Ahh. Just check my photos and there was blue sky and sunshine. Some of the time 😀

Brian

What was the reason for the flypast?……….not that you ever need a reason

I’d of thought the egg box Spitfire and mention of ‘Help for Heroes’ in DCWs thread would have been a clue. 😀

Brian

Anyone know when this beauty should be arriving

Who said it’s coming?

Brian

28Feb13

An interesting hour and a bit today as the Strikemaster in AirSpace was dropped, not literally, from the rafters following a safety inspection and a possible problem identified with a support bracket. I was expecting it to be lowered level but it see-sawed it’s way down as the tail was lowered a bit then the nose was lowered a bit etc,etc.

Tekkie Bit: Due to the internal lighting and aircraft movement I used the ‘High ISO Noise Reduction’ function at 800 and 1600 for a decent shutter speed, hand held – a tripod would have been better, and manual settings.
Brian

😀

Brian

Remember when Lightnings used to do that at the start of air shows in the 60’s when I was at RAF Acklington. Straight down the runway low and rather fast, pull up, re-heat and then you heard it. 😀

Brian

Still got the Long Johns on :). I was only using my Sony 70-300mm G SSM lens for the Spitfire shots but I’m trying out the ‘Tele-Zoom Continuous Advance Priority AE’ mode at the moment. It’s a rapid fire mode, for action shots, but takes an 8MP crop (equivalent magnification of 1.4x) of the centre of the 16MP sensor so at 300mm the lens has an equivalent reach of 620mm it says in the exif info.

Brian