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December 10, 2005 at 1:13 am in reply to: Plane struck by lightning! #607862

FlyingKiwi
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Wow, amazing! 😮

Richard.

December 8, 2005 at 1:49 am in reply to: Chinook Visit #476638

FlyingKiwi
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Great stuff, that blue sky and fluffy clouds really do something for the photo!

Richard.

November 19, 2005 at 1:30 am in reply to: Interesting Airliners Pic. #1403861

FlyingKiwi
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wow that massed fly-by is really something (sorry “sumtin”)
Roger Smith.

Don’t you mean “summit”? 😉

Richard.

November 18, 2005 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Interesting Airliners Pic. #1404052

FlyingKiwi
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Here’s Chuck Yeager on the following weekend, flying P-51D Val Halla in formation with an F-16:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Edwards2005/Highlights/index.html#P51F16a

Richard.

November 9, 2005 at 8:42 pm in reply to: Argosy #1416047

FlyingKiwi
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There’s a clickable shot of the Yankee Air Museum Argosy with its nose door open here:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/Museums/index.html#YankeeAirMuseum

The UFO Argosy that I mention there is sitting in very nice condition in Marlborough, New Zealand, I have photos of it but none on the website.

Richard.

November 8, 2005 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Arizona Skyfest 2005 #478494

FlyingKiwi
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Spooky flyoff

Actually, that’s the C-47 Skytrain that was at Prescott, not the AC-47 Spooky that was also at the show.

Richard.

October 24, 2005 at 11:44 pm in reply to: Fence Check Update #479710

FlyingKiwi
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Yeah, Key Publishing, but better keep it quiet at the moment.

And that’s Flying Kiwi Global Megacorp, if you don’t mind.

Richard.

October 24, 2005 at 11:38 pm in reply to: Fence Check Update #479895

FlyingKiwi
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Roger,

Nice stuff! Many really magnificent photos there, from that first shoulder patch to the Tomcat vapor to Tyson’s amazing F-16 sunset shot, showing us why he can make a living at this stuff and we can’t (though he does need to check for the dust spots on that one)!

Richard.

September 22, 2005 at 12:06 am in reply to: Archangel Airshow – Tanagra #483909

FlyingKiwi
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Tony,

I love the angle on that Eurofighter!

Richard.

September 15, 2005 at 5:10 am in reply to: Russian Air Force Museum at Monino #1391210

FlyingKiwi
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A few old photo’s, which I took of Mil helicopters in 1966 at Schiphol and 1967 at the Paris Show. They include the MI-10 and MI-6 at Schiphol and the Mil-10K and Mil-6 together at the Paris Airshow.

Jur,

Thanks for sharing those with us!

Richard.

September 14, 2005 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Russian Air Force Museum at Monino #1392370

FlyingKiwi
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Hi Richard,

Excellent webpages about Monino – always glad to see someone else enjoying the place !!!!

I have been there every year since 1993 – and the place just gets better & better.

As you say, they now have a small chain-link fence around the grass areaa – but the staff don’t mind you going over the fence to take photos – although I do wonder how long that will last.

I was also there in August – http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/visits2-pages/mos2005_day06.html

Can I make a couple of observations regarding your text/descriptions ??

The large twin-rotor helicopter at the entrance is Mil V-12 – NOT Mi-12. It never entered service, so was never given the military designation Mi-12 – it was just the internal Mil designation of V (for Vertolyet (Helicopter)) -12.

The helicopter behind the Yak-24 is a Piasecki H-21 – it was a gift to the Soviets by Richard Nixon – it was not sold to them. The Soviets did not know what to do with it – so they stuck it in the museum out of the way !

Finally, the ‘big brother’ of the Antonov An-124 is the six-jet An-225 ‘Mriya’ (NATO Condor) – e.g. 225 NOT 224.

I hope you don’t mind the above – I am trying to help, not criticise.

An excellent site – congratulations.

Ken

PS – Had they had the fire at Monino when you went ??

Ken,

Thanks for the information, I’m always happy to receive corrections.

Actually I’d already enjoyed reading your website’s account of Monino, I must have turned it up on a Google search. I’d seen your comment there about Nixon giving the H-21 to the Russians, but I wasn’t able to verify it – do you happen to know of a reputable website that explains the situation? Some other place said that it had been sold during the 1950s, before Boeing bought Vertol, which is why it just says “Vertol” on the side rather than “Boeing Vertol”; so I thought that a 1950s date precluded Nixon presenting it.

Richard.

September 10, 2005 at 1:33 am in reply to: Two new SLR's from Canon #466200

FlyingKiwi
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I basically got told that if i dont have file sizes that are 35MB or upwards i can forget about selling any of my prints! (i have a lot of non av work).

So yeah digital is great if you can affords the £20K digital backs or the Pro digital SLRS. Other wise Medium format and 35mm still rock the roost.

Has national geographic started to accept digital yet? i think they want 35MB’s too.

Yes, National Geographic did a big aviation oriented issue, perhaps it was in 2003, the one with the SR-71 on the cover, and every aviation photo in that issue was done with a 6 megapixel Nikon.

I know several full-time professional aviation photographers doing calendars and lots of other publishing using 6 megapixel digital cameras.

The Canon 1Ds Mk II has a 16 2/3 megapixel sensor because with 8 bits for each pixel that results in a 50 megapixel file, which I believe is industry standard in some fields. However, as I say a great many photos are being published in large sizes from 6 megapixel cameras.

I don’t know of anyone who uses medium format for aviation photography, it’s too bulky. Of course, for landscape and architecture photography it might still rule the roost, but this is an aviation forum so I assume we’re discussing aviation photography.

Richard.

September 8, 2005 at 8:53 pm in reply to: MAKS 2005 photos, at last #486540

FlyingKiwi
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Hey Richard,
nice photos!
I was also at the MAKS.

Tu-22M3 & Tu-95C Bear

cheers Andy

Andy,

It was a real disappointment not to see the Bear and Tu-22 flying during the weekend. I don’t even remember the Bear being in the static section, was it?

Richard.

August 12, 2005 at 9:30 pm in reply to: FW-190 "To Fire first…. " #1346257

FlyingKiwi
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Does anyone know the real translated motto of the upgunned FW-190s with extra gunpods of JG-11 . A book “Defenders of the Reich” translates it as “He who fires first lives longer” but after babelfishing the phrase, it doesn’t match the german text for it Also was Oberlieutenant Erich Hondt stupid enough to fly this 6-gunned plane into a firefight with a pair of P-47s?

If you provide the German text then the German speakers among us might be able to translate it.

Richard.

August 12, 2005 at 9:06 pm in reply to: Seahawk & Others – Culdrose #493523

FlyingKiwi
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Very nice, especially the Sea Fury and Sea Hawk!

Richard.
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