Plane Photography

[delicate silo]

ik

just need to move to the UK

lol

mach loop

im gonna explode I just wanna see fast jet

been too long

[sage cape]

r2508 > Mach loop

[glass charm]

Clarendon Station 🗣️ 🔥

(getting arrested speedrun)

[sage cape]

Real ones get off at East Richmond

[delicate silo]

Everything we have here is in like cali

[uneven fog]

Almost got a free haircut spotting today

That’s at 28mm

For reference that’s what a regular approach looks like

[crisp jacinth]

@wary wren are you from around Cleveland?

[wary wren]

Used to be

[crisp jacinth]

Oh cool I used to live in Cleveland as well @wary wren

[wary wren]

Got to KCLE much?

[delicate silo]

unsure of the crop

[flint smelt]

Crops a lil weird (placement wise) but other than that it’s a good shot.

[uneven fog]

It’s 16:9 it’s fs weird

Coming from a former 16:9 doer

[flint smelt]

I would probably use 3:2

Thats just my preference tho

[delicate silo]

idk kinda just winged it

I dont love the crop

[uneven fog]

What I use 90% of the time

[uneven fog]

https://youtube.com/shorts/NU_BEZQtJeQ?si=1agGe8usaNHe7ZTH

If I was there today while that guy was landing I would be dead right now

That’s literally exactly where I was standing

[flint smelt]

Too early ayy?

Looks like he smashed into the snow right before the ice.

[uneven fog]

Yea

Ur not even allowed to land that short

There’s a bandstand on that side of the runway

Ur supposed to land past it

[delicate silo]

anyone have any radio recommendations for spotting?

[delicate silo]

...

why are they even landing there

looks like an ice runway lol

[delicate silo]

with the prop probably lo l

[uneven fog]

BC125AT is what I have

Pretty sure a lot of ppl use that one

[uneven fog]

It is

[delicate silo]

why are people landing there

[uneven fog]

Bc it’s a cool thing to say you did

Only FAA approved one in the lower 48 states

[delicate silo]

was hoping to sit in an MOA and listen in on ANG didnt realize range isnt really 🌟 amazing 💫

[flint smelt]

Just buy a better antenna or whatever its called.

[delicate silo]

still not great range

[delicate silo]

I dont suppose getting a used one would hurt?

[flint smelt]

4 KC-135’s today and NOAA’s “GONZO”.

[uneven fog]

I’m not sure I bought mine new

[delicate silo]

All righ

[sage cape]

can’t even have fun anymore smh

[delicate silo]

Lol

[uneven fog]

I know of atleast 3 incidents there this year

1 aircraft totaled

[flint smelt]

Bomb threat..

[uneven fog]

Never exactly understood why fighters escort bomb threats

Fuck they gonna do if a bomb goes off onboard

[delicate silo]

Fr

Maybe they'll blow it up more..

[glass charm]

Just gives more chance for the fighter to blow up : /

[sage cape]

indicates the presence of the government. Even if the bomber knows there’s nothing they can do it will always be in the back of their mind. Also can be used to communicate with the pilot with hand signals

It’s mostly psychological though

[delicate silo]

they are all ready gonna die

so

unless the bomb is tiny

in which case theyd get arrested anyway

[sage cape]

not at all

[delicate silo]

hand signals part is smart ig

[sage cape]

often times terrorists in hostage situations don’t want to actually do anything, they just use the threat of it to get something

[delicate silo]

how does a fighter assist that

[sage cape]

A very common planejacking tactic is have a bomb, gain control of the plane, get them to land at an airport where there will be a bunch of cash waiting for them there and another jet that they will then fly to wherever they want

as far as I know it’s worked a couple of times

they normally fly to African countries that have agreed to take them in before hand

[sage cape]

as I said above

It does the same thing the bomb the hijacker has does

[delicate silo]

how does that even work out for them

[sage cape]

Scares the other side into thinking something might have

[delicate silo]

ah

[sage cape]

most of the time it doesn’t

[delicate silo]

didnt think about more than just terrorism oversight on my part

[sage cape]

yeh if it’s just straight terrorism then god be with the passengers

[delicate silo]

yep

[wary wren]

If they try to crash into anything important the fighter can shoot them down

[delicate silo]

true

few oversights on my point thanks for correcting me

didnt really think that through

[wary wren]

That and there’s a distinct psychological aspect to seeing a fighter jet outside your window

[sage cape]

@velvet nexus

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-funny-f35-fighter-jet-military-plane-devon-rex-gif-3140717714625487741

ig

[austere umbra]

2025 has been pretty good so far! 🤙

[uneven fog]

Gotta get those air2air kills somehow

[uneven fog]

Chat it’s not 2024

[austere umbra]

You know that's a very good point 😂

[flint smelt]

Still no C schedule yet, lol.

[delicate silo]

lol

[delicate silo]

lol

slacking

[flint smelt]

Fr, media team be on vacation or smh.

Not like they’re coming to hawaii or anything.

Still trynna see if I can go to Aviation Nation

[delicate silo]

fr

I got like 2 or 3 airshows but theyre all just the thunderbirds

like how many times do I need to se ethem

not to mention like half of the states around me are also getting them

so i could technically see them like 6 times

[uneven fog]

I’m gonna tweak bro I swear

[delicate silo]

theyll annouce it halfway through the airshow year lol

[uneven fog]

Wouldn’t be the first time

We’re in the month long window that they’ve released the last 2 years

So should be soon

[delicate silo]

fr?

[flint smelt]

All i need is to go to OshKosh and RIAT. Then my life will be complete

Still lucky you live in the mainland. We only get one airshow every two years.

[delicate silo]

Ah

[uneven fog]

In 21 or 22 I believe they released their first half in Feb

Which went to June

[delicate silo]

Lol

[uneven fog]

And then after the last show that was on the first half

They released the second half schedule

[delicate silo]

3 years since the russia Ukraine war

[delicate silo]

Crazy

[uneven fog]

I said that it would be over in like 6 months when it started

[delicate silo]

I think we all thought that

[uneven fog]

Don’t see many of these around any more

[delicate silo]

Looks like an aeroplane

[wary wren]

I think I’ve seen that one

Neat

[delicate silo]

Smokey fella

[flint smelt]

Mad dog

[brittle bridge]

yall what plane should I fly for discovery flight

[delicate silo]

uh

a cool one

sr22

idk

[uneven fog]

All priced the same?

[uneven fog]

Isn’t mad dog the md80

Oh he sent an md80

I saw a 727

[brittle bridge]

I chose c172 g1k

and no

they are different

Cirrus is way more pricey

[delicate silo]

funny guy

[delicate silo]

ah

[flint smelt]

I just watched the vid and saw lol.

I swear bro the news needs to stfu. They be making everyone worry about air travel.

I just saw a video of ABC news reporting on a southwest plane that did a go-around because a private jet was crossing the runway at the same time.

[brittle bridge]

Like $300 vs $550

🙏

[delicate silo]

FOR A DISCOVERY FLIGHT!?

[delicate silo]

YAH

[brittle bridge]

1hr of flight time, 30m of ground

[delicate silo]

thats a scam

[delicate silo]

find someone else

[brittle bridge]

it’s my aunt booking it

she’s picking what’s near her house/easiest to get to

[delicate silo]

theyre scammers

i think

never booked a flgith

only heard about prices

lol

ground instructor said it was like $120 or $170 I think

[brittle bridge]

no I looked at the registration of the c172 g1k and it flew multiple times this week already

Scottsdale to Scottsdale

[delicate silo]

I didnt mean like actual scammers

just a high price

lol

[brittle bridge]

lmao

[brittle bridge]

they have some very nice aircraft

it includes the rental cost, instructor cost, fuel, and taxes sooo

[delicate silo]

wonder how they got those 🧐

(i dont know enough about aircraft flight cost to comment on this

[uneven fog]

I pay 165/hr

and 65/hr for instructer

Except I fly shitboxes

[uneven fog]

I gotta say that was some crazy good work from SWA

[delicate silo]

good concept?

[delicate silo]

ah

two iamge type of idea

[flint smelt]

I like it

[delicate silo]

some generative fill

twofortuesday lol

[flint smelt]

I believe this wasnt the first time SWA had to do a go around cuz a priv plane was taxxing at the same time.

[uneven fog]

That one from lax

Or it wasn’t a go around

They were just departing

[uneven fog]

2x extender on the R7 with a 200-800 is the ultimate tikaboo peak lens

[sage cape]

ultimate heat haze lens

Wait no ur a northwest fella

never heard of heat haze have ya

go back to your dirty ice runway and mud hut

[glass charm]

Australia problems 😭

[delicate silo]

NOOOO

[delicate silo]

LOL

[delicate silo]

Nah

It exists here top 5 worst days

[delicate silo]

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[uneven fog]

It’s not dirty💔

some dude slid off of it cause it was very slick

[uneven fog]

💔

[sage cape]

Can’t spot here after 9am november-march pretty much

[glass charm]

Finally got around to editing lighting nightmare photos some didn't turn out too bad imo

augh the compression kinda sucks

[sage cape]

pretty decent

you should try P3 at sunset when theyre using 34

the sihouettes of rotations are epic

too bad its civvy

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[glass charm]

Hey ik that guy 💀 I was speaking to him yesterday

[glass charm]

😭

Damn

[flint smelt]

Hawaiian

Now this is some supreme luck

[delicate silo]

Real

[uneven fog]

Another day without the f35C schedule

[delicate silo]

just assume they arent gonna fly

[uneven fog]

Hope not

[delicate silo]

why do you want their list so badly

[uneven fog]

Bc Fort Lauderdale will be ass without another jet team

[sage cape]

I love Sean

He knows so fucking much about camera’s

[sage cape]

Fella Australia gets one airshow a year with two different fast jets

[delicate silo]

bro you get the raptor

and blues

and vapor

i don’t wanna hear it

[glass charm]

He's practically my camera catalogue

[uneven fog]

ok

That’s cause ur poor

[flint smelt]

💀

[sage cape]

Richer than Canada

[delicate silo]

We are 30t in debt

[flint smelt]

We are technically still richer than Australia even with our debt.. the U.S. has the world’s largest economy, with a GDP of over 27 trillion.

[delicate silo]

Ik

Lol

[flint smelt]

Yet we will never fully payback our national debt…

[delicate silo]

Fr

[uneven fog]

51st state you mean?

[flint smelt]

Which one is better B&W or Original?

[viscid elbow]

I like the B&W more

But is it just me or the black and white has like extra sharpness added in post?

Or is that just discord compression

[delicate silo]

b&w

[flint smelt]

Idk it’s a preset from Lightroom. But I think its Discord compression, it doesn’t look like that in my camera roll.

[delicate silo]

discord compression is baddd

[uneven fog]

Not a fan of the vignetting

@flint smelt when you do gradients do you just auto select subject to intersect

[flint smelt]

Yea why?

[flint smelt]

I just threw on a preset for the B&W, I just wanted to see how it looked.

[uneven fog]

Just wondering

I have a lot of trouble with it picking up the sky sometimes

Canopies and the space between landing gear and stuff like that

[flint smelt]

Ohh yea, I have trouble sometimes too. I barely use the sky option. I mainly use the linear gradient and subject options.

[delicate silo]

I find that subject detection is horrible

objects is better

[dusk spindle]

Literally the most average holloman ops back then 🤦‍♂️

[flint smelt]

Still yet being able to see 4 knight hawks flying together is amazing.. Even if this was 25 years ago when they were active.

[dusk spindle]

4? Try 25

[flint smelt]

all im saying is being able to see a knight hawk back then is an amazing opportunity.

And i know there were more than 4 F-117’s were based at Holloman AFB…

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

I can't get any closer

They parked in the wrong place lol

Devastating

[flint smelt]

303rd FS?

[delicate silo]

Idk

[flint smelt]

Ah

[delicate silo]

Red devils

I think

Theyre leaving

Let's gi

Go

Gotta run

Aaa

[flint smelt]

Ahh 107th FS

[delicate silo]

I just walked around until I found a decent viewing spot lol

Walked in a flight school and they asked if I wanted to join

[flint smelt]

Lol

[delicate silo]

And if I wanted a tou

Tour

I said yes..

It didn't get me anywhere though

[flint smelt]

😂

Aussies are back from Nellis

[delicate silo]

Ok to the end of the runway I go

[delicate silo]

Do they go through you

[flint smelt]

Ye, Hawaii’s like the hub for all pacific air forces. So when they go to the mainland (U.S.) they usually stop in Hawaii.

Theres a cobra ball sitting on the ramp rn

[delicate silo]

Uh oh

I might be on the wrong side of the runway

[uneven fog]

Portsmouth used to be the east coast stop for jet movements 💔

they’ve started pushing further and not stopping

Or will go to Bangor instead

[delicate silo]

The winds changed

Uh oh

[uneven fog]

The cennetenial scramble

[flint smelt]

I don’t think they’ll ever stop using Hawaii as a stopping point. At least not in the near future.

They enjoy it here, lol 😂

[delicate silo]

Ooo

They flew LOWE

Accidently left my car door open lol

While I was watching em

[flint smelt]

I have to stand on my car to get the fence out my way, lol

[uneven fog]

I’m scared to stand on my car roof

Shit would probably break

[flint smelt]

Reals

[delicate silo]

I was gonna lol

[flint smelt]

I just sit on the edge by the door, otherwise that shit will bend in if I stand in the middle, lol

[delicate silo]

Then someone let me in

[delicate silo]

Cut off at a bad time

Ok time to go home

3 hours later

Lol

[uneven fog]

3? Rookie numbers

[delicate silo]

Nah stated 8 one time

[flint smelt]

Is the eckholm squadron apart of sam eckholms channel?

[delicate silo]

For 4 f18s

[delicate silo]

Ye

[flint smelt]

Oh 👍

[delicate silo]

Didn't want to use mobile data twice

Good server

All right cya

I'll post pics later

[uneven fog]

I’ll get some custom plate built to put on my roof rack

anyone know how to lose 100ibs quick?

[flint smelt]

👍 I just have a surfboard rack, lol

[uneven fog]

I should get a truck just for spotting

[flint smelt]

Some people just use their sun roofs 🤷‍♂️

[uneven fog]

I could do that

I honestly very rarely have a need for elevated spotting

There’s a rock that you can stand on at the main spot of one of my locals

[flint smelt]

Lucky, lol. Mine just have those barriers you can stand on. But i cant balance for shit.

[uneven fog]

18-55 for spotting 💔

[flint smelt]

Start em young

[uneven fog]

Tried to step up into a snowbank the other day for that 727, put one foot in and sunk 2 feet in

Almost fell backwards as I was holding my camera with no strap

[flint smelt]

Lol

Camera straps = shit

I hate em.

[uneven fog]

Me too

I’ll throw em on if imma be on my feet for like over 30 mins with my camera out of my backpack

Like if I’m not getting in and out of my car

[flint smelt]

Ah, same. Me and the uncs just rock the tripod mounts.

That come with some lenses

Speaking of camera straps I need to invest in a better one, I’m rocking with the one that came with my camera.

[uneven fog]

Me too

[uneven fog]

Donate a 100-500 to a brother 🙏

[flint smelt]

I went broke after I bought a 100-500 💀

[delicate silo]

@flint smelt Eckholm squadron is a pretty chill dc only like 14 active people

[flint smelt]

👍 I was just checkin em out.

[delicate silo]

Wow

[uneven fog]

Crop tighter than my balls

But beautiful pan

[wary wren]

70-200 gets short here sometimes

[uneven fog]

What shutter?

[wary wren]

1/40

next time i'll bring the teleconverter, none of this needs f2.8

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

especially not with snow lol

[wary wren]

that'll be gone in a week, but yeah

once daylight savings swaps over i'll have an hour of good light after work

[uneven fog]

I was south of Boston today and didn’t see an inch of snow

[wary wren]

The rain that came through swept a lot of it away

We went from a foot on the ground to a few inches over this week

[uneven fog]

Ice runway closed for the season

773 landings

3 (?) incidents

4

[delicate silo]

Lol

Doesn't sound like a safe place to spot

[uneven fog]

Yea

Definitely have to be mindful of where you stand

If I was there a day later in the same spot I was the day before I’d be dead rn

[delicate silo]

How is it still allowed with that many accidents

That's a very high %

[grizzled spruce]

Land of the free yaaaa 🦅

[uneven fog]

Not really

You have that many operations going on there’s bound to be some stuff happening

For perspective

One was a bent gear strut due to wake from a departing heli while a guy was landing

One guy that landed super long and fast, tried to do a go around and went right off the end of the runway into the snow

Believe he got it airborne after

[delicate silo]

M

[uneven fog]

One guy that just shouldn’t have been there that smacked a snowbank

Probably totaled the plane

And then one guy flying in gusting 25 crosswind that got picked up and had a wing strike

[delicate silo]

..

[flint smelt]

Crazy shit fr

Some coins i’ve collected so far.

[uneven fog]

My 1 coin

[flint smelt]

This company is where all my money goes 😭

[uneven fog]

Let me put u on

Not coins

But some other pretty sick stuff

[flint smelt]

Might have to cop some stuff

[delicate silo]

How do you get em? Or just airshows

[flint smelt]

Some are from airshows, some I bought off of websites, and some I got from my dad and relatives.

The rarest ones I got rn are probs the monopoly one, nfl pro bowl, and the USS Daniel K. Inouye commissioning ceremony.

[delicate silo]

I think I have pics of one of those

[sage cape]

PC21?

when would you have seen one of those in the US

Blue Air have PC7/9s that’s all I can think of

[delicate silo]

emmm lemme check

eeeeehhh

unsure cant find the photos

prob something similar looking not the exact model

[flint smelt]

Holy shit, I just realized I forgot to turn my wifi back on, until I checked this photo again, lol

[delicate silo]

..

[glass charm]

Found these randomly 🤩

[flint smelt]

Dope ass callsign

[flint smelt]

A-10’s are in Hawaii rn, idk if thats connected to this or whatever.

[delicate silo]

Nah they went to vegas

[flint smelt]

Ah

I just caught em leaving.

Idk what squadron they are from

They left with ohio tankers 🤷‍♂️

[sage cape]

holy backlit 😭🙏

What was the tail

DM?

[delicate silo]

W

[flint smelt]

I got some good shots, but yea the sun is shining directly at you 💀

[flint smelt]

Leme check

[flint smelt]

Ahhh, it was OS. 25th FS from Osan Air Base, South Korea.

Not as bad as it looks

[delicate silo]

South Korea??

[flint smelt]

Ye

[delicate silo]

Bro that thing will destroy north Korea

[flint smelt]

Ong

Why did the fkin aussies leave at 6 in the morning bro 🙏🙏😭

[delicate silo]

Lol

[uneven fog]

Rise and grind

[sage cape]

Gotta be home for brekkie the next day

Government probably just didn’t wanna pay em any extra deployment time

[flint smelt]

Reals

[flint smelt]

Probs, fighters usually leave like 8-10am thats why.

[delicate silo]

Pilot wants one of my photos 🤑

[wary wren]

neat

[thorny warren]

Ultimate backlit 😭

[flint smelt]

Its not as bad as it looks 🤷‍♂️

Im going back tmr anyways to catch them again. Hopefully I’ll get some better shots.

Today was not my day..

[delicate silo]

idk who that is

but all right

[uneven fog]

Nvm

[flint smelt]

LMAO

[delicate silo]

oh lol

same a10

but his were landing

not taking off

[flint smelt]

A10 pilots and their phone mounts

[delicate silo]

fr

@uneven fog unfair comparison his were lanidng >:(

best I can give ya

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

what

[flint smelt]

Huh?

[delicate silo]

wdym 4 tankers

[flint smelt]

Sorry not 4, I think 6 tankers left with 4 a-10’s

Dis morning

[delicate silo]

oh my dust

im gonnna excplode

over the entire image

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

best I got from my spotting this morning lol

[flint smelt]

Pop a zyn

[delicate silo]

rest are blurry

oh well

that spot gets cool vids bad pics

lol

unless you dont mess up

got cool f35 pics there

[sage cape]

Texting and flying

[delicate silo]

fr

[uneven fog]

Looks like an iPad mount

Foreflight and fly 🔥🔥🔥

Big iPad guy

[flint smelt]

I rock with this retro type style lettering on the Ohio Air Guard 135.

(Its not as bright as it looks in the image)

[flint smelt]

I’ll try to get more creative shots tmr.

[sage cape]

Up da navy

[sage cape]

PHNL is so ASS bro tf is that lighting

Nellis looking ahh

[flint smelt]

Ye, most of the images that me and the buds take have this type of funky background.

I kinda like it tho.

[sage cape]

is it nicely light in the arvo

[flint smelt]

This is a shit explanation of the light situation here.

The red is where the sun usually is, and the blue is where we plane spot from

Right = late morning, noon, afternoon.

Left = early morning sunrise, and sunset

[flint smelt]

I usually don’t stay till the afternoon. I only till like 12 latest. I’ll try find a afternoon shot from another spotter.

This is around 1pm

Most days it’ll look like this. Either straight blue sky or stratus and similar looking clouds with blue skies.

And if you face your camera towards downtown area you’ll get pure whiteness.

[sage cape]

Damn so the light just sucks 24/7

[flint smelt]

Also we have weird weather. Most locals call it bipolar weather (idk if its breaking the rules)

[flint smelt]

Ye, but you can still cook with the lighting situation.

[flint smelt]

Out of the blue it can start raining with clear skies. One day it’ll be in the 80’s sweatin balls and then the next it could be cold af (to us locals).

Just go to my social profile and look at the backgrounds on most of my posts. They’re all the same type. 😭

This is the best the lighting will get in my opinion

[sage cape]

lmao

[flint smelt]

Ye its fked up. But the military spotting opportunities here are worth it.

[flint smelt]

Good shit bro

[sage cape]

100%

the stuff u see is epic

[delicate silo]

m

[uneven fog]

Buy a boat and go to the other side of the runway

Pretty sure some guys at Boston did that

Took a dinghy into the harbor and spotted

[flint smelt]

The lagoon?

I only spot at the general av parking lot and parking garage.

Those are the two most effective.

[delicate silo]

all about backlit lol

deal with it

[flint smelt]

I do, its honestly not that big of a problem for me..

[sage cape]

don’t deal with backlit. Trespass on defence land.

[delicate silo]

Sometimes you have no other option @sage cape

[uneven fog]

I guess

[sage cape]

You can do that at Sydney

[flint smelt]

ONG, some of the peeps go on hickam and spot the aircraft taxxing.

[sage cape]

lmao

[uneven fog]

That’s crazy

[delicate silo]

.. wild

how are you even allowed to spot when people do that

[uneven fog]

One of the more secretive bases too

Raptors, used to have B-2s?

Probably some other shit

[sage cape]

Do the military aircraft always use that south runway?

[flint smelt]

Na we never had b-2s

[delicate silo]

mmm b2

I wanna see one

[uneven fog]

I’ve seen one once

4th of July 2020

[delicate silo]

ah

I think there have been 3 in my state since I begain photography

[flint smelt]

8R is most common

[uneven fog]

B-2, F-22s, B-1, F-35Bs, F15Cs, Thunderbird Delta, B-52

[delicate silo]

b52 mm

35b mm

[flint smelt]

They sometimes use 8L or the other runways (26R/26L). Depends on the trade winds.

[flint smelt]

We only get raptor, 135s, and C-17s now.

[delicate silo]

RAPPTOOR

lucky

[sage cape]

F35?

[flint smelt]

No necessarily, we do have The PACAF headquarters, NORAD, and INDOPACOM headquarters.

Tho.

[flint smelt]

Na

Only those 3

If you have the right connections it is possible to spot on base

Only mil installations I will spot on is West Lock where they build torps and shit, and at K-Bay.

[flint smelt]

🔝

[sage cape]

hope the Hawaiian raptors come back to Williamtown this or next year

[flint smelt]

We do host B-2’s, U-2’s, B-52’s, and other cool shit sometimes.

Not often tho.

[flint smelt]

Hope you guys visit again sometime this year. I know you guys are coming for RIMPAC next year for sure.

[sage cape]

we’ll probably transit through when we end up at RF Alaska

Dunno what squadron that’ll be, probably an F35

Both 18 squadrons already been to a red flag this year so I doubt it’ll be them

Have you ever tried to spot at the marines base

Where all the osprey squadrons are

there’s like four aren’t there

They’re on a rotation to come to Australia every year for 8 months

[flint smelt]

Yea, I usually spot near the beach or archery range since it’s like right next to the runway.

[sage cape]

nice

Ive got a mate in rural Australia and they go through his town a bunch while they’re deployed, he wants to go over and spot em there lmao

[flint smelt]

We have 2 osprey squadrons (VMM-363 Red Lions and VMM-268 Red Dragons). We also have 1 Seahawk squadron (HSM-37 Easyriders), a refueling squadron (VMGR-153 Hercules), and we have a couple ATAC Hawker Hunters MK58.

Idk if I missed anything.

That took big brains

[flint smelt]

Nice, I’ve got a T-shirt and coin from both the VMM’s based here.

He should go talk to them, they’re good chaps.

[sage cape]

Red dragons were here last year

And I think 363 is coming this way

the ospreys are already on ships over apparently

[flint smelt]

Fr? I never saw a LHD at pearl. They must’ve flew to the ship.

[sage cape]

no they pack em and put em on cargo ships

[delicate silo]

Hawaii raptors

I'm jealous

Luxky

[flint smelt]

Ahh

How tf did they get an osprey from k-bay to the docks without anyone noticing. 😭

[sage cape]

i think they get em to fit in like the standard shipping containers

and they probably need to dissasemble them on base, so i guess they truck them to the docks

[flint smelt]

Ahh.. lotta work.

[flint smelt]

Ain’t you from Nebraska or smth?

[delicate silo]

no

and nebraskka doesnt have raptoors

they have 135s

all of em

rc, kc, wc

only seen the rc and kc

never a wc

[flint smelt]

I know I was gonna say if you’re from there you guys have all the rare stuff.

[delicate silo]

what rare stuff do they have? rcs? wcs?

https://youtu.be/7UIt0GckcL0 this is crazy how do they even take off lol

[flint smelt]

All the stuff at offutt. It’s home to the E-4B, all the RC-135 aircraft, and WC-135.

[delicate silo]

yeah

they fly around all the surrounding states though so not that rare

like daily or weekly

they vist another state

[flint smelt]

Ah. I consider them to be really rare. You rarely see these aircraft in Hawaii thats why.

[delicate silo]

never seen the e4 or wc but at least the e4 visits alot

wc has visited once or twice since ive been paying attention

[flint smelt]

👍

[delicate silo]

ig rare all depends on where you live

[flint smelt]

Surprised they didn’t cancel their flight, lol

[delicate silo]

yeah

[flint smelt]

Ye.

Lmao, one of the a-10 pilots had a ABC store bag in the cockpit.

[delicate silo]

abc?

[flint smelt]

You never heard of ABC stores?

[delicate silo]

nop

[flint smelt]

Its a store that is for the tourists.

[delicate silo]

ah

lol

got some goodies

[flint smelt]

Tourists flock here just for this, lol.

[delicate silo]

why lol

[flint smelt]

Idk, lol. They get custom Hawaii only stuff dats why.

And its like on every street corner in Waikiki

[delicate silo]

💀

[flint smelt]

Just like stussy..

[delicate silo]

What is you opinion on the tourist culture there

just curious cause like prices and stuff

[flint smelt]

Uhhhhh…. I get mixed opinions, some of them are nice, some of them just piss me tf off

[flint smelt]

If your coming here respect the land, and support local.

[sage cape]

This fella had a woolies bag

[delicate silo]

bin

[sage cape]

local supermarket

[flint smelt]

Colorful bag.

[delicate silo]

a10 pilot had a book lol

[flint smelt]

Dude dont get me started on prices..

Its insanely expensive.

[delicate silo]

lol

[flint smelt]

Just some eggs and milk will probs set you over 15 bucks.

[delicate silo]

island prices

lol

[flint smelt]

A condo here costs over 500 grand

A typical house = a mil

[delicate silo]

crazy

[flint smelt]

Thats why us locals are flocking to Las Vegas, lol.

9th island.

[delicate silo]

ah

[flint smelt]

Ye so mixed feelings. I hate em, but hawaii’s economy kinda depends tourism so I guess we need it.

[delicate silo]

yeah

[flint smelt]

Oh shit… I just learned that the a-10’s are heading back to Arizona to be retired

[velvet nexus]

never seen an a10 😮‍💨

[delicate silo]

Dang

Maybe they'll stop here mm

[flint smelt]

What squadron were they from?

[delicate silo]

Local

They are just sitting on the taxiway

I wonder if they are waiting for a fourth

[flint smelt]

Ah

[delicate silo]

Cessna just tried to land here

I hope it is a pilot at the base and not some random kid

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

Go to land and then see 3 f16s sitting there lol

[flint smelt]

No military movement yet

[delicate silo]

Got to see the 16s leave

Tried recording it with my dslr lol

Now it's lunch time

[flint smelt]

Idk why I decided to go spot today. Should’ve known they weren’t going to fly on a Sunday.

[delicate silo]

Haha

[uneven fog]

Leaving the field for lunch is always a bold move

I was waiting for a 727 the other day, waited an hour but started to get a headache, left to go get chic fil a, as the girls handing me my food I hear them call ready to taxi

[flint smelt]

I starve myself. One time I had to use the bathroom, so I left to go to the NEX, and when I was doing my business, I checked ADS-B and about 4 22’s left.

[uneven fog]

Piss in a bottle next time

[flint smelt]

I didnt have a bottle :/

I only bring my camera bag

No food or water

[uneven fog]

unrelated but another day without the f35C schedule 💔

[uneven fog]

Can you stay near ur car?

Or is it a bit of a hike?

[flint smelt]

I send a pic

[uneven fog]

Oh bruh u gotta have that stuff in ur car

[flint smelt]

If you get a suv or truck, you can just sit on the roof or bed and you can see over the fence so no need go to the barrier.

[uneven fog]

That’s the essentials

[flint smelt]

Nobody gon steal, get the security guards patrolling and theres now a tent by the fence where a guard sits.

So peeps put their bags on the barriers where all the dudes are standing.

Also like every 10 mins a sheriff roles by.

Some daredevils go here to spot the mil aircraft sitting on the ramp or to catch em taxxing.

(Not mine)

[thorny warren]

Bushes exist

[delicate silo]

Haha didn't plan to go back

I never leave for lunch if I want to see it

Went 0 for 2

The two times i did it

[flint smelt]

Bru, its a fking parking lot with a bunch of people, i ain’t taking a piss so the whole world can see

And there are no bushes in the parking lot..

[thorny warren]

Man if you gotta go you gotta go 😭

Plus you can always just distance yourself

[delicate silo]

Plane photos >> kidney

[delicate silo]

Leaving is never an option

It's a curse

You gotta stay

Every time I've ever left I've never made it back

Every time I've ever left they start leaving

[flint smelt]

I only leave if I really gotta go.

[delicate silo]

Nah

[flint smelt]

Even if you gotta shit? You don’t leave?

Still backlit but not as bad.

[delicate silo]

Hasn't happened

Yet

Been spotting less than a year

[flint smelt]

Ahh

[delicate silo]

Got my camera less than a year ago

[flint smelt]

All my pans turned to shit that day, so I decided to not pan for this since it was special.

[uneven fog]

Bush

[delicate silo]

Lol

Bowl

Bucket

Bring a 5 gallon

[uneven fog]

Shit bruh u near the beach just go in the water

[delicate silo]

Fr

[uneven fog]

no pun intended ^

[flint smelt]

I only had my R7 for a year too. Before I used my gramps Rebel t1i.

[delicate silo]

Ah nice

Saving for a z8 lol

[uneven fog]

I had my r50 for 7 months and then got tired of getting blisters on my fingers and upgraded to the R7

[flint smelt]

My mom has a throw up bucket in her car.

[delicate silo]

Blisters?

[delicate silo]

Uh oh

[uneven fog]

yea my middle finger would rub up against the lens

[delicate silo]

Hm

[flint smelt]

Its a trash can. Multi purpose I guess.

[uneven fog]

Cause the grip on the R50 is mad small

[delicate silo]

Lol

[uneven fog]

I have a ziplock bag in my camera bag at all times

[delicate silo]

For what

[uneven fog]

For whatever purpose it needs to serve

[delicate silo]

[flint smelt]

Better than nothing.

[delicate silo]

I got nothin

[flint smelt]

Hmm. I never been to west lock in a while I should go back and spot.

[delicate silo]

Past two days I've seen like over 20 jets

Counting landings

So more like 10

11

[flint smelt]

We’ve had plenty military movement the past few weeks.

[delicate silo]

Maybe 14 unsure if they swapped planes though

[delicate silo]

Hasn't been an increase here i just decided to commit

[flint smelt]

Ahh. Most of the stuff that comes through are in transit either coming back from deployment or getting deployed.

[delicate silo]

Ah

Only got f16s and 130s here rest is just moving on through

[flint smelt]

During RIMPAC hickam ramp gets completely filled, so the military has to borrow the other airport nearby, lol.

[delicate silo]

Rimpac?

[uneven fog]

Do u spot Buckley

Or has centennial just been hella active?

[delicate silo]

Sometimes

[delicate silo]

It's always active i just normally don't make it out there

F18s are weekly

[flint smelt]

Rim of the pacific. Its a multi nation training exercise mainly for the navy’s, but the air force also participates.

[delicate silo]

Oh nice

[flint smelt]

Ye, it’s like a big thing. Everytime the we host it, get people protesting by the base, lol.

[delicate silo]

Why

Protesting about what

Loud noise?

[uneven fog]

Military spending

[delicate silo]

Dumb

Spend more on military !!

Lol

Fake money anyway

[flint smelt]

Enviormental impact, humanitarian, and the fact that you guys kinda illegally occupied us.

And public resources.

[delicate silo]

Dumb..

Stupid

[uneven fog]

Peak entertainment is during the Seattle airshow when all the sensitive leftists start freaking out cause of all the fighter traffic

[delicate silo]

LOL

[flint smelt]

I get it, but like they sink a old navy ship, so like were kinda helping the marine mammals.

[delicate silo]

Reefs

[flint smelt]

Ye. They send over the old ships that have been retired and they sit in the docks until rimpac happens.

[delicate silo]

Lol

Sounds fhn

[uneven fog]

I have a buddy who works at the airport, and they’re the ones who are in charge of the phones, so people call whenever there’s a fighter that comes through. He played a voicemail from some lady freaking out and saying “we need to stop building war machines” and a bunch of other stuff

The funniest part was she was complaining about a T38

a jet that can’t carry armament

[flint smelt]

💀

Imagine the complaints nellis gets during red flag.

[delicate silo]

Some people re dumb

[delicate silo]

Fr

I was told I'm not allowed to drive to Nevada alone

Which is fair

[flint smelt]

Just dont go to the north side alone.

[delicate silo]

Whats there

[flint smelt]

Nellis, the surrounding is basically the hood.

[delicate silo]

Ah

[flint smelt]

Ye, my brother refused to take me for red flag at night.

I offered him 200 bucks.

[flint smelt]

I prolly choose the a-10 and f-14

[delicate silo]

I hate to say it but you're probably right

Of a10 and f15

[delicate silo]

...

[flint smelt]

It’s not that scary, but I still wouldn’t do it.

[flint smelt]

Or that one too.

[delicate silo]

Idk

Hard choice

[uneven fog]

What’s the scenario?!

[delicate silo]

Uh

Idk

[uneven fog]

Air superiority give me the eagle and raptor

Multirole give me the hog and raptor

[flint smelt]

Anyone know what this is about?

[delicate silo]

nop

[velvet nexus]

shit night shoot

[glass charm]

no matter if the photos are shit or not (they're better than my photos lmfao) still a cool heli

[flint smelt]

The lighting

[sage cape]

Almost missed Mirage F1s at like grabbing popeyes

[sage cape]

That fucking jet doesnt fucking fly in Australia it’s always fucking broken and they only fix it when it goes overseas

pmo bro pmo

[sage cape]

Krill yourself!

[velvet nexus]

The white balance 😭

[flint smelt]

I like the head on one

[sage cape]

Soft!

Essendon spotting may as well just jump

[velvet nexus]

nah not soft buckaroo

it was at 1/60

[velvet nexus]

cheers

[flint smelt]

Lol

[velvet nexus]

heh me when i havent spotted at amberley

[sage cape]

me when I haven’t spotted coastals

me when I live in Melbourne so see two PC21s a year

https://www.instagram.com/share/BAIU7gq1Tk

@flint smelt backlighting so bad bro resorted to film emulation 💔

[flint smelt]

Idk how that happened.

We took it at the same time to 🙏😭

[velvet nexus]

seen 8 pc21s this year
1 today, 1 more on wednesday

[flint smelt]

Cooked 🙏

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGsJ4GJRS0m/?img_index=1&igsh=MXViOGFnMnk0ZGkydA==

This guy def had the best a-10 shots out of everyone there.

typical shot at hnl… pure whiteness.

[sage cape]

Lmao

Gotta work with it

That’s a good as photo

[flint smelt]

Yea, he can cook

[flint smelt]

Oh what I would do to see a skyhawk

Prolly the best graphic design for the mv-22b in my opinion.

[sage cape]

supposedly theres a rumour australias getting em this year

[sage cape]

weve got heaps of psoters like this here in aus

one for like each of our fast jet sqns

[flint smelt]

Ahh, I was talking about the tail design. Idk if you knew that.

[flint smelt]

Damn, lucky if its true

[uneven fog]

Another day no f35C schedule

Obama did not die for this

[delicate silo]

obama isnt dead..

[uneven fog]

That’s exactly what they want you to think

[delicate silo]

…

[flint smelt]

Wish I could be spotting rn instead of sitting in a classroom 😭

Marine 35s are in town.

[sage cape]

ah yeh it is pretty sick

It went to an airshow here last year

The double design woth the surfboard on the right and dragon on the left is sick

[flint smelt]

Its rarely flies here. It just sits in a hanger. I think it only comes out during airshows.

[sage cape]

lmao so it’s your guys 306

[sage cape]

this fella

[flint smelt]

Ye.

I guess Hawaii cause we invented surfboard.

[sage cape]

hawaii is indeed know for its surfboards

So is the place they did the airshow at here

Literally called surfers paradise

[flint smelt]

Yups, every local knows how to surf, body board, or smth else regarding the water.

You should see Waimea when we host the Eddie. It’s like California highways.

[sage cape]

Lmao a beach I live near hosts the international surf comp Australia round and it gets PACKED

Or it used to at least

cant actually remember it happening last year

[flint smelt]

I would go do surf photography when they host em, but you gotta get up at like 2am if you wanna beat traffic and get a good spot.

[delicate silo]

….

[flint smelt]

Some dedicated people camp there.

The day before.

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

might be gold

[flint smelt]

The boys are back in town.

Peak mil ops in Hawaii.

Going to spot them Thursday since theres testing for school.

[delicate silo]

w

[flint smelt]

E-7’s are back from bamboo eagle too

[uneven fog]

I watched some Piper Cherokee do a unrestricted climb the other week

Held it like 70 ft off the ground and then pulled super nose high at the end of the runway

[delicate silo]

w

[sage cape]

fuck yeh hump 35

[delicate silo]

Only rewl 35

[flint smelt]

Would have preferred to see some legacy hornets, but f-35’s will do.

[flint smelt]

The F-35B is the only real variant?

[delicate silo]

Yes

Only one that is correct

[flint smelt]

Hell na

The only real variant is the original the f-35A

[wary wren]

They made three

All of these have their uses

[flint smelt]

The other two were developed off of this model.

[flint smelt]

I know that :/

I really missed this shit

[flint smelt]

Trying to reach 100 hours for my playlist…

[delicate silo]

Rookie numbers (is that all you or other people i don't listen to music)

[sage cape]

that’s the length of his playlist

must be a thousand songs on there

[delicate silo]

Ah

Is it even a Playlist

At rhat point

[wary wren]

why not

[flint smelt]

About right maybe a little more

[flint smelt]

I enjoy a variety of music, if my playlist was shorter, there same song would come on repeat everyday.

[delicate silo]

..

Technically if it was 24 hours that wouldn't happen

[delicate silo]

🫢

[flint smelt]

Na i still here the same songs sometime

[delicate silo]

..

[flint smelt]

Its a mix of country, oldies, reggae, pop, and other stuff.

[flint smelt]

Raptor playlist

[delicate silo]

It's peak

C418 was a genius

Arson Martian skibidi razz larson

[flint smelt]

[delicate silo]

@flint smelt

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2YsQC5s/

[flint smelt]

So skibidi

[flint smelt]

This shit is tuff

This is at Pearl Harbor rn.

3 balls.

[delicate silo]

hm

[flint smelt]

[sage cape]

used for missile testing I’d assume

[uneven fog]

I just saw a video

They were just being hella odd

[flint smelt]

Can you send em?

[uneven fog]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82dcq4j/

Read comments

[flint smelt]

Thanks

Ts is odd.

[delicate silo]

Where at?

[uneven fog]

Fresno

[delicate silo]

Ah

[uneven fog]

called base PA and asked for departure times

Multiple times

What the hell 💔

[delicate silo]

W

Lol

As if they are gonna tell you...

[flint smelt]

If you’ve been spotting at the base for a while… you should f in know what common times fighters leave…