Plane Photography

[delicate silo]

This one is special though

[brittle bridge]

no airshow

[delicate silo]

Lol

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it sucks

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Thanks

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there was gonna be one at offutt again but they cancelled

[delicate silo]

Rip

Nebraska isn't a big population so I see why

Ig other places get em with less

[brittle bridge]

ya

but offutt

[delicate silo]

How'd you go to offut, and st Louis lol

Or plane?

Nvm

They aren't that far

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Offutt is like an hour from me and st louis is like 7

[delicate silo]

7..

Wow

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my mom wanted to go to st louis also so i tried to make it happen the same week of the airshow

[delicate silo]

Ww

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fr

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Its like the videos of people going to Italy for the views and then just looking at cars

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[delicate silo]

Parents got bamboozled

[brittle bridge]

ok go to bed

[delicate silo]

Ye gn

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This is what I use too

[delicate silo]

No tbirds

I feel bad for co2025

[uneven fog]

What happened?

Weather?

[uneven fog]

@dusk spindle bro ⁉️

Can I get like a short history

From what I hear ppl already suspected it

[dusk spindle]

He’s always been a weirdo, got outted from the train community for talking weird to minors, surprised it took so long for him to get caught

[uneven fog]

aviation insta community go three months without a pedophelia scandal

Impossible

[delicate silo]

Yep

Extremely low ceiling

Few hundred feet maybe

[flint smelt]

Wild stuff 😂

[uneven fog]

R5 and a R5ii gonna sit and collect dust while he’s in jail 💔

[thorny warren]

And i thought i was gonna see some baller pics

[delicate silo]

Fr

[dusk spindle]

He has an r3 with a 400 and 600 prime 💀💀💀

[flint smelt]

Bro takes fire picks and then does that with his life 🤦

[dusk spindle]

Fire pics?

Hell nah

His photos are like 95% straight ass😭😭😭

Mf spends 20k on gear and 5k on a photo flight for shit

[flint smelt]

😂

[uneven fog]

what a waste of quality equipment

[pine summit]

The legend, Sean D Tucker, competed in aerobatics (in a GameBird!) this weekend, where I was the primary photographer.

[brittle bridge]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

I love your pics man

That C17 one you posted in #🚗・vehicles is phenomenal

[dusk spindle]

Thank youu🙏

[sage cape]

soft ass night shots

taken on a 150-600 C f5.6-6.3

desperately need a low light lens

[uneven fog]

Former TB5 and 6

[delicate silo]

Awesome

I might get her book

[flint smelt]

Out with the raptors today.

[brittle bridge]

Touch it

[flint smelt]

Booped the nose

[pine summit]

Anyone else heading to Beale’s show this weekend? Just got confirmation of media access. Some cool stuff slated to happen in the air and on the ground.

[uneven fog]

unfortunately not

That’s gotta be a good one with the U-2s

Is it good lighting?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKf3LV1MHZw/?igsh=bTF5NmIyMDN5MDE4

Instagram

[pine summit]

Haven’t been there since 2018. No usable memory fragments to draw on. I think it’s not favorable though.

[uneven fog]

Yea doesn’t look great

Didn’t realize how like desolate Beale is

[delicate silo]

Headed somewhere else all week lol

[pine summit]

Super convenient for SR-71, U-2, and future missions though. Still can’t believe the statics they’ve announced.

[delicate silo]

Sr71??

Static?

Thats sick

Top 5 American airplanes for sure 40+ years ahead of its time

[sage cape]

😭🙏

that’s not what he said

[delicate silo]

Got no idea what he said tbh

I have zero context

[pine summit]

Might be a misunderstanding there. The SR-71 was based at Beale. It is NOT listed as static.

[delicate silo]

Ah lol

Didn't really understand what you said nor read the context lol

[pine summit]

Here are the statics

[delicate silo]

Holy

[pine summit]

YFQ-42 & YFQ-44!

[delicate silo]

I don't even know what those are lol

[pine summit]

Look them up. Might be their first public appearance? 🤷‍♂️

[delicate silo]

Ooh

Yeah

Just didn't know their names

[delicate silo]

Have fun

[pine summit]

No. 😂

[delicate silo]

[flint smelt]

Night shift keeping the tourists awake with full afterburners.

[rare vector]

Hell yeah

[uneven fog]

Kind of a mid flying lineup

For Beale

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https://www.twz.com/34084/the-mysterious-case-of-the-air-forces-new-strangely-modified-737

Probably one of the most mysterious airplanes on the planet

[sage cape]

that’s the final edit?

[uneven fog]

The rushed one

[glass charm]

been a while

[sage cape]

mint

[tardy compass]

Chef Nelson has arrived 😮‍💨

[uneven fog]

Is that from when razz went thru?

Or a different time

[brittle bridge]

real bro

[uneven fog]

We both have 117

[viscid elbow]

Oooh . This first one is crazy

[pine summit]

Beale has been fun, but HOT

[ripe void]

Pave Hawk out of Patrick SFB, these guys caught me unaware at the beach the other day. I had my 105 macro on and was focusing on much smaller stuff. While I made the right call and photographed them, I let myself get a little rushed even though there were 4 of them in a line. I wish I had slowed my shutter down and tried to pan with the last one.

[sage cape]

@glass charm cross runway ops at Sydney this arvo

[sage cape]

yeh nah

[uneven fog]

Why would you make the shockwave photo b and w 💔

[sage cape]

The formidable force known as backlighting:

[obsidian quarry]

what lens is that wtf

[uneven fog]

rf100-500

[flint smelt]

Tell Qantas to send Yam Dreaming back to Hawaii please. 🙏

[flint smelt]

They actually listened, lol.

[uneven fog]

Drill weekend + VMFA-251 Thunderbolts CAG

[dusk spindle]

Tell temelko he smells

[uneven fog]

I’ll be honest I don’t know who that is 🔥

[glass charm]

Yesss civvy ain't that bad fr 🔥

[sage cape]

Wrong

[sage cape]

Such a nice livery

[uneven fog]

Got to the airport today n realized every single one of my scanner batteries were dead

[glass charm]

I've never been at the airport for cross runway ironically

[dusk spindle]

Av8b supremacy

Mightve not seen him

He looks homeless

[sage cape]

first time I ever went it was 25 lmao

It should be 25 again this arvo

[uneven fog]

Welcome to Westfield Massachusetts

I don’t think I saw him but I really have no idea

[uneven fog]

Absolutely brutal haze today

[glass charm]

Well I'm going to be having some fun soon, quite the upgrade 💀

1DX + Simga 60-600mm

Used to have Eos600D w EF-S 55-250mm

[sage cape]

Yeh now you can spot actual military

[glass charm]

Yeah yeah

And I can spot civ from literally my own house

[dense totem]

are you living right next to the fucking airport or smth

[glass charm]

Like no joke

Coming off the cross rwy

[glass charm]

Yeah 💀

[sage cape]

Pretty much everywhere in aydney gets flown over depending on the runway

[dense totem]

oof

[glass charm]

And another one

[brittle bridge]

1/250 seems low

[flint smelt]

USS Tripoli LHA-7 America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship with the USS Missouri in the back.

[sage cape]

the suns about to go down in that photo contrary to your belief there’s not actually infinite light 🤯🤯🤯

[uneven fog]

Infinite iso

I always shoot in 1/2000 regardless of the lighting

The haze monster is coming to get you

[brittle bridge]

same

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🙏

[velvet nexus]

insanely shit lighting

[uneven fog]

Yall see air India?

1 survivor

Sounds like an engine failure

What’s interesting is there’s a video that shows them with no flaps down as they’re descending into the terrain

Not sure if they didn’t have them set at all for takeoff

Or if they brought them up after the engine failed

The 78 can fly on 1 engine

Every multi engine airplane can

[viscid elbow]

Apparently it hit a medical college

Did that kill anyone in the college?

[brittle bridge]

Yeah

It lost signal at like 600 feet

Ironically the 787 had no deaths and they just celebrated 1 billion passengers carried safely

Comments on one of the videos 😭😭

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Yeah I believe so the hostel part

[livid compass]

hello gulfstream

[uneven fog]

Ok twin way to cook

[delicate silo]

Holy backlighting

But fire shots

[viscid elbow]

Who needs wind tunnels when you have. Vapor photos. Jk. sick shots ❤️‍🔥

[viscid elbow]

How would it look in black and white. And the Left bottle corner darker ? I feel
Like that could look good. But what do you think ?

[livid compass]

i have this version too but i don't like it much

[viscid elbow]

Ah

[viscid elbow]

Even in black and white?

Then again. This is just my personal opinion. So if you don’t want to don’t listen to me

[brittle bridge]

holy vapor god damn

Majestic vapor

[livid compass]

i think i'm the only person who got the rainbow vapor that day

[uneven fog]

What show?

Whimsical ass vapor

[livid compass]

Miami

[rare vector]

Cropped too tight on some of them

[sage cape]

gng what

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3rd and last one

way too tight

need some space around the plane

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that one too

[sage cape]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

it’s just straight sky around the plane

what’s the point in showing more of that

[flint smelt]

Maitai’s and Gamecocks.

[uneven fog]

Invest in better lighting 🙏🙏🙏

[flint smelt]

This lighting is peak bro 🙏. It could be way worst trust me 😂.

[uneven fog]

I guess you’re not in the know

[flint smelt]

Yea

[delicate silo]

fr

[flint smelt]

Like raptors and shitty lighting? 🤷‍♂️

[delicate silo]

you dont know what good lighting is

we have two different meanings of good lighting

[flint smelt]

I guess so 🤷‍♂️

[delicate silo]

lol

[flint smelt]

Like this to me is good lighting.

[delicate silo]

good lighting just soft

[delicate silo]

Shadows slider..

[flint smelt]

USS America 😮‍💨

[flint smelt]

What is this?

[pine summit]

YFQ-44A, Anduril Industries, “Fury”

[flint smelt]

Oh ok, thx 👍

[pine summit]

YFQ-42 from General Atomics was also there. Haven’t edited a real photo of it yet though.

[delicate silo]

fun

[stuck yarrow]

#🚗・vehicles message oh my fucking god this is the most beautiful photo ive ever seen

[sage cape]

Straight down

MORE CONTRAST

MORE CLARITY

LESS SATURATION

💯💯

[livid compass]

i love my clarity slider

[livid compass]

oh yeah him

[delicate silo]

Taptor just makes rainbows

[sage cape]

greatest invention

[stuck yarrow]

stare

shiny

my fav from most recent manchester spotting (last year)

[stuck yarrow]

we dont typically have f22s in england but we got the mighty typhoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQg4ZgTwbtM&ab_channel=ThisisFlight

i witnessed with moment with a shit camera, lost every pic🔥

2:22 is the best

@livid compass i need tips

i have a d800

not too good with it

most of my pics are kinda eh

stuck on manual

[delicate silo]

4fps

[delicate silo]

bro that wouildve been so sick if it didnt fly into the cloud

[delicate silo]

if you can get around the 4fps it doesnt look like a bad camera

[uneven fog]

I think the US is going to war

[dusk spindle]

Yippee

[delicate silo]

Lol that's crazy

What are they doing

[sick wedge]

fixing the global shipping crisis

[brittle bridge]

Wat da hell

[stuck yarrow]

i can get 5 fps with dx mode but i cba with the crop, there would just be no point to the sensor

[delicate silo]

Escape the 4fps and it looks like a fine camera

[delicate silo]

3 b1bs just flew in

I might have to spend my entire day at the airport tomorrow

Arrgghh

[flint smelt]

Lucky

[uneven fog]

Buckley?

[flint smelt]

Poor F-14 🥀

[delicate silo]

Nope

[flint smelt]

All your bases are space force yea?

[delicate silo]

Ye

Peterson and buckley

[flint smelt]

Ah

[delicate silo]

I got a ride on one of petersons c130s last week 🤩

lol

[flint smelt]

Nice

[delicate silo]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFV3IMrCY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Instagram

[potent hull]

woooo!!!!

[uneven fog]

Holy shit

[potent hull]

💀

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/b52-nuclear-bomber-gif-7970221868193675634

[thorny warren]

Cooked

[rare vector]

btw, those were sent to europe and are on their way to the east rn

[uneven fog]

Yea

[rare vector]

planning to attack in the next 48 hours or something? USS nimitz on their way too

[delicate silo]

Bruh

[rare vector]

lmao

[delicate silo]

Twitter war ngl

I'm fine with ending their nuclear program but it's not our war to get involved in

[uneven fog]

Unbelievable

[dense totem]

lmao

is it physical or focal length tho

[pine summit]

Pretty sure they don’t know. Either way, not attending is the only way they’ll possibly learn.

[dense totem]

i found out the hard way at the Australian open at the start of the year, probably better to just send an email in or something just in case

[uneven fog]

I’d assume focal length?

Not sure

I wasn’t planning on going

Just concerning to see stuff like that pop up

[dense totem]

i guess they dont want photos of the planes given the threat of war is just increasing

[uneven fog]

I guess but nothing that classified goes to airshows

[delicate silo]

Theres millions of photos of military aircraft and they're taken daily

That'll do basically nothing

[delicate silo]

I'll be bringing my 7.8in lens thank you very much

Then zooming it to like 12 inches

[delicate silo]

P1000 moment

[uneven fog]

Barely a real camera

[delicate silo]

lol

Better than phone camera

[brittle bridge]

What the fuck

Bring a 70-200 then a 2x tc

[uneven fog]

On a crop sensor

[brittle bridge]

Nah m43

[delicate silo]

[delicate silo]

Image quality 📉

[brittle bridge]

god these CAP planes have been flying non stop

[uneven fog]

I hate CAP

Seems like they’re always in the wrong spots

Heard a CAP guy bust a jump zone with jumpers in the air once

[delicate silo]

I ❤️ Cap

[brittle bridge]

Annoying asf

Bruh they’re still going

[delicate silo]

What's your problem with cap planes lol

Cooler livery than your average cessna

[brittle bridge]

they fly in circles right above my house

all day

[delicate silo]

Hey planes train over my house too

It's not that bad

[brittle bridge]

it gets annoying

cause it’s all day

pretty much every day

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/flares1-gif-20670140

[brittle bridge]

sometimes there’s a loud ass Blackhawk

[delicate silo]

Same

Fire ngl

Love when they come around

[brittle bridge]

I don’t love it when it’s 11:30pm and I’m trying to sleep

[delicate silo]

Hater

Probably the same person to file noise complaints 🫢

[brittle bridge]

Nope

Never have

Never will

[delicate silo]

"oh no the planes are raining lead fuel onto my kids"

[delicate silo]

You should join cap so you can be the guy above your neighborhood

[uneven fog]

sometimes I’ll be in the pattern n look down at the single house n think “damn they must be sick of my shit”

[delicate silo]

lol

[brittle bridge]

😭

[delicate silo]

we dont need 30 tankers

for one bomb

[brittle bridge]

real

Iran gonna find out why us Americans don’t have free health care

[delicate silo]

lets just send a single b2 in blow up the facility

and leave like nothing happened

[brittle bridge]

Easy

B2 is stealth

No one has to know

[delicate silo]

Wall paper evolution lol

[tardy compass]

Iran gonna be finished before the 22s leave Lakenheath so may as well keep them there for RIAT 🤷‍♂️ (I just wanna see an f-22 😭 )

[dense totem]

low-key mid ahh 😭😭

This is peak lockscreen

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/johnson-john-johnjohn-dance-posing-gif-6772888069883239651

[uneven fog]

Does the vapor look too unnatural

Specifically the edges

[delicate silo]

Yea

[uneven fog]

Lightroom auto masking isn’t very good

[delicate silo]

Why would you ever use auto masking

[uneven fog]

Do you want me to use the brush

and trace the whole fucking photo

[rare vector]

I use it pretty often, subject mask etc is pretty good

[delicate silo]

Not around the edges

[rare vector]

Depends what you wanna mask

[delicate silo]

Just use objects and brush

[rare vector]

for cars etc it works perfectly, I'd say Planes too

stuff like vapor etc yeah that wont work properly

[delicate silo]

Ive had it mess up alot of planes

It's more work to clean up the edges than it is to use object tool and brush

[dusk spindle]

Stalker shoot

[uneven fog]

They came into my airport one time after I was done flying

Right at sunset

Didn’t own a camera and even if I did I wouldn’t have had it with me

[dusk spindle]

Glorious conditions too😭

This was a few nights ago over my airbnb

[delicate silo]

Luxk 📈 📈

[dusk spindle]

I gave the pilots my coordinates so im pretty sure they marked it as a waypoint lol

[delicate silo]

gave em a $20 too

[dusk spindle]

Nah i just begged rly rly hard

On my knees

With tears

[delicate silo]

the only one I can find is from november 2024

im going to explode

peak lightroom

[brittle bridge]

seriously

we didnt need to get involved

[delicate silo]

Fr

We were like dang we missed out on the war going on with India so we gotta jump on this one before it's over

We shouldn't have

[brittle bridge]

now were cooked

well actually probably not

irans missiles cant even reach great britain

[delicate silo]

Fr

[brittle bridge]

we chilling ong

we got more MOPs lmao

us better release video of them dropping the bomb on fordow

lmao

[delicate silo]

Gonna release a video of everyone scrambling to get out

Before it goes boom

[brittle bridge]

💀

the iran twitter pages are popping off with "threats"

[delicate silo]

Fr

[brittle bridge]

have u seen them

[delicate silo]

Ye

Like a fortnite event

[brittle bridge]

lmao

the bombing lowkey a fortnite event 😭

[delicate silo]

Give them 2 weeks trump says

He meant 2 days lol

[brittle bridge]

i had a feeling he was going to bomb them on july 4th lmfao

apparently theres gonna be a nationwide address at 10pm ET

[delicate silo]

That'd be hilarious

[brittle bridge]

so in an hour

he boutta make it sound like it was a good idea

[delicate silo]

"We bombed them, we bombed them so good they're going to to say please US don't bomb us again "

Or something

[brittle bridge]

yup

lowkey hyped for it 😭

sooo does this mean iran has no nuclear stuff now

[delicate silo]

I don't know what blowing it up does

Besides slow it down

They still got all their research

[delicate silo]

Boom Iran bomb bom iean

Iran

[brittle bridge]

ig destroying where they get uranium from?

[uneven fog]

Old uncle Sam’s, getting pretty hot, time to turn Iran, into a parking lot

[brittle bridge]

should i google how to get uranium

[uneven fog]

Free B-2 airshow if you do probably

[brittle bridge]

😭

lev are you american?

i thought u were aussie for some reason

[uneven fog]

hell no

I’m a god damn patriot

[delicate silo]

Someone here is aussie

Don't remember their name

[brittle bridge]

Banana?

[delicate silo]

No

He's Hawaiian

[flint smelt]

Natu

[brittle bridge]

ah yeah

[uneven fog]

Far from the threshold as possible

[brittle bridge]

this address was so buns

"irans nuclear program completely obliterated"

[delicate silo]

Bro that's as close as you can get really

I found out after there's a little dirt road you can take

Which I'll do Monday

[delicate silo]

Lol

[dense totem]

#🚗・vehicles message
@dusk spindle is there a version where theyre silhouettes? would prolly be sick

[delicate silo]

The entire runway is surrendered by a sfb so you can't get near 17l arrivals

[dusk spindle]

Kinda..

[dense totem]

i wonder what pulling the shadows completely could do

[rare vector]

Oh holy shit

[brittle bridge]

so cooked

[rare vector]

They literally teasing it like a fortnite Event LMAO

[brittle bridge]

Those missiles cant even reach great britain lmfao

they aint doin shit

[rare vector]

smh I wanna see vids of the bunker busters in action

[brittle bridge]

same

These iran twitter posts are crazy

[rare vector]

ofc they aint, theyre posting ai photos saying they shot down Israeli drones and photos of a fire in China saying its tel Aviv

[rare vector]

Its hilarious

[brittle bridge]

Im deadass about the missiles too lol

they dont even reach GB

soo

[rare vector]

Lmao yeah

[brittle bridge]

only thing affected would be us middle east bases

iran was using F14s their stuff aint very advanced

[rare vector]

I assume they got pretty good aa

prolly better than iron dome etc

[brittle bridge]

F14 vs F22 who will win

[rare vector]

doubt theyll get Hit

[brittle bridge]

💀

[rare vector]

Lool would be insane

[brittle bridge]

hilarious

ancient fossil vs new tech

[dense totem]

im putting my money on f-14

[rare vector]

Kinda hope we'll get pov videos like from the ukrainian pilots if anything happens, highly doubt it tho

[brittle bridge]

i want b2 footage asap

[viscid elbow]

Why would they need to reach Britain?

[brittle bridge]

im just saying their missiles aint reaching anywhere

like the us

[viscid elbow]

Are those MRBMs?

[brittle bridge]

Lmao

[viscid elbow]

They can hit US bases in. Saudi Arabia and. Europe. So they don’t technically need to hit mainland US

[brittle bridge]

yeah ik i said that

really only middle east us assets will be hit

And anything trump decides to send over like Nimitz

[viscid elbow]

Ahh found those messages. Ok

[viscid elbow]

ballistic missile against small targets like ships??

[brittle bridge]

🤷

Anything to destroy em

[viscid elbow]

I guess. But seem like a bit of an over kill. And. Well. Not good with the target cost vs. munition cost

[uneven fog]

I think it’s a fake account

Let’s talk about how the top gun Maverick plot is literally just this conflict

except instead of stealth bombers high as shit

It’s rhinos in the low level

[delicate silo]

Probably

With a name like that

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo

The rage baiting is insane

[delicate silo]

fr

I wonder what I would say if I just lost all my nuclear stuff

"we still have it"

[brittle bridge]

real life copium

[delicate silo]

your name is glowing

lol

nvm its gone

it was glowing

[brittle bridge]

yes

role

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo Lmao

This account is so funny

This is literally all copium

[uneven fog]

Germany tried, Japanese died, the Soviets cried. USA in 5

[brittle bridge]

real

[brittle bridge]

I just realized the US pretty much executed the mission from Top Gun Maverick 😭😭

[delicate silo]

yea

they did

lol

[brittle bridge]

Video of Fordo explosion it looks like

[dusk spindle]

Sadly not

[delicate silo]

wow

[brittle bridge]

Aw darn

My vid was even from official trump TikTok

[rare vector]

Imagine thinking you can troll the usa

No way theyd strike if they didnt know its still being used

[brittle bridge]

Iran would of had no idea we were gonna strike lmao so they didn’t move shit

This is just copium

[sage cape]

except when you basically told them multiple times over the past week

[dense totem]

bro he was flexing the fact he was gonna do smth

[sage cape]

“Iran should not have nuclear weapons!”
“Iran should have taken the peace deal”

[brittle bridge]

yeah but they said they moved shit a couple months ago

[brittle bridge]

^^^^

[uneven fog]

Chat we threatened them for 3 days

[delicate silo]

Threatened and moved like 30+ tankers lol

A little bit suspicious if you ask me

[brittle bridge]

Iran must have a child in charge fr

[golden rain]

some shots from the airport

taken at Kumamoto airport

at Fukuoka airport

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo

[uneven fog]

Apple Maps supremacy

[brittle bridge]

Just doing gods work

[delicate silo]

Lol

[rare vector]

Damn they really tried to hit an us base huh

Prolly the last time they ever tried something that stupid, Orange man will be angry

[delicate silo]

They're just asking to be hit again

[brittle bridge]

Did they fail

[rare vector]

Theres not much news on it yet but apparently nothing actually hit lol

[brittle bridge]

Lmfao

[delicate silo]

Peak missiles

[brittle bridge]

Missiles being manually flown fr

[tardy compass]

Just a quick few from duxford over the weekend

[golden rain]

3 Singapore Airline planes, at Changi

on airstrip at Mulu, Sarawak

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo

🙏

they be doin laps around my house

[delicate silo]

Rainbolt is gonna doxx u

[delicate silo]

Pattern work

What is your house an airport?

[brittle bridge]

Yeah my house is an international airport

It’s CAP flying

[brittle bridge]

And they’re back.

[delicate silo]

Join cap

So you can be the annoying person

[brittle bridge]

I thought about it

[brittle bridge]

But I’m already annoying

[delicate silo]

Annoying +

[brittle bridge]

[brittle bridge]

[golden rain]

Phuket airport, and the beach behind it

[uneven fog]

Not a big fan of wide angle stuff with aviation

But those are pretty cool

Colors look nice

[golden rain]

Danke

[delicate silo]

Hilarious to see everyone posing for photos

[delicate silo]

What mm?

[delicate silo]

what airport?

suprr close

[uneven fog]

Papa Sierra Mike

[brittle bridge]

Rage baiting atp

[uneven fog]

2x KC-46 formation overhead, 1 KC-135 full stop, 1 Antonov, 3 Charter 767s, 1 C-40 in the presidential colors, 2 C-17s, 3 ship KC-135 departure. Pretty good day

[brittle bridge]

yo

They defo moving uranium

[glass charm]

900mm equivalent 😂

[brittle bridge]

150-600 goated

[golden rain]

I used 20-70mm lens, mixture of focals

[delicate silo]

Ah looked further out than 20mm good to know

Ty

[glass charm]

60-600 🥶

On my 600D 😂

It was all lens no camera lmao

[brittle bridge]

ew

60-600 bad

stupid heavy and very mid

[glass charm]

I can confirm it was very heavy

The funny thing is ik the guy who landed the A380

Tom Payne 🗣️ 🔥

[sage cape]

Are we still backlit spotting in 2025

[delicate silo]

I had to spot b1s backlit.. sometimes it's impossible to get the sun behind you

[uneven fog]

I have new respect for the people who shoot in the hot places

[delicate silo]

Fr

[uneven fog]

90° FAHRENHEIT (for you Australian bums). Not a single shot I would call usable

[delicate silo]

Yeah heat haze is real

Ruins alot of shots

They go from sharp to nuh uh this is blurry now

[uneven fog]

Like what is this

[delicate silo]

Oi I saw that the other day

[uneven fog]

Oi

Aussie boy

[flint smelt]

Two EA-37B Compass Calls. Headin off to do stuff near Kauai.

The Missile Defense Agency is here for some reason also.

[brittle bridge]

interesting plane

never seen it before

[uneven fog]

I think that one was the first production model

Maybe second

[flint smelt]

Not sure.

[flint smelt]

Same, first time seeing them.

[glass charm]

It's practically midday it ain't that bad 😭

[dusk spindle]

Holy shit 💀

[dense totem]

hey bro charge your phone

[sage cape]

that’s Sydney airport

It’s always possible

There’s a spot for every time of the day

[sage cape]

“For you Australian bums” we use Celsius gang?

[sage cape]

Use a lower shutter speed it makes it not as bad

[uneven fog]

Oh word

[uneven fog]

Fahrenheit is superior btw

[uneven fog]

Fr

[brittle bridge]

Hell nah

[uneven fog]

You have to think of it like a percent

100°

100% hot

0°

0% hot

[brisk hinge]

F° is superior for weather and outside temperature, C° for everything else

[uneven fog]

What else would you be measuring in Celsius

[brisk hinge]

cooking, manufacturing, surface temperature, lots of things

cpu/electronics temperature

[brittle bridge]

Literally everything non weather or food related I use Celcius

[flint smelt]

Probably the rarest plane I may have ever caught.

Headin to the boneyard.

[sage cape]

☹️

[flint smelt]

Spoke to one of the pilots back when the first wave came through. He looked/sounded really sad 😔.

[stray blaze]

37 Years old and still the prettiest 😍

[viscid elbow]

What’s the big. Thing on center line?

[uneven fog]

I think this one has come through up here

They get a lot of the fancy avionics installed up here

[flint smelt]

External fuel tank.

[brittle bridge]

[brittle bridge]

no airshows near me copium 🙏

[uneven fog]

Oh so the news stations can have more than 200mm

[delicate silo]

bring a 7inch lens

I think thats around 200mm

then add a 1.5x

and youre good

you can get like 400mm on a 7inch lens

[uneven fog]

I think it was 200mm focal length

Not actual length

[delicate silo]

well

gate people dontk now that

[brittle bridge]

What airshow were you at that restricted lens length

lmfao

[uneven fog]

none so far

seems like a grey area at my home show

12in camera and lens full extended

Mine fits within and only some of the volunteers check and actually enforce

More just the premise of it

[sage cape]

Yes they do lol

[dusk spindle]

Or just hide you camera

[delicate silo]

Bag search

[dusk spindle]

Hide it better

[delicate silo]

Ermm

I dont have a pocket that can hide a 400mm+

Better option just cover up the mm on thee lens

[dusk spindle]

i just wrapped mine in a hoodie lmao

light work

[old bronze]

man I can never get my 12.5x99mm past security

[old bronze]

w livery but that tree just had to ruin it

[delicate silo]

Fire

[flint smelt]

I kept the tree on purpose.

[old bronze]

imo it just takes up a little too much of the photo

[delicate silo]

I like the tree

Maybe a little bit less

Like one frame before this one

[old bronze]

yeah

that's what I'm thinking

[old bronze]

how does it look if you crop a bit more of the tree out?

[old bronze]

maybe something between this and the first pic

[delicate silo]

Ye

[flint smelt]

👍. I will go back later on and check if I have smth.

[old bronze]

I think that's pretty decent

[delicate silo]

Razz thunderbird??

[flint smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-of-wall-street-lets-goo-gif-11742735383203550293

[delicate silo]

Best airshow pilot

[flint smelt]

Best narrator and coordinator, lol

[uneven fog]

Guys on a generational run

The razz glaze in the comments is insane tho

[delicate silo]

I'm a #1 razz glazer

[uneven fog]

And the funniest part is those are two completely different frames, they just look similar

[brittle bridge]

no way

[uneven fog]

Sometimes I’m in the mood to go edit some old stuff and then Lightrooms fuckass masking fucks up and I rage quit

[brisk hinge]

he was hanging out with the thunderbirds at seymour johnson a few months ago, when i asked him he said that it wasn’t related to a future with them but now the truth is out 😂

i’m excited to work with him being the narrator next season

[delicate silo]

For airshow? Or what

[brisk hinge]

yeah, i do sound production at a handful of airshows across the eastern us (including oshkosh) so i work pretty closely with all of the different narrators

as well as air bosses

[delicate silo]

Oh awesome

[brittle bridge]

yoooooo

[uneven fog]

@dusk spindle I met Temelko

[uneven fog]

Carrier break >

Bengals CAG and DCAG

[delicate silo]

FIre livery

The gray tiger one was in town a few months ago didn't go see it though

[delicate silo]

F22 break >

[sage cape]

I don’t think you understand what that means

[delicate silo]

Then what does he mean

[sage cape]

do you know what a carrier break is

[uneven fog]

For my Australian and Hawaiian buddies

@sage cape @flint smelt

[flint smelt]

Thanks bro 💯

Yea the raptors put externals on yesterday. I figured they were gonna head somewhere soon.

[delicate silo]

Fly over the carrier and break

[delicate silo]

External fuel tanks o:

[flint smelt]

Yessir

[uneven fog]

Looking like a real airport out here

[delicate silo]

Holy f18

[uneven fog]

Busted my scanner

[delicate silo]

What

[uneven fog]

The radio

For ATC

I broke mine

[delicate silo]

How

[uneven fog]

The contact for the antenna broke off inside of the scanner

[delicate silo]

Rip

[delicate silo]

Check fb or ebay

One was like 20 on fb and they're pretty cheap on ebay

[uneven fog]

Already ordered a new one on Amazon

I don’t like buying used stuff online

Don’t actually know what ur getting

[delicate silo]

Was about to say I've never had a problem

[delicate silo]

Then remembered when my dad bought a hotas and it came in a giant box no wrapping and was disgusting bro was definitely on something when he packaged that

[uneven fog]

Some bonus catches

[delicate silo]

An124

Lovely

[uneven fog]

Barely caught it

[delicate silo]

Love the an124

[uneven fog]

They’re like a daily occurrence here right now

[delicate silo]

Fire

[uneven fog]

They surprised me today and on Monday

[delicate silo]

I still need to go spot the a380

Ive seen it once but was 7 minutes late to photographh it

[brittle bridge]

I haven’t been spotting for like 2 years 💔

[sage cape]

Movement of the fucking year

Canadian Griffons, Aussie Blackhawks, American Blackhawks (not pictured), Singaporean chinooks, American Chinooks

[uneven fog]

Wow look at us carrying your poverty country

[sage cape]

🤔

not our fault you guys all want to come here cause we have the largest military airspace of any nato allied country

The airspace around Darwin is roughly the same size as Germany

[delicate silo]

Desert

[uneven fog]

No but even Australian aircraft

American made

[uneven fog]

What a day for this thing to show up

[sage cape]

Okay?

great observation your nation with ten times our GDP has a military industrial complex ten times our size

Want a medal?

[glass charm]

You've hit a bit of a nerve there Lev 😂

[glass charm]

Desert is suprisingly very useful especially when there are nuclear bombs and rockets to test 😁

Doesn't happen as much anymore thank goodness

[uneven fog]

🇺🇸

[uneven fog]

A nice visitor this morning

[delicate silo]

Freedom

[delicate silo]

Wow

I was wondering what it was like to be in the Air tonight

[dusk spindle]

im sorry

[brisk hinge]

i'm going to the Mach Loop in August, and am trying to think of things to bring that I might not be thinking of. I shoot airshows fairly often (and will be up at Oshkosh just before I leave for the UK) so I'm used to shooting jets, but just wanting to make sure that I have any accessories or other equipment that might make my life easier up there

any suggestions?

[delicate silo]

bring a UK spotter lol

[uneven fog]

Scanner if you don’t already have one

I always bring atleast 1 ziplock bag in my camera bag

Never know what you might need to keep safe

[brisk hinge]

good thought

[uneven fog]

I’d get one of the travel sized camera cleaning kits

[delicate silo]

camera rain cover

and a cover for your camera bag

[brisk hinge]

yep, got one

[brisk hinge]

my hero the ProTactic has one built in

[delicate silo]

oh nice

I just use a trashbag lol

[uneven fog]

Smh

[delicate silo]

Goofy lol

[uneven fog]

Incredibly

[delicate silo]

Id probably level it

[dusk spindle]

scanner. trashbag. umbrella. s

comfy chair

[uneven fog]

Point and laugh fellas

[uneven fog]

Snacks

Peanut butter crackers r my go to

[brisk hinge]

good idea

[thorny warren]

Opinions?

[rare vector]

Gradient is a bit too strong, otherwise nice tho

[thorny warren]

Alright appreciate it

[brisk hinge]

there’s always room to slow down the shutter speed when shooting props but helicopters are always harder to do. Overall aside from the strong gradient i like it!

[uneven fog]

Pooper69 is tuff

[delicate silo]

Atc is having fun with that one

[uneven fog]

Unfortunately they weren’t calling as that

Hot pit refuel

[uneven fog]

Love an unrestricted takeoff

[delicate silo]

That's not even unrestricted

Or not a good example

[sage cape]

Well youre fucking dumb

how is that not unrestricted

[sage cape]

Yeh we get around

[dark hare]

heli copter

[old bronze]

nah my bicycle would win

[uneven fog]

“Cowboy 1-1 ready for departure request unrestricted up to one zero thousand”

If you say so man

[brisk hinge]

"unrestricted" doesn't always mean "pushing the limits to the complete edge"

[uneven fog]

Just means you don’t have to do a standard climb to the altitude assigned

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[flint smelt]

Hey @sage cape the raptors could be heading your way today, not sure.

[delicate silo]

I said it wasn't a good example not it wasn't unrestricted

[uneven fog]

there is nothing that defines an unrestricted takeoff

Just means that you can climb at a higher rate than typical

[dusk spindle]

Holy shit

I came

[delicate silo]

Never said there was lol

[uneven fog]

McConnell 46 lost the boom off the coast of VA

While refueling Langley raptors

I don’t think that’s where it lost it

But

[delicate silo]

Didn't know that could happen

[dusk spindle]

Well its a kc46

Anything can happen

[uneven fog]

Idk if the kc46 is differently designed but the 135 guys have told me that the gas they use to refuel comes from the same tanks the engines burn from

[flint smelt]

The kc46 draws from the same tanks the engines use as well. (According to google)

[uneven fog]

Cooked

[delicate silo]

Fr

[delicate silo]

That's cool

Footage

[sage cape]

Yeh they’re coming to Australia

Not near me I believe, it will either be Tindal or Curtin

[sage cape]

The 160th are the tuffest fellas in the planet

[flint smelt]

Shit ton of em left around 11:30.

[flint smelt]

Go see them 🙏

[sage cape]

Australia is a BIG country

[dense totem]

On a good day too

It ends up being like 4-5 days if you stop and look around even a little

No one drives for that long straight

[sage cape]

$17 of tolls and I betcha all of that is in the first 20km

[uneven fog]

Take ur guesses as to how many on that line are working

[flint smelt]

Never mind 💀

[uneven fog]

Another one broke 💔

[flint smelt]

Only a couple more Assam Draggins left until they’re all gone. 😢

The Canadians.

AMC and their blank C-130s

[flint smelt]

DOJ

First F-15ex II ever in Hawaii

[delicate silo]

Nellis?

[flint smelt]

Based at Eglin in flordia. But i think they flew in from Nellis.

[delicate silo]

Ah

[glass charm]

Probably one of my favourite images I've taken this year

[tardy compass]

7 sqn doing a demo at duxford at the end of June

[stray blaze]

Hard to beat a sunny afternoon at Coningsby 🤘

[dark hare]

first time spotting with my new z5ii

[uneven fog]

Unfortunately it’s in Britian

[sage cape]

160th and some Aussies ripping it through Sydney Harbour before they fuck off up North

[glass charm]

wowa

civvy fun with one of my mates on saturday

I'm off to RAAF Base Williamtown tomorrow I can't wait : D

[sage cape]

Why put a watermark if there’s nothing to link you back to it

I can’t find any social media related to that

[glass charm]

You'll see eventually

Nothing atm

[delicate silo]

I do it

[sage cape]

okay?

[glass charm]

Saw 8 of these takeoffs today

Pretty impressive to someone who has only seen it once before

[sage cape]

Shoulda come coastals