Very nice….but should have ordered up some nice blue sky with puffy white clouds!:D

Good to see her flying

Shot by chase plane or from the ground?

She was also at RAF Leeming–12-07-2004 according to this web blogger/plane spotter

http://www.crouze.com/spotting/log.php?mindate=20040708a&maxdate=20040718z&location=

A B-17 won’t fit in my back yard. Do they have any new or used P-51’s? Spitfires Perhaps?! A Corsair would fit the ticket, that way I could fold the wings and keep it in my garage!:D 😀

Phantom II, like I said back in post 166, I just saw one of the “Starfighters” team in action. see pic

They did NOT do a lot of aerobatics, mostly low fast passes, some knife edge flyby’s for the crowd. Loud, with that distinctive howl/growl, very blue paint. My first good look at one in a good while. They fly over once in a while, but by the time I run outside with my telephoto, they are usually over the horizon. They have a FAST approach speed to the airport 7 miles North!

Sounds like fun! I hope they make a go of it.

I read about an African company doing the same sort of thing at Victoria Falls with DC3 and Convair 440s and trains, Practicly modern!!

I have been running my Canon 10D for two years now with one of my favorite airshow lenses being my 75-300 ( 1:4-5.6). Works pretty well, but no stabilization and it had better be nice and sunny!

If you can use your old SLR lenses, an expensive investment, remember that the digital bumps the focal length by a factor of something like 1.6. So your OK old zoom lens takes on a nice increase in zoom factor!

In lookin at used gear, try to find out how many times the shutter has fired! Someone who shoots a lot can burn through the shutter mechanism in a couple years and then dump it on EBay to avoid the expensive repair! Also, watch for lost pixels on the CCD. At two years old, I have 3 that have failed on my Canon….so….buyer beware.

I have run across Spitfires used as target tugs….no joy on the Hotspur towing yet. I’ll keep looking