Irene McC
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- CPT, South Africa
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"Aviation Photo Thread" (Planes, Helos, Balloons, etc)...
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Irene McC
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- Location
- CPT, South Africa
C-130 Hercules and an Oryx overhead, AFT Swartkop 2010 Nikon D3
guzziknight
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Near the end of our visit to the LA area, we found this excellent aviation museum. The Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA. Most of the aircraft here still fly, in fact we saw a couple take off going to an air show for this weekend.
We got a tour by a docent who was a pilot, served in WWII and Korea, and was a doctor. I have never met someone with so much historical aviation knowledge.
This is Tom Cruise’s P51 that he flew in Top Gun Maverick.
We got a tour by a docent who was a pilot, served in WWII and Korea, and was a doctor. I have never met someone with so much historical aviation knowledge.
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This is Tom Cruise’s P51 that he flew in Top Gun Maverick.
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- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Excellent photography, Yaniv. Well done, mate.
guzziknight
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Thanks so much John!!
Nice series. Beautiful birds captured well.
It's a treat when you can find a docent who's been there done that, they're becoming a bit rare these days.
Birds flying out might have been heading to Edwards AFB - IIRC they're having their first airshow in something like 15 years this weekend.
guzziknight
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Thanks. I don’t think they were heading to Edwards. He said they were heading to the Santa Barbara area, but I can’t remember exactly where.
- Location
- North of Denmark
Irene McC
Legend
- Location
- CPT, South Africa
These photos are from 2013 with the late Johan Steyn at Swellengrebel fly-in.
I've just heard the sad news that this 45 year old Piper Cherokee belonging to Worcester Flying School overshot the runway
and ended up burning out completely. Student and instructor both escaped without serious injury.
I've just heard the sad news that this 45 year old Piper Cherokee belonging to Worcester Flying School overshot the runway
and ended up burning out completely. Student and instructor both escaped without serious injury.
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- Location
- Vancouver BC
- Name
- Graham
I hope he follows the "8 hours bottle-to-throttle" rule!
Irene McC
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- Location
- CPT, South Africa
Wow.I hope he follows the "8 hours bottle-to-throttle" rule!
@Carbonman you have no idea what a nerve you touched there. That was always the phrase we kept bandying about, since he'd be far gone rolling drunk on the Saturday evening of each fly-in. Then red-eyed on Sunday morning I'd see him pre-flighting the aircraft and I always said a little prayer that he'd be alright.
He swore he stuck to the bottle to throttle thing... I wasn't so sure.
He met his end in a road accident a few years ago but I don't know anything about the circumstances
- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
Depending on the degree of intoxication, it can take a lot longer than 8 hours for BAC to drop below even 0.08%. Also different for males and females, also different for some sub-races of homo sapiens, some of whom take far longer for their liver to process the alcohol out of our blood stream.I hope he follows the "8 hours bottle-to-throttle" rule!
It's a pretty complicated topic ...
Yup. Big boy rules were in effect when I was doing the FE thing, you were expected to know your personal limits and adjust accordingly. I witnessed a few people over the years receive the disciplinary hammer for showing up unfit to fly or showing up looking and smelling unfit to fly. Pax kinda flipped if they saw a crewmember who looked and smelled like a brewery, and it would be reported to higher headquarters upon landing and come rolling downhill with some heat.
About to zoom zoom...
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- Location
- Boston Burbs
- Name
- David
Cool. More modern version of the Super Guppy.
- Location
- Salish Sea
Paine is a long way from Boston
Well I've never seen that before.
Been slowly going through the airshow folder from last November. Processed some additional raw files, and reprocessing some images that have slight brightening halos I didn't see before getting the new monitor. Will be posting mostly the newer but similar shots.
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