Thanks for sharing these shots, it’s very nice to see some of the less common types, especially the Tunnan, Lansen and Draken, I didn’t realize there were any of these types still flying.

Richard.

Magnificent, Glenn, best photos I’ve seen from the show, even the ground-to-air shots are fantastic!

Richard.

This reminds me of the other thread floating around saying how bad media reporting is. On NBC news last night in the USA they said that the helicopter had crashed into the ocean, obviously not realizing that this is an amphibious helicopter. The news article you quoted says that it “tipped over”, but actually it’s pretty clear from the footage that he was trying to take off from the water, but pushed it too far forward and the main rotor hit the water because of it.

And this has exactly what to do with photographing aircraft?

If you want to ask a question like this, put it in the “general discussion” forum and don’t waste people’s time here.

Richard.

Here are some basic photography tips:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Photography/PointAndShoot/index.html

and some tips specifically about photographing moving aircraft:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Photography/Airshows/index.html

I hope they’re helpful.

Richard.

Just as a mildly interesting sideline to this topic, they wanted to use one of my P-51 photos as a backdrop for the Tom Cruise TV segment, but they needed to have a response within an hour – since they were in New York and I was travelling in a far flung region of the Philippines it just wasn’t going to happen that quickly! I probably received their email a good 12 hours after they sent it.

It’s a shame, I probably could have wrung a reasonable amount of cash out of them, especially if they were pressed for time! :dev2:

Richard.