Variable yield: They are certainly predetermined/fixed. I’m a little hazy if they could be changed in flight. (Aircraft delivered). I think they would be changed to suit the target. (Using the lowest yield possible.) Being quite a pain to move around, you would have more flexibility in your stockpile. I guess USA/NATO predicted they would have to use nuclear weapons on their own turf to stop a USSR/WAPA attack, and was again interested in the smallest possible weapon.

Don’t know about the Boeing gun. The muzzle looks quite ordinary!

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Monopods is much favoured among sportsphotographers, but I guess they work in a “flatter” plane. Freehand panning is my favoured technique. Go for the faster film. And don’t be afraid to do some workout, so you can “clamp” the camera and the long tubes.

The problem with tripods (at airshows) is that you need a ridiculously big stepladder! 😉

Best regards atc pal

How about a Tamron 200 – 400? Very light, and cheap (- ish).

Then stumbled into some interesting comments about birdphotography:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~eijsel/fototips.htm

best regards atc pal

Agree with you both.
But 100 years. Not bad going!
Hopefully we get to see some of his old movies. (And not just hear a few of his famous “oneliners”)

“They don’t make my bloodtype anymore”

Sad – yes. But good to remember that he had such a rich life.

Yep! “Movie Mistakes” mentions the F/A-18’s as well 😀

best regards atc pal

Bruce Willis films

“Die Hard” (1) was/is a favourite of mine.

But “Die Hard 2” is one of the worst I´ve seen. Really makes me angry with all the stupid mistakes about flying and ATC. 😡

http://www.moviemistakes.com has got a – short – list of 45 assorted errors in that movie.

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P.S. One good quote from the approach supervisor:
” Let’s rack ’em, pack ’em and stack ’em!”

Whalebone

I have often wished though that I had the bottle to cruise sedately down the local High Street in the family car with some chums clad in full evening dress blasting out some Mahler or the 1812 at 130db, just for the hoot of it !!

😀 I salute You! 😀

Monty Pythons Flying Circus comes to mind.

Love to see it happen :p

best regards
atc pal

The music I hate the most is the one blaring at air shows. Muzak in supermarkets etc. OK. Very, very seldom it actually works in concert (sorry) with the airshow acts.

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atc pal