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September 12, 2003 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Local US airshow pictures #2081820

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My favorite of the bunch….

September 12, 2003 at 4:29 pm in reply to: Local US airshow pictures #2081827

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Number 3

September 12, 2003 at 4:29 pm in reply to: Local US airshow pictures #2081832

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September 12, 2003 at 4:28 pm in reply to: Local US airshow pictures #2081834

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Now the B-17

September 12, 2003 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Local US airshow pictures #2081836

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Ju52….

September 11, 2003 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Airliners and UFOs don't mix #665615

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Long duty day = seeing things

I’ve seen some military flights that don’t show up on our equipment or ATC’s (at least not any sector that we’d talk to). They’ll be buzzing along at 50,000+ feet and you can see them for miles as the air is so thin at altitude. Flying along the southern Canadian border I watched one aircraft to our north pass us like we were standing still. No idea what it was but he was moving.

September 11, 2003 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Your local airport- most unusual visitor #665624

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We occasionally get a private 747SP that is owned by some Prince that flies into CLE to come to the hospital here. I have yet to get a picture of it. I did once try to walk up to the closest fence to get a better look but was chased away by the police. I WAS on the other side of the fence which was a public area. Oh well, I don’t argue with people with guns.

September 11, 2003 at 1:18 pm in reply to: General Discussion #396161

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Facts? You can prove anything with facts. – Homer

September 11, 2003 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Which Simpsons charecter are you? #1974926

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Facts? You can prove anything with facts. – Homer

September 11, 2003 at 1:14 pm in reply to: We Remember 9/11 #665754

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September 8, 2003 at 1:14 am in reply to: JU-52 "experience" #2084015

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This topic was discussed in a similar thread but I can’t seem to find it so I’ll tack it onto this one. We had a Ju-52 at the local airshow here today and I thought to ask about the mirrors on the engines. It turns out that they are used for nothing else than to sink the center engine prop. The image reflected to the pilots shows the center engine’s prop arc through the right/left engines prop arc. If the center engine is out of sink with the particular engine whose mirror you’re looking at the strobing propellor image will appear to wander clockwise or counterclockwise depending on whether it’s spinning faster or slower. The pilot then adjusts the engine RPM until the strobing prop image appears to stand still. At that point the engines are “in sink” or spinning at the same RPM.

Man those Germans were smart. 🙂

September 8, 2003 at 12:55 am in reply to: Some props #671435

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Originally posted by Roger S
Beech 1900. Looks as itf there is something wrong with the windows. are they for real, or are they stickered? BW Roger

They look like the normal BE-1900D windows. They are elongated and have dark tint as there is no window shade.

Great collection of pictures. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

September 6, 2003 at 3:13 am in reply to: More pictures #672963

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Looking at the cockpit picture again I wish I had evened out the brightness on all the CRT tubes and LCD screens. The FMS screens are good but a couple of the other screens are too bright and started to “burn” the image in the picture. Learn something every time. 🙂

September 6, 2003 at 3:11 am in reply to: More pictures #672970

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Originally posted by tenthije
How did you do the last one, my night time pics always end up blurred. Did you use a tripod and how long was your exposure time?

My tripod for the cockpit picture was my knee. 🙂 The air was perfectly smooth in the climb that night which allowed for the crisp picture. As you know, even the slightest bump or vibration blurs the picture.

You can see in the picture out the window that even with minimal ground movement at altitude that I got tons of blur. Too bad its so hard to capture because the view looks great.

I’m still a complete novice to photography, especially digital photography so I’m doing a lot of experimenting to figure out what settings to use when. For the night pictures I left the ISO on AUTO, flash OFF, I tried using the S-mode (which I think is Shutter priority) and set the speed to something around 1/50 and fine tuned it using the Exposure compensation (around +1.0). The shutter speed could very well be different than 1/50 as I took about 5 different pictures with different settings.

If I get an opportunity to take another picture in conditions like this I’ll make sure pay closer attention to the settings for future reference.

Does anyone have any words of advice to use when shooting at night like that?

September 6, 2003 at 2:55 am in reply to: More pictures #672974

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Originally posted by Woundsinger
Wow..Excellent quality photos….
Do you post on A.net etc…

I submitted some scans of negatives to a.net about a year ago but got all of them rejected. This is my first go at a digital camera which seems to provide a hugh improvement for digital picture quality over the negative scans. Once I get a better hang of the whole medium I’ll probably try and submit some again.

I actually much prefer posting them here where the subject is of more interest than the “quality” of the picture. It’s about the planes, not necessarily the pictures. 🙂

Thanks for the kudos.
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