Welcome to the forum. Don’t let your lack of knowlegde stop you from participating, I know it hasn’t stopped me! Participation is what makes it work.

There are a few ladies that are on the forum from time to time, though greatly out numbered.

Bronco in France? Did a little googleing and this is what popped, so there is at least one airworthy in-country.

“Jean-Loup Cardey (jlcardey@club-internet.fr)
Jean-Loup Cardey is one of the pilots of the only Bronco in flying condition in France, based at Montélimar with “Amicale des Avions Anciens de la Drôme”.

Hmmmm, looks like it was in Hucknall in “04….see attached link

http://www.avom.org.uk/huck.htm

Slap 3 bazooka mock-ups under each wing, call her a “Panzer Buster” complete with pyrotechnics and make it a hit at the show! Or you can “dogfight” a Storch. With enough wind across the airfield you could fly backwards too. My uncle flew one in North Africa, he caught the plane bug from it and never did stop flying!

“Let’s see, that was lefty loosy, righty tighty??”

Very nice profiles. Love the weathering and coloration.

Might want to take a second look at the landing gear leg. Looks a bit thin in diameter and most photos I have seen, the exposed hydraulic slip area(the shiny part) is a bit lower on the leg, behind the wheel, and a little triangular linkage bit that attaches just above that joint is missing.

Big fires around mountains create VERY dangerous winds. Very unpredictable. Indeed great flying to get out of a very HOT spot.

I’m fighting this with my own camera so I will take a stab at it. The Camera, depending on just which “AUTO” setting it is on is just doing its best to make sure you are not getting a blurry shot. As the light level drops, either the shutter speed has to drop, thus treatening to get motion blur from either the camera moving or the subject moving, or it has to bump up the “ISO” or the sensitivity of the CCD-light collector thingie and opening up the aperture to let more light in.

The camera’s settings got you your shots, granted a bit grainy. If you choose to go with manual settings, and I have no idea of what your camera allows, but if you can set your shutter speed to the slowest you can hold it to while tracking the A/C and let the camera adjust the other settings on the fly, you may get better shots with less grain, or you may get blurred shots. Experiment with it, play with it. find out your best settings for conditions. Shoot moving cars in low light, it’s good practice and you are not missing those rare A/C shots!

Don’t know if any of this helps, but in case of last resort, read the instruction book:D

There was a wargame done at one of the Military Academies that reran Pearl Harbor giving the fleet an hours warning, as if the Japanese Embasy had delivered the declaration on time. Giving the fact that the USN carriers out of range, the mostly obsolete USN fleet steaming out would have led to 3-4 times the casualties to the USN. The air assets of Pearl would also have been wiped out with much higher loss of pilots and crew. I will look for that study and see if I can find a link.