Good spot on the time that pics was take as I was on the 1pm tri-motor flight which returned about 1:15. Pic taken on base leg before turning finals.

It is was easy to get to the other side of the airfield – terminal / basler fbo (not the dc3 facility that is elsewhere) Take the shuttle bus from warbird area and that will take you all the way round the end of 9/27 and along the other FBO’s etc and terminal. Bus goes outside airfield and stops at terminal allowing the aircraft parked on the area past the terminal to be seen. You will not be allowed to walk airside in front of terminal but just get back on bus and get off once past terminal. Long walk back though 🙂 Found all the people very welcoming in terms of being invited into hangars for pics etc.
Not sure which day I will do that side but it is best to do before flying display in case there is something good & before it gets too hot. Try and get a copy of the daily paper which will give all the flying display particpants.

A hat + sun screen will also be essential items if it is as hot as last year! Also take a small plastic bottle for carrying your own supply of water – there are pleanty of places to fill up. There will be loads of places to buy food / drink but these tend to be concentrated in the main show area and you will find yourself away from these if you want to see / photograph aircraft in the distant parking areas.

another way to check for dust spots is the following :

a) create a duplicate layer of image and select it (background copy)
b) equalise this layer – this will show dust spots you may not know you had
c) select background layer but keep equalised version ‘on top’
d) use healing brush to remove spots – this will remove them from original layer
e) turn off / on equalised layer to check you have got all the spots
f) delete background copy NB – make sure you have this layer selected.

Very easy to do and will show up the faintest of spots.

look on http://www.seatguru.com for internal layouts – might give you an idea of which seats to ask for.

Nice pics – that Il76 was RA76950 and having seen it in Vienna last Friday apparently bringing back an A330 engine that had ‘lunched’ itself in China somewhere (Shangha maybe)