 19:57
Well done, Blue – great stuff.:)That Belgian F16 is pretty near the top of my favourite singleton displays.
By: benyboy - 4th July 2011 at 19:46
Not bad 🙂
By: Blue_2 - 4th July 2011 at 17:01
Bronco and others
Home team AWACS
Nimrod replacement Rivet Joint (boo!) flew a disappointingly high flyby
Grob
The King Air impressed
Really not sure about this year’s Tucano display scheme
They jumped from a perfectly good aeroplane…
The Bronco was a first for me. And I was VERY impressed, hope I get to see this nimble little machine again soon
Hope I haven’t bored you all…
By: Blue_2 - 4th July 2011 at 16:54
Viper and Vampires
Team Viper first, a great display from a 5 Hunter outfit
My Second favourite Hunter after Miss D
The Norwegians brought 2 Vampires to play. Nice to see a single seater for a change!
Next (and last you’ll be glad to hear!) the best of the rest
By: Blue_2 - 4th July 2011 at 16:49
Fast Jets
Hawk
Very nice display by the Belgian F16
Next, Vampires and Viper…
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