Enough of all these museum shots, let’s have more operational Gnat photos.

And it would appear to be down to us older f*rts to supply them. First one taken by my Dad at a very murky Acklington Battle of Britain show in 1967, remainder mainly at Finningley in the 1970s.

Row restrictions are for aircraft weight and balance considerations (not take off performance). With a full load, and a standard baggage loading plan, the weight will be evenly distributed and the aircraft will be in trim. With significantly less than a full load, rows at the front and back of the cabin are restricted to ensure that the passenger weight is concentrated more towards the centre of gravity of the aircraft.

I seem to remember being told that the spars were sawn through when she was moved from Colerne to Cosford, so she has been ground-bound for many years.

Lovely stuff, weekend rush to PMA or something?

Midweek rush to the Canaries actually….once in Moroccan airspace, there are few short cuts to be had, so everyone is routing on airway centrelines….and with modern RNAV equipped machines everyone IS precisely on the centrelines, making for good photo opportunities.

And yes Ren, last lot taken on the 300D. Much light up there, so I was using ISO100 & 1/320 sec (with a 300mm zoom), giving around f8….I suspect a faster ISO, faster shutter speed and smaller aperture would all contribute to crisper pics…still learning.

Similar question asked on pprune recently http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=158455

That said, I think I shall take my new toys away with me tomorrow and see how we go.

Took my new toy to work and captured these….still bl**dy difficult getting those opposite direction shots!

By this time i was so bored, the film was ….

But just remember that the crew turn round and operate back to the UK…and no inflight movie!!

By “big flight deck” do you mean an ERJ145?

757, and occasionally 767. I lie (of course), in that they are very roomy flightdecks, but most of the convenient stowages are taken….so the pocket compact sitting on top of the flight bag is perfect.

As for the pics themselves, I do have the distinct advantage of sitting in shirt sleeves in air-conditioned comfort, rather than freezing my gonads in the UK!

Most difficult shots are the opposite direction ones….closing speed is of the order of 1000mph, for every half decent one there must be five failures.