Plane Photography

[brittle bridge]

i hate it

[delicate silo]

Prob in real life too

Seats are so uncomfortable

If you're like 6 7 you cant fit

[brittle bridge]

hhhow many?

[delicate silo]

[brisk hinge]

one of the pilots here keeps breaking the 500’ line and it’s glorious

FAA IIC doesn’t seem to care

[uneven fog]

Why tf is el Centro and Yuma the same weekend

They’re like an hour away from each other

Who’s idea was that

[lunar spade]

god i love sanicole airshow

[uneven fog]

flying some janky ass 1960s airplanes 💔

[wary wren]

Frankly id rather watch Cold War stuff than the modern planes

We will be watching F35s for the next half century, show me a Phantom while there are still some of them flying

Wish they still had F106s in flying shape too

[lunar spade]

it was almost the last chance to see one flying in europe ( greece will retire them q1 2026)

best plane i ever saw flying

[wary wren]

The purest example of flight through excessive thrust

[lunar spade]

we need a f104 for that

[uneven fog]

Thought you were saying the phantom was this

I was about to lol

[uneven fog]

Me too but it’s just funny that that’s what they’re flying

[lunar spade]

it's still a flying truck

[wary wren]

Write your congressman

When the government shuts down, this is the result

[uneven fog]

What

[lunar spade]

greece just lacks funding

[wary wren]

Oh it’s Greece lol

[uneven fog]

Mind you sanicole is in Belgium

[wary wren]

Didn’t the Blues miss a show this weekend

[uneven fog]

and the show occurred before the gov even shut down lol

[uneven fog]

Last couple weekends I think

[wary wren]

Shoulda voted Democrat

[lunar spade]

you know not having a governement is kinda usefull

no change = no bad changes

(i'm french so its a shitshow atm )

by any chance do you know if we can find f104 flying somewhere ?

[delicate silo]

There is a company in the US who let's rich people fly em and does some astronaut training

[lunar spade]

nice i still have a chance to see one

only 7000km away

[delicate silo]

W

Judt walk

Or something

[lunar spade]

definitely time to swim

or fly it's the point of planes

[delicate silo]

F104 barely has wings lol

Just a missile

[uneven fog]

if it was anyone other than Kamala probably

But we’d probably be in the same spot with Kamala as president

[uneven fog]

I will come pick you up in the Cherokee

give me 3 weeks I’ll be there

[lunar spade]

That's why i love it so much

It's a Goofy plane and i live those

[delicate silo]

Unique

NOT good in wt

[lunar spade]

For the better

[lunar spade]

I used to be decent with it in air rb

[delicate silo]

Turn radius is that of a blackbird fr

Produces less lift than a brick

[uneven fog]

I played it for one game the other day

got shlacked by a missile pretty much instantly

No flares and can’t pull quick enough to get out of the way

[delicate silo]

Flares

It doesn't have flares?

[uneven fog]

the USA ones have no flares

[delicate silo]

Thats wild

[uneven fog]

yes

[delicate silo]

It cant pull hard enough to evade lol

Just speeeeed

[lunar spade]

Yeah pure pain and suffer

But it's fun

[delicate silo]

Corsair >

[brisk hinge]

F-4 hate will NOT be tolerated

[delicate silo]

F4 kinda mid, but super cool opportunity

[lunar spade]

Hell no

F4 all the way

[delicate silo]

F4U >>>

[lunar spade]

Nah

[brisk hinge]

yeah, but it turned out to be a fantastic show. imo it wouldn’t have felt as close or small-yet-big(ish) with the blues here

[lunar spade]

I saw it too much

[delicate silo]

Die

[brisk hinge]

that’s an absurd opinion but sure

[delicate silo]

[brisk hinge]

will resist getting into politics here

[brisk hinge]

based though

[delicate silo]

We need a good president

Thats not ancient

[brisk hinge]

agreed

[lunar spade]

I'd rather see a nord 3202 flying than a f4u

[brisk hinge]

and i would’ve preferred someone other than harris too

[delicate silo]

I want them to have to live with their mistakes for more than 3 hrs

[brisk hinge]

but to say that we’d be in the same place with her, is certainly something

[delicate silo]

F4u is the world's greatest aircraft

Shut yo yapper

[lunar spade]

We all need that but there is little tonno one that would fit

[lunar spade]

Come on it can't be tge greatest

[brisk hinge]

really do think it’s a contender, yeah

[delicate silo]

Name a better then

[brisk hinge]

what’s your alternative?

[lunar spade]

Yak 3 fan here

[delicate silo]

Idek what that is

[lunar spade]

What

[delicate silo]

Merica

[lunar spade]

😐

[brisk hinge]

looks like a spitfire with hurricane inspiration

and also mid

[delicate silo]

This

[lunar spade]

I knew american didn't have tase

[brisk hinge]

you’re telling me this looks better

[delicate silo]

Youre French...

Cannot be talking

[lunar spade]

I can

I really know my subject

[delicate silo]

Spitfire fr

[lunar spade]

[brisk hinge]

than this??????

[lunar spade]

Yeah

[delicate silo]

Hot

[lunar spade]

Not the best yak 3 livery too

[delicate silo]

Livery cannot make the plane

[brisk hinge]

this explains it

why is yak 3 so good?

[lunar spade]

Just the sound and agility of it

[brisk hinge]

yawn

[delicate silo]

Whistling death >

[lunar spade]

Add a little bit of pride from the Normandie niemen

And you get me

[brisk hinge]

get mogged by american greatness

[delicate silo]

Jim toubol>>
(Idk how to spell last name)

[brisk hinge]

tobul

he’s a really nice guy

[delicate silo]

Never gotten to talk with him

[brisk hinge]

i’m so sad the airshow season is wrapping up

i think this weekend might’ve been the last show i can make this year

[delicate silo]

What do you do now

[brisk hinge]

audio production

[delicate silo]

For who

[lunar spade]

I had the chance to speak with our local f4u (p51 .... Etc ) pilot and know a few mechanic that work on the f4u

[brisk hinge]

an airshow and event sound company

[lunar spade]

Pretty cool plane

But not the best for me

[delicate silo]

Mm events

French

Am I right

🙄

[brisk hinge]

i only do the airshow part, the guy i work for does a couple other miscellaneous events but mostly airshows

[delicate silo]

Oh

So are you just off now

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[lunar spade]

I'm on the mechanic side of it personally

Pretty cool too

[brisk hinge]

(i just freelance for him as a part time side gig, it’s not my main job)

[delicate silo]

I see

[lunar spade]

Sound management is key to a good show

[brisk hinge]

really just out there to have fun and be involved behind the scenes

[brisk hinge]

very true

[delicate silo]

Can you get sunset shots?

Or rise

Of statics

[brisk hinge]

if i cared to get up that early sure

[delicate silo]

Jealous

[brisk hinge]

the week i was in albuquerque i think i saw more consecutive sunrises than i’ve ever seen in my life

[delicate silo]

Mm

7 is probably my record lol

[brisk hinge]

but yeah we’re on the ramp earlier and later than everyone else

at this show this weekend i literally stayed on the ramp in an rv

so i could’ve walked around as late as i wanted

[lunar spade]

This is the way

[brisk hinge]

what i do isn’t all fun and games, there’s a fair bit of work involved, but during the actual airshow flying, i don’t have much to do so i shoot photos

[lavish ember]

did someone say corsair

[delicate silo]

Love it

[brisk hinge]

and then we’re working with air bosses and performers all the time, last night i was at a performers party and sat with kyle fowler, redline, and melissa burns

[brisk hinge]

what is that crop/edge design 😭

[lavish ember]

F3A even

[delicate silo]

Colors 💔

[lavish ember]

film edge from my scanner

[lunar spade]

Phone pics sadly

[uneven fog]

I don’t wanna get shlapped for politics so we will agree to disagree

[lunar spade]

But it's a blessing to be a ramp agent on some airshow

[brisk hinge]

go out and volunteer

[delicate silo]

Shoot photos >

[brisk hinge]

be willing to work, and shoot photos secondarily

[uneven fog]

Civil air patrol

[lunar spade]

We need everyone

[uneven fog]

(Don’t do that)

[brisk hinge]

meh

[delicate silo]

Swivel chair patrol

[brisk hinge]

they’re lame

[uneven fog]

I was kidding lol

[lunar spade]

What do they do ?

[delicate silo]

Hey! Thats mean :*(

[uneven fog]

I have distain towards cap

[brisk hinge]

i have better seats than any of the photographers, even official photographers

[delicate silo]

Lucky

[brisk hinge]

they go around and play army/dress up

[uneven fog]

yea but you have to press buttons and plug shit in

[lavish ember]

i've already ramped for a fly in, i don't think i could do an airshow

[brisk hinge]

only before and after the show

[lunar spade]

Oh yeah that suck

[brittle bridge]

real

[delicate silo]

Pretty much honestly

[uneven fog]

all of the old head pilots that fly the cap planes are usually horrible aviators

[brittle bridge]

swivel chair patrol is crazy work

[uneven fog]

I listened to one almost take out a bunch of skydivers one time

[brisk hinge]

real

[delicate silo]

Wild

[lunar spade]

We had a few guys that do it on aircraft carrier so it was pretty well done

[uneven fog]

flew right into the jump area not talking to anyone 😭

[brittle bridge]

mass murder 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[delicate silo]

🔥

[uneven fog]

Nice ass airplanes too

It’s a shame only shitters fly them

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[uneven fog]

G1000 C182s

[delicate silo]

Prob the cadets flying them lol

With 0 hours

[lavish ember]

yeah i was burnt out with just coordinating parking lmao

[brisk hinge]

they’re getting G1000s now???

[lavish ember]

shows would probably vaporize me

[uneven fog]

Yup

[lunar spade]

Worked on a few owner where a pain in the ass

[brisk hinge]

man

[lunar spade]

For a long tile

172 too

[lavish ember]

fun but really stressful

[brisk hinge]

i haven’t seen inside a CAP plane for a while i guess

[lavish ember]

there's more off to the left but i didn't have a wide enough lens

[lunar spade]

I was a bit on the side for the show
Mostly did arrival and departure

[uneven fog]

me and my buddy make an point to go look inside them when they’re on the ramp just because of how mad it makes us that they get G1000s

[uneven fog]

Looks like the typical airport diner ramp on a VFR Saturday morning

[lunar spade]

To be fair that's really practical

[brittle bridge]

ive been in a g1000 c172 it was really nice

[lavish ember]

basically the entirety of the ramp was occupied lmao

[uneven fog]

no it isn’t it’s a waste of money

[brisk hinge]

no way really, had no idea they were nice

[brittle bridge]

yeah yw

[uneven fog]

idk if there’s dues to be in CAP, but even then I’m sure a lot of the funding is taxes

[lavish ember]

i'm just glad there wasn't any tanker ops that day

[lunar spade]

I was in a flight school wit 15 172 with g1000

[brittle bridge]

not tryna get political but does the government shutdown shit affect CAP?

[uneven fog]

oh yea flight school G1000 planes are fine, but CAP G1000s is crazy

[uneven fog]

From the very little I’ve heard I believe so

[brisk hinge]

good

[uneven fog]

I’ll have to tell the skydive pilots that they’re safe to fly for the next week

or longer

[brittle bridge]

ah yes flying a g1000 c172 for free in CAP

[lunar spade]

How strict are the régulation in the us ?

[brisk hinge]

regulations on what?

[uneven fog]

I’d call em fair, a lot of them are written in blood

[lunar spade]

I'm scared from what inm Reading

We seems a bit struct here

[uneven fog]

there’s some stuff that they should be stricter on and there’s other stuff that is kinda over the line

it’s scary how little experience some of these CFIs and Commercial pilots have that went thru these accelerated programs

I think they need to be stricter in that regard

[brisk hinge]

there are stupid parts, i was talking to Bob Carlton today about how he’s been going to battle for years against the FAA because there’s no distinction for jet gliders, and they fall under turbojet rules which are incredibly impractical if not impossible for jet glider pilots to adhere to

[lunar spade]

What time tdi they have ?

[uneven fog]

oh yeah that’s wild

[brisk hinge]

he’s been making progress though

only took multiple FOIA requests and threats to sue

[uneven fog]

A lot of the accelerated CFIs will have been flying for less than a year and will be teaching people to fly

Does his thing not fall under an experimental?

[lunar spade]

Sheech

[brisk hinge]

it is, but a lot of the regulations still apply

or at least used to apply

[lunar spade]

Our cfi had at least 3 years where i worked

[uneven fog]

That’s interesting, does he trailer from show to show or does he repo flight?

I’d assume he has to be doing a trailer

[brisk hinge]

he trailers, but that’s unrelated

[uneven fog]

was just interested if he was whipping show site to show site in a glider

[brisk hinge]

yeah no haha

[uneven fog]

cause that would be the sketchiest of sketchiest ops

[brisk hinge]

Brad Cline is ATC at CLT, so in the briefings he was joking about sending Bob to ATL as a divert to tie them up for a while dealing with the glider

(divert in case of a mishap etc)

Brad is a genuinely fun guy

[uneven fog]

Are most of the air bosses also current FAA controllers

[lunar spade]

Experimental planes pilots are pretty funny from my expérience

[brisk hinge]

a lot of them are yeah

or if not current, past

[uneven fog]

I remember that B-17 P-63 crash I think the Airboss wasn’t a controller at all

And had very little air boss experience

[brisk hinge]

a few are military not FAA, but still

[brisk hinge]

i forget who that was

[lunar spade]

Still sad for thoses two crew

[uneven fog]

I don’t think he was a known guy in the community, just did that show every year

But that was the only one he ever did

I think his dad was the guy that used to do it

[brisk hinge]

i see

[uneven fog]

And then thru nepotism he got the job

And then fucked it all up

[lunar spade]

That's close to the way it's done around here

[brisk hinge]

the pilots should’ve maintained visual still, but yeah

[uneven fog]

Easy to say from the ground though. If I recall the P-63 was directed to follow the P-51 and was never even alerted of the B-17

And they ended up on the same line

[lunar spade]

It's always mishaps lining up

[brisk hinge]

maybe so, been a while since i’ve looked at that incident

[uneven fog]

and then when ur in a low wing in a turn with an airplane off ur outside, you’ll never be able to see em cause of your own wing

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[uneven fog]

Yea me too

[lunar spade]

And there was a lot of incident to look at recently

Pretty bad year in that regard

[uneven fog]

Statistically I don’t think it’s worse than any other recent years

The news just love to report on it now

Gets views

[delicate silo]

Mhm

[delicate silo]

Its a bad year or two for f18s lol

[brisk hinge]

is it bad taste to share photos of this? I'm torn because they're super cool, but I don't want to get someone in trouble with the FAA

but at the same time, the pilot did it (multiple times), so it's kind of on him at that point

@night wing got any plane photos to share?

[night wing]

is a flying 262 with the windmill on it allowed?

idk if the historical accuracy from the museum operator would get me in trouble

[brisk hinge]

sure, no problem with that in this context

is that the 262 that was at OSH this year, from the museum in Virginia?

[night wing]

yeah why I was going, but the person I was traveling with passed away the week after we booked tickets

[brisk hinge]

oh no

[uneven fog]

Was there an inspector or FAA rep at the show

[brisk hinge]

yes, there's no way she didn't see but seemingly didn't care?

i was talking to her beforehand about the 500' line, because i forgot if it was centerline or close edge

i had photography access that not many people had, but it was still a public show and I'm sure i'm not the only one with shots of him at ~200' from the crowd line

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[night wing]

embed failure? haha funny move, laptop photo gallery choose d tier photo with extra Flex

[brisk hinge]

trimotor

[night wing]

you saw that flying?

yeah

[brisk hinge]

yeah took a flight on that a few years ago

[night wing]

damn

where are you based?

[uneven fog]

I think you’re fine to post it then

[night wing]

I'm in the Miami area

[brisk hinge]

central east coast, but I go to a lot of airshows

[night wing]

so Oshkosh is a far trip

[brisk hinge]

I work audio production at airshows all over the eastern half of the US

[brisk hinge]

cool, wanted to make sure

[night wing]

I am mostly busy so it's always Sun N fun

[uneven fog]

Curious as to who it was though

[brisk hinge]

it's a hike, but in the past I've been up there a full month early at times so it's not a quick trip either way

[night wing]

yeah I was up for 9 days

stayed way out in the middle of nowhere

when I told the neighbor I saw a deer standing up looking at me he told me to keep the doors locked and all lights out for the next few nights

[brisk hinge]

(unedited photos) Scott Farnsworth. Right now he's basically at 200' from crowd line

he got closer a couple times (maybe 125-150'), but these are my better pictures

for reference, 500' from crowd line is the centerline of the runway you can see in the background

[night wing]

I gtg

I have to check a few offices and say bye to everyone and drive home

[brisk hinge]

aside from being so close, Scott was so incredibly low on his passes

[night wing]

I got a lot of autographs at Oshkosh

[brisk hinge]

that's fun

[night wing]

I got em on a hat

I was also spending like 1000-2500 a day

I had a blast

[brisk hinge]

got a favorite pilot?

[night wing]

I don't go for the pilots

I go for the experiance and the planes

I like to know their names so I can see their planes again

I like the jet powered waco

jarrod

he flies that

he wrote on my hat

[brisk hinge]

yeah he's cool

[night wing]

I gtg

have a great one

titan team entire team signed my model plane

of titan #1

I will never sell it but how much is something like that worth

?

idk signatures

I like flying in the T-6

but ping me I'll be back later

[brisk hinge]

not much, monetarily

that's more sentimental

[night wing]

nice

[uneven fog]

Never heard of em

[brisk hinge]

he's not a main performer but he does a number of airshows (including internationally, especially central/south america) as well as air racing

i've seen him several times, mostly at oshkosh with the gang of L-39s

I hit this 1/30 shot

[uneven fog]

It’s a bit soft but for 1/30 it’s impressive!

[brisk hinge]

slightly yeah, but for 1/30 on a 150-600 i’m happy

the front of the wing box is sharpest because she’s turning back and forth to taxi

because of that it couldn’t have been much better

[lavish ember]

those dammed physics strikes again lol

[brisk hinge]

real

[delicate silo]

W

[delicate silo]

Www

[delicate silo]

Super cool

[delicate silo]

How do you even

[delicate silo]

Anyone can buy one and get it signed so like

[night wing]

Everyone in college asks too

[delicate silo]

[night wing]

Literally before I read that someone was asking me how I got my land

[delicate silo]

[night wing]

Everyone has conspiracies about how I am able to spend

That's what I'm saying

[delicate silo]

I meant what are you buying to spend that much

Where are you putting it lol

[night wing]

Everything

[night wing]

One of my houses

[delicate silo]

Why

[night wing]

I can

I like planes

[delicate silo]

[night wing]

I have shelves of planes

I gtg

Gotta drive

See ya

[uneven fog]

They’ve finally processed my iPhone 17 order

3 weeks after ordering it

[brisk hinge]

wooo

[wary wren]

I doubt anyone would care

Plenty of people took photos on the day

[brisk hinge]

doesn't always make it good taste to post, but yeah

[wary wren]

If the pilot didn’t want to cause problems for himself he would have obeyed the law

I see no problem with him getting dinged for safety violations

[uneven fog]

Generational bad take

[dark hare]

Ooo

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo

[delicate silo]

which is that

[lavish ember]

weird lookin d850

[brittle bridge]

real

[brittle bridge]

z6 and 28/2.8

[delicate silo]

phone resolution of a potato

erm

why

lol

[brittle bridge]

iPhone 14 Pro moment

[brittle bridge]

smallish for my trip

and usable cheap video

[delicate silo]

oh fair enough

how much was it

[lavish ember]

i've seen boxes of rocks with more DR

[brittle bridge]

$674 for the 60k sc body

[delicate silo]

i see

[brittle bridge]

$170 for the 28?

[delicate silo]

cars

[brittle bridge]

F1?

[delicate silo]

yes

[lunar spade]

great race this weekend

[delicate silo]

french]

[wary wren]

So violating minimums is fine now

And it’s a bad thing when someone gets in trouble for it

[merry mortar]

were you at COTA?

[delicate silo]

yeah

[merry mortar]

what turns?

I got these at 19

[uneven fog]

Situational

[delicate silo]

t12 - 15 I shot

[uneven fog]

General aviation is one thing

[wary wren]

It’s a fucking airshow

The definition of luxury flying

It does not need to be happening

[uneven fog]

airshows yea post whatever

If ur sitting up on a mountain and some fighter pilot comes by and does something that they probably shouldn’t

You shouldn’t post it

Cause that’s how you ruin it for everyone

[merry mortar]

I did 19 on saturday and T9 on sunday

[wary wren]

If the pilot can’t follow his minimums, then that’s his problem

[delicate silo]

howd you like those?

get much action?

[wary wren]

They exist for a reason

[uneven fog]

his problem but doesn’t mean you have to go plaster it everywhere

[merry mortar]

19 was nice and close to the action and you could see the pit entry but I wasnt there on raceday, T9 was amazing on raceday, you could see turns 6-12 clearly alsong with the whole back straight

these are from T9, still nice and close

[delicate silo]

I stood at t19 on friday, its amazing the speed they carry

[wary wren]

why not? i'm not in the military, i never signed any secrecy agreement

and it's not some photog's job to cover for a dumbass pilot

[merry mortar]

I know man it was insane

What a race too, great weekend all around

[uneven fog]

I clearly am not gonna get through to you

[wary wren]

you're the one defending breaking minimums for fun

[delicate silo]

yeah good race

[uneven fog]

way to just completely put words in my mouth 😭

[delicate silo]

had fun

[wary wren]

the least you can do is explain why it's not a problem

[uneven fog]

llama and this other guy just having a conversation about cars is funny

get the car talk out of my airplane channel!

[wary wren]

oh whatever, it came up organically

[delicate silo]

NEVER

cars & planes

are likke similar

[uneven fog]

no I’m pretty sure the channel just says plane photography

I see nothing about cars

[delicate silo]

we are like a community !

not exclusive to aero plan

[wary wren]

the channel doesn't say anything about pedantry either, but here we are

[uneven fog]

Mr serious over here

no more Mr nice guy ‼️

[wary wren]

next time i'm at an airshow i'll make sure to refrain from talking to anyone about non-airplanes

might offend the chattering class

[uneven fog]

I’ll get back to you

[delicate silo]

whole essay ahh

[merry mortar]

bros mad for what

also F1 cars have winds so thats like in the same family

[uneven fog]

I’m not mad I just joke around

Also what is this part 65 fandom 😭

[merry mortar]

I'm trying to finish getting my A&P

[uneven fog]

ah

piston go up piston go down

Bang

Power

propeller go spinny

[merry mortar]

The powerplant section is what has me cooked

I have the A but no P

[uneven fog]

is it just piston stuff or do you guys do turbines too

[merry mortar]

Bofum

A&P mechanics fix everything like all the electric, hjydraulcis, A/C, engines, etc

We gotta know the whole plane

[uneven fog]

Yea I didn’t know if there were add ons like there are for pilots

[merry mortar]

nah you just get it

you can specialize but you do that through your company

I wanna do avionics

[uneven fog]

Yea

That’s where the money is

[brisk hinge]

avionics are stupid expensive

[uneven fog]

Yea

I think 10k just for rhe GTN650

Which is like the lowest end garmin gps right now

Still supported

You can get the GNS430s for really cheap

But they’re not supported anymore and they’re just old

[uneven fog]

Acting like that’s not typical @delicate silo

[delicate silo]

levs average shot:

[brittle bridge]

put this on jetphotos

[delicate silo]

Real

[delicate silo]

What happen to d750

[brittle bridge]

Sold

[delicate silo]

How much

Where

[brittle bridge]

$400

to my mom

[delicate silo]

Why keep d850 now

When z6

[lavish ember]

cause he still needs a good camera

[vital island]

Cuz he's stupid

[delicate silo]

Z6 good, yeah?

[lavish ember]

first gen no

[brittle bridge]

Ay shut

Z6 af is great

I used it for volleyball

[delicate silo]

Me when z8 🤑

[brittle bridge]

Mid

[delicate silo]

Die

[brittle bridge]

D850 the goat

[delicate silo]

Mid

D750 better value

[brittle bridge]

Mid

[delicate silo]

Prob got no good photos on 850

45mp is delusional

No difference

[acoustic oxide]

[delicate silo]

Rip

[brisk hinge]

at least they're doing refunds or 2026 tickets

[acoustic oxide]

Yeah true

[brisk hinge]

WONG only promised a "discount" on next years tickets, and you have to scan your 2025 ticket at the gate to claim that discount

to be fair the show did go on without the blues, and it was great, but still

they're very vague

[brittle bridge]

[uneven fog]

Me when I lie

[delicate silo]

nuh uh

[uneven fog]

first mistake was attempting to attend an airdot event

Maybe the shutdown will make airdot realize that you need more than 4 civilian performers and 2 military performers to have a good event

[uneven fog]

iPhone 17 finally came

[acoustic oxide]

W

[sage cape]

@dusk spindle some MH60 crew liked my shots

[dusk spindle]

Fuckkk yeah

[rocky coyote]

Oh shit that’s sick

That a coin or a medallion?

[uneven fog]

Hercs and foliage

[delicate silo]

lev cooked again

[sage cape]

1/10000 shutter

[brisk hinge]

i'd say 1/800 if i had to guess

@uneven fog what SS

[delicate silo]

Pretty close i imagine

Could even be lower 1/400 - 1/600 depending on rotation speed

[brisk hinge]

i'm second guessing and want to say 1/500-1/600, but i'm sticking to 1/800

probably on approach so you're probably right

[delicate silo]

1/1500 is way high

[delicate silo]

Yeah

Ive only shot c130s three times so

[uneven fog]

Guys before I reveal the shutter

Just know that I had like 6 passes and that was the fastest ss I shot at

I dropped it down

[uneven fog]

1/400

[brisk hinge]

man

[uneven fog]

I bet they were pretty much power idle

[brisk hinge]

1/100

maybe 1/80

[uneven fog]

You are off ur game 💔

[brisk hinge]

😭

[uneven fog]

1/125

[brisk hinge]

what was it

close enough

[uneven fog]

Yes

[sage cape]

1/100 is full on a landing C130J

And that ain’t full!

Not even full props I will not be liking this post

[uneven fog]

I don’t think you even follow me on ig bruh 😭

[uneven fog]

Me when I lie

Actually that’s an H

Nvm

[uneven fog]

This was 1/100 tho

[sage cape]

Yeh I do

[sage cape]

On a four prop

[uneven fog]

Yea I realized it was an H

[uneven fog]

Oh

Preesh

[delicate silo]

Called it.

[uneven fog]

@brittle bridge bro bullied the guy out of the server

Bro said people stealing his stuff

Maybe he purposely makes them soft as a deterrent too

[brittle bridge]

what

[uneven fog]

In gallery comments

[brittle bridge]

oh that guy?

I just told him the watermark was hella distracting 😭😭

can’t take an opinion

💀

[uneven fog]

Shit was so soft

For a plane on the ground especially

[brittle bridge]

I wasn’t even talking about that

@uneven fog

💔

that watermark is just devious

Clarity slider go brrrrt

[delicate silo]

Water mark is diabolical

Nobody stealing them 💔

(I use a watermark) (I shouldn't be talking)

[delicate silo]

If he had posted a half decent photo hwre he would've only been clowned on for the watermark

[brittle bridge]

😭

[delicate silo]

He managed to find the worst photo possible

[vital island]

is there a tracking app for trains

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/a330neo-airbus-takeoff-airplane-gif-7174410983673829180

[delicate silo]

Thats a different flavor of your mom had Tylenol

[uneven fog]

I’m gonna use this one

[delicate silo]

Your best bet is facebook

[delicate silo]

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/us-navy-f-18-sea-hawk-helicopter-crash-in-south-china-sea-what-caused-the-accidents-near-uss-nimitz-article-153056597

F18s love salt water

[delicate silo]

Glass in engine not good

[viscid elbow]

What happened?

[delicate silo]

Window shattered on approach abd glass went into engine

[dusk spindle]

Old ahh photo

[sage cape]

clipped the rotor just delete your account

[uneven fog]

Clarity slider goes br

[brisk hinge]

😭

rip

[brisk hinge]

Blues’ homecoming show is cancelled

[uneven fog]

Yup

I bet along with the rest of their season

[thorny warren]

Fire pic bro, but i’d maybe make a bit less bright 😭

Flashbanged myself opening it in a dark room lmao

[uneven fog]

Cool to just be sitting on my hotel balcony and see all this traffic coming in and out

[dark hare]

me when the c32b

[uneven fog]

Zero idea why they were there

But

I’m not complaining

[lavish loom]

nice

[delicate silo]

Where

[uneven fog]

Oceana in September

[lavish ember]

isn't that the whole point

[uneven fog]

Pretty much

[brisk hinge]

a UPS MD-11 crashed in Kentucky

[uneven fog]

Looks really bad

Right into the ford manufacturing plant

That’s not even where it crashed either

It dragged through that building

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[lavish ember]

ironically a ups loading center

[uneven fog]

That one is?

[uneven fog]

3 crew confirmed

[lavish ember]

maybe not a loading center exactly but its a big ups solutions center

[brisk hinge]

lol

[lavish ember]

pilot, co and who? loadmaster?

or jump seat

there's no FE station on the mds

[uneven fog]

Think a jumpseater

I think for a flight that long it’s a captain and 2 FOs

Looks like they’ve been able to battle the fire a bit

[delicate silo]

RIP

[brittle bridge]

yikes

[spare lantern]

Oh my DAYS I can finally talk in here

Ffs

[dark hare]

💀

took ts guy over a month

[rocky coyote]

Heard about this, that’s a hell of a blaze

[uneven fog]

Captain Steve is such a clown

[uneven fog]

Juan brown has a great video up

Worth the watch

Unlike captain clowns

[delicate silo]

Fire

I'm jealous I want to shoot thoaw

[flint smelt]

@sage cape should I risk getting spotted by MP’s? Army is doing training on Ford Island.

[sage cape]

hmmm

Fuck it

Free country or whatever

[flint smelt]

👍 good answer. I’ll see if i can find a spot or smth.

Lwky just might ask a MP if I can take photos.

I dont think they care, as long as I don’t take pictures of any buildings.

[sage cape]

Chopper ops are fucking sick

[sage cape]

Yeh sounds about right

I should have a spot lined up next week to get some Blackhawks fast roping

Should be mint

[flint smelt]

Send the 160th here 🙏🥺

[sage cape]

Honest

Fuck i love the soar man

😊😊

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[flint smelt]

I can only wish 🥺

[lavish ember]

i've only seen them in the wild twice

once unsupervised and airside

and once ripping over my campsite

[delicate silo]

C130ntrying not to stall

[lavish ember]

i gotta catch their blackhawks at some point

[sage cape]

The sexiest

[sage cape]

130kts is regularly comfortable for a c130

[sage cape]

Ive got a couple shots of them hanging in a break room at Joint Base Lewis McCord

[lavish ember]

thats cheating cause its jblm lol

[delicate silo]

Fast helicopter

[sage cape]

🫩🫩🫩

[delicate silo]

[sage cape]

can’t even be correct

[delicate silo]

[sage cape]

Fuck youre an idiot

[hollow halo]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-arabic-arab-muslim-gif-18401301

[rare vector]

Thats sick lol

[hollow halo]

that’s been around forever

[vital island]

since 1988

[hollow halo]

so forever

[rare vector]

Ye never seen it before

[brittle bridge]

Yeah d750 peasant

[delicate silo]

i love you too twin

[uneven fog]

wow

[wary wren]

It’s funny

I’m in two plane-photo groups, and the other one just finished organizing some food deliveries for the local ATC

And then there’s this shithole

[uneven fog]

Mind you there’s a lot of international people in this one + children who don’t have money to spend themselves

Pilot fb groups I’m in have been doing it a bunch

[winged ruin]

Just got offered a tour of airbus in France if Im ever there…. Bruh

[brisk hinge]

this is just 14yos

[winged ruin]

What food we grabbing for the local ATC?

[uneven fog]

Pizzas are common, I’ve also seen people do like chic fil a

[wary wren]

This was pizza afaik

[delicate silo]

i saw some peope do that

[dark hare]

real

horribly backlit old photo from last year

there was such big pole in the photo too

tried removing in ms paint

[uneven fog]

Ski-130

That’s a level photo btw, mfer ripped one of the shortest approaches I’ve ever seen

[brisk hinge]

that’s so cool

[rocky coyote]

Do we fw with drones and other remote aircraft in here?

[delicate silo]

tuff head on

[delicate silo]

erm big ones

[rocky coyote]

What about the small fpv racing drones that go ridiculously fast and can pull off extremely technical flight manoeuvres?

[delicate silo]

erm

[rocky coyote]

They’re not planes but neither are helicopters

[dark hare]

yes

i only have a tiny 4ch foamie

no mnoey 😔

[delicate silo]

Are they tuff

[rocky coyote]

I believe so

[delicate silo]

Send

[rocky coyote]

I don’t have photos of any I think I’m getting a patch from a military drone racing team

[delicate silo]

Erm

[uneven fog]

I was standing offset too, they just were whipping the short approach

This is from that same pass

Once they rolled out on final

[brisk hinge]

extra 330sc went down in florida

looks like someone related to patty wagstaff but not a main airshow performer

[uneven fog]

At a show?

[brisk hinge]

no thankfully

sounds like they were just practicing at a local airport

[flint smelt]

@sage cape welp I tried. They had dudes everywhere.

Figured so.

[sage cape]

🫩

Boring ass

[flint smelt]

Im going to Vegas next week, so hopefully I can catch some stuff.

[sage cape]

Nellis lighting

The aircraft there are second to none thiugh

[flint smelt]

About the same as Hawaii.

[uneven fog]

I found him in a random TikTok comment section 😭

[delicate silo]

Lll

Lol

[lavish loom]

i mean id travel there just for that

[wary wren]

The image of some absolute butterball sitting in a comments section typing “SOFT” will always entertain me

[delicate silo]

Watermark skull

[dark hare]

real

thats a really cool opportunity

[uneven fog]

Yall think that once Canada gets their F-35s the snowbirds will start using CF-18s?

[dark hare]

doubt

[lavish ember]

Why would they tbh

[dark hare]

snowbirds are gonna use m345

from the italians

[lavish ember]

That'll also replace the ct-155s right

[dark hare]

rcaf was actually looking at the t7a redhawk for those

m345/6 and t50 were potential options as well

[uneven fog]

Cause legacies are fucking sick

[dark hare]

its canada we are too poor to maintain them

it would be sick to have them tho

theres a reason why they never managed to repaint some of the hornet demo aircraft

ive found painted parts of the demo hornets since 2016 still on hornets that fly today

like the 2022 and 2024 hornets are still painted

the 2016 ones fuel tank still exists

[uneven fog]

Ah good point

I forgot about that

[delicate silo]

friends of army aviation

stuart?

[acoustic oxide]

Yeah

[delicate silo]

w did you go on it?

[acoustic oxide]

No sadly not

[delicate silo]

rip its super fun

[acoustic oxide]

Maybe next time how much was it

[delicate silo]

idk i did it last year

[acoustic oxide]

Oh nice

Were you at Stuart this year?

[brisk hinge]

a family member flew on it a few shows ago and loved it

they flew very aggressively

and he was in the door gunner seat which was cool

[delicate silo]

nope

[delicate silo]

was so smooooth imo they did some negative g and stuff super fun was super smoooth though

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[delicate silo]

great people

was scared to go on it cause never been on helicopter but they fixed me lol

[brittle bridge]

@delicate silo

[delicate silo]

Hmm?

I know its bambu but what is it

[brittle bridge]

1:14 scale models of A10 and F14

[delicate silo]

F15

You print them? Or how does it work

[brittle bridge]

Yea

[brittle bridge]

you back the project

you get models

you print models

[delicate silo]

What project lol

[brittle bridge]

the models themselves

it’s crowdfunding

so you pay $xx to help support the project (the plane model) and then at the end of the promotion period you receive the model

kinda like patreon

[delicate silo]

That's idiotic

Who is crowd funding a 3d model

[brittle bridge]

People who want to support a creator??

[delicate silo]

Of something that all ready exists

[delicate silo]

Nobody cares about creators lol

They get enough money from bambu

[wary wren]

such a nice tail on that one

[brisk hinge]

i'm sad i probably won't get to see a harrier fly again

probably 10 years ago a guy would regularly fly his privately owned harrier at a nearby airshow

that was so cool

[uneven fog]

Looking like the northeast with those colors

[viscid elbow]

it looks like it could use a raising of the balcks inn the first one. the second one seems like it has a linear gradient. i feel its a bit overdone.. but maybe im wrong

[brisk hinge]

yeah editing could use a bit of work

[lavish ember]

thats just mil spotter editing for ig

[sage cape]

250 years or something

[sage cape]

shit js tuff

[delicate silo]

Lucky

Fix editing tho

[dusk spindle]

😑

[wary wren]

Lol

Someone posts something interesting and out of the norm, and this is the result

[delicate silo]

cant have a super cool opportunity and then goof up the editing

[brittle bridge]

Looks great

[uneven fog]

Do you ever have anything positive to say?

If you hate this chat so much just leave…

[wary wren]

If you want a hugbox, just say so

[uneven fog]

I’d prefer if you just stfu ❤️

[wary wren]

And i’d prefer that people give half a fuck about something other than the dullest, most documentary crap they can pull off an SD card

But neither of us is getting what we want

[delicate silo]

people post pretty cool shots here

not the "dullest, most documentary crap"

[lavish loom]

Im travelling to london in spring, what are some good airbases with pretty frequent activity i could visit?

[dusk spindle]

this made me lol

[wary wren]

It’s not like the raw file goes away after you click “export”

[brittle bridge]

I always keep my raws

[delicate silo]

Never deleted a raw

lol

I've kept everything ive ever shot

[wary wren]

Storage is so cheap that one might as well

[vital island]

4tb HDD for 24 bucks when microcenter opened in Indy

Such a steal

[uneven fog]

Idk the distance but Lakenheath is like the main English base

[delicate silo]

Tell that to my like 8tbs lol

[lavish loom]

1h 52mins i think i can plan that in

[uneven fog]

They consider that like a weekend getaway in Europe

[brisk hinge]

europeans are so funny man

[thorny warren]

Thanks brodie

[delicate silo]

@lavish loom lakenheath preferably on a friday and then mach loop

ive only been to lakenheath didnt have time for mach loop

[lavish ember]

Its the "oh yeah I went to Spain for the afternoon" type shit lmao

[brisk hinge]

why on a friday?

from what i’ve seen, Mach Loop tends to be more busy at the start of the week, I’d think Lakenheath would follow

[delicate silo]

friday they do quick climbs

and stuff

just better ive heard

example: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Jn4Xdb6R0k?si=7EsNrrr2_5bd9UP6&t=10163

they might also do f15 engine tests or whatever idk name

[lavish loom]

mach loop is too far sadly

[lavish loom]

i am a European

german

i dont have a problem with driving even 5 hours for the mach loop, my family does

[lavish loom]

ill monitor it on radar until its time to go, see which day tends to be the best

[delicate silo]

real id drive longer

[delicate silo]

i recommend getting there at 6:40 - 6:50am and then they left again at 4pm for me

they seem to be on basically a shedule similar to that most days

they left before 7 when i was there

[lavish loom]

thats a bit early

ill come around 3 then

[delicate silo]

fridays seem always too be quick climbs

theres 3 or 4 great viewing areas too around the fence

some dedicated one is just a field

[brisk hinge]

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ADrH9HCfo/

Fighterjets Inc is bringing an F-100 to the airshow circuit next season

[delicate silo]

lets go

https://youtube.com/shorts/7VObjB0kgbQ?si=iuN_4HfKRIYZdGvH great

[dusk spindle]

Old ass news bruh 😭

[delicate silo]

mb bruh

:D

[spare lantern]

CRJ momen

[delicate silo]

I don't think he likes the crj

[dark hare]

I like crjs

But they labd so silly

[wary wren]

“Point it down and hope”

[uneven fog]

The CRJ-2 is insane

Turbine airplanes are not supposed to approach like that 😭

[wary wren]

“Hey, my shoe’s untied!”

[dark hare]

Crj moment

[uneven fog]

“Look, a penny!”

[brisk hinge]

family member who is a ramp rat

[dark hare]

lmaoo

crj moment

[brisk hinge]

he's on a rant 😭

[brittle bridge]

gah damn

[delicate silo]

Crj hate

[dark hare]

Cue the crj rant:

[delicate silo]

shadows slider not found error 404

[wary wren]

nice fall colors

[sage cape]

Greenest HUD

[lavish loom]

lies

[delicate silo]

BRO HOW

WHERE

I WANT RHAT

SO BAD

[uneven fog]

Oceana

[uneven fog]

Such a silly airplane

[dusk spindle]

[delicate silo]

Bro its so dark

[dark hare]

whyso dark