Plane Photography

[delicate silo]

[dark hare]

helicopter

[delicate silo]

W

[dark hare]

Overedited to shit sky though ig

[delicate silo]

They clearly don't care

[dark hare]

fr

[delicate silo]

I need to edit my shots from this year lol

[brisk hinge]

i can't relate

[delicate silo]

Have a few good tbird ones

[brisk hinge]

i get my photos edited as soon as i can

[dark hare]

i saw the tbirds at my first airshow

[delicate silo]

I get some

Others I leave for months

[delicate silo]

W

[dark hare]

havent posted photos for a while too

eeehhhhhg

gah damn brug the rain in vancouver crazy

[uneven fog]

Be fr brother 💔

[delicate silo]

im peak

so id win

[uneven fog]

This is the issue with aviation photography

[brisk hinge]

yes

!cars

[mental ore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/728905379274162180/1261715727874920661/Screenshot_2024-07-13_at_18.07.30.png

[brisk hinge]

same thing

[uneven fog]

You either get a really really cool picture but it’s just a shitty airplane

Or you catch a cool airplane and it’s just a mid picture

[brisk hinge]

i completely agree - as someone who has hundreds of "airplane on blue sky" photos

[uneven fog]

Like if there were clouds in the back for this

Would have been shockwave city

[dark hare]

fr

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[delicate silo]

thousands *

[brisk hinge]

true

[lavish ember]

how about the secret third option of "shit plane, shit picture"

Cause thats something I seem to be an expert on

[shy horizon]

the out of focus parts feel weird

[delicate silo]

Yeah

[dark hare]

Ai lookin

[shy horizon]

oh btw
where can I find this?

i searched the internet and i found the site that makes this but there's no place to see the actual photos, do i need to buy some online magazine?

[dark hare]

Go onto skies mag website and find the magazine issues

They have magazine archives

Free online

[uneven fog]

I might be a hater

[dark hare]

how many messages did you have

my messages were cooked

[delicate silo]

My top was

Im.not a hater

[uneven fog]

Like 8k

Not many

[dark hare]

💀

[uneven fog]

Chronically online final boss

Did some editing

[dark hare]

real

im not even on discord that much tbh i think the bigger thing was the fact that i dont vc and i also send a bunch of messages instead of one big ass message

10% of those messages were probably just spam in dms n shit

[uneven fog]

Yea me too

[delicate silo]

I had like 50hrs of vc lol

[delicate silo]

Too many

[dark hare]

my friend knows someone with like

460k?

[delicate silo]

Bro how

Thats over 1k messages a day

Chronically online

[dark hare]

real

when shit gets real in the gc then we typing way more fr

this gc was created in sept 2024 iirc

[brittle bridge]

I wonder what advions is

[dark hare]

@brittle bridge

ng models new release

[vital island]

wtf is that

[dark hare]

cartoon

theres 3 more

[brittle bridge]

fire

[brisk hinge]

Greg Biffle (retired NASCAR driver, private pilot, friend of cletus mcfarland, and generally a great guy)’s citation crashed on return to the airport after engine trouble

6 on board, no survivors. unconfirmed who was aboard but people are saying it was him and his wife and kids

[uneven fog]

Gonna be interesting to see the investigation on this one

Looks like a pretty big oscillation occurring pretty much instantly after departure

5k vsi and 140 knots

Not a great place to be

[brittle bridge]

yeah just saw this on instagram

[brittle bridge]

damn

[delicate silo]

RIP

[dusk maple]

.

[crystal burrow]

Some really nice AMS views from my connection today

Oh, and this beauty of course

[languid whale]

Very first spots on my new D750

[brisk hinge]

jetphotos crop

defeatcry

[uneven fog]

That ain’t even JP crop that’s just a bad crop 💔

[brisk hinge]

true!

[wary wren]

elevator is cut

glad you like the camera though

[delicate silo]

d750 is peak

[uneven fog]

Nikon camera and peak in the same sentence 💔

Tgis will be good

Llama, praetor, cobre all Nikon users

[brisk hinge]

hater

[uneven fog]

Oh my god Peyton too

I am outnumbered

Behind enemy lines

[brisk hinge]

yes

[uneven fog]

Oh my god banana was the last one

Natu and Nelson all I got 🙏

[languid whale]

W ragebait

[languid whale]

Bad framing

Ngl

Before this I shot using film and before that using a point and shoot

My skill set isn’t quite refined

[dark hare]

Crop konda ass but wtv

[delicate silo]

my photos > your photos

so nikon > canon

[uneven fog]

Interesting take not sure we have enough evidence for this claim

The May 2025 Fort Lauderdale Raptor incident does not count.

[delicate silo]

personal biased

[delicate silo]

lol my 2024 raptor shots dont count either

[rotund heath]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSeVBS6Duxu/

jplusonephoto

Years ago, I was glued to my computer screen, reading articles and watching videos showing the retired F-117 still flying around the desert. Today, while perched up on the rocks, my heart nearly leaped out of my chest as “2 Nighthawks!” was shouted out. So unbelievably happy to have seen this!

#F117 #jetsinthewild #aviation #militaryaviatio...

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Plane will always be cool

[brisk hinge]

yeah that’s so cool

i think i’ve been there once

[dusk spindle]

I will not condone Nikon hate, my d850 served me wonderfully

[delicate silo]

[sage cape]

tf California even about

broken ass stallion on the highway

[delicate silo]

💀

[sage cape]

Didn’t take long to find some cool shit

[delicate silo]

Face reveal in the big 25

[sage cape]

Huey reveal

My face was already in the Vertical Magazine

[uneven fog]

Just had a tear run down my leg

[sage cape]

Imperial county airport wins again

least relevant location ever

[uneven fog]

Do you take pictures of airplanes or nah

just helis

[delicate silo]

Just belis

Aus doesn't have planes

[rocky coyote]

Yeah we mostly ride cassowary’s and kangaroos

[delicate silo]

They're upside down so planes cant fly duh

(Don't ask how helis fly) (magic)

[wary wren]

They call it the Jesus Nut for a reason

[brisk hinge]

they disgust the ground so much that it repels helicopters away

airplanes fly using the laws of physics and aerodynamics, helicopters just beat the air into submission

[delicate silo]

Fr

[rocky coyote]

This is the best explanation of how aircraft fly I’ve ever seen. Replace “airplanes” with “fixed wing” and helicopters with “rotary” and it’ll be perfect

Fixed wing aircraft (airplanes) fly using the laws of physics and aerodynamics, rotary aircraft (helicopters, drones, etc) just beat the air into submission.

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[rocky coyote]

That was collaboration

Good work us!

[uneven fog]

Genuinely why is this downvoted 3 times 💔

[dark hare]

Ong

[uneven fog]

just getting shafted

[dark hare]

Photo moment

Plem

[brittle bridge]

js too dark twin

[brisk hinge]

it’s not a good photo

[wary wren]

neat to see the vapor, but the plane's moving away from the camera, the light is bad, and the crop is deficient

[brisk hinge]

!cars

[mental ore]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/728905379274162180/1261715727874920661/Screenshot_2024-07-13_at_18.07.30.png

[sage cape]

love both but helis are so much cooler to photograph

The opportunities for them are unmatched

in Australia anyway

PRAYING for cloud tomorrow so I don’t have to take boring sky shots of the F5s

[uneven fog]

Shoulda seen the lighting I was working with 💔

[brittle bridge]

+5 exposure when

[uneven fog]

standby 1

Nvm the photo has just disappeared from my Lightroom

[brittle bridge]

absolute cinema

[uneven fog]

Peak.

[brittle bridge]

playing fortnite rn bro

flying planes

recreating battle of midway

[uneven fog]

I can’t make the plane level cause I suck at tracking high speeds 💔

[brisk hinge]

dude

what

😭

[uneven fog]

Peak.

You just don’t know high quality editing when you see it

[brisk hinge]

to go from whatever that was to a final edit that’s underexposed is…something 😭 😭

[uneven fog]

That’s not the raw lol 😭😭😭

[brisk hinge]

ok good

[uneven fog]

That was +5 exposure

[brisk hinge]

i was going to be very upset with you if that’s what you’re out there taking

[uneven fog]

Nuh uh

With that lighting though

Terrible

[brisk hinge]

not ideal!

[uneven fog]

Clouds had us blessed up the next day though

Kept the blue angels grounded though

[delicate silo]

eh waht even is avi photography

at tis point

[lavish loom]

why not keep this angle

[uneven fog]

Yea that’s how im keeping it

But

I was saying if someone told me to level it

I can’t

[brisk hinge]

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-news/aviation-safety/garmin-emergency-autoland-deployed-first-time/

this is so cool

[delicate silo]

w

[dusk spindle]

Is bro going to holtville

[dark hare]

Yeah

I remember a few months ago a hondajet also had emergency autoland

https://youtu.be/eijEPsSdqg8?si=_hW1itivCJLFYlh2

[brisk hinge]

yeah

[dark hare]

I like that they used the same voice for it as well as it being an older ai voice

I think it catches the attention better

And if this ai voice they use can be normalized in the future if others also make autoland then itll be a lot easier to identify perhals

[sage cape]

who the fuck are you and how do you niche

[brisk hinge]

what happened to his account 💀

[sage cape]

Holtville is on the radar but not this trip

[brisk hinge]

he was just here

[sage cape]

who was it

[delicate silo]

...

Deleted

He was here 30mins ago

Lol

[delicate silo]

I forgot

[brisk hinge]

nate maybe?

[sage cape]

I’m Nate

[brisk hinge]

i reloaded and it’s gone

[vital island]

interesting

[uneven fog]

That was Nelson

[brisk hinge]

ah yeah, different N name

[dark hare]

whos deleted user

i swear i just saw this person like a couple hours ago

then bro got incinerated

[brisk hinge]

nelson

and yeah he was just here

[dark hare]

rip

https://tenor.com/view/orange-cat-gets-flung-and-explodes-orange-cat-funny-cat-meme-explodes-gif-10706110874965244466

[brittle bridge]

@brisk hinge what we think

[brisk hinge]

ok

that’s not your design is it?

[brittle bridge]

no

lmao

I modified some of it just cuz of my current materials

[brisk hinge]

thought so

looks neat

[brittle bridge]

I’m not that good at building

I’ve only fallen off once

[brisk hinge]

lol

[brittle bridge]

landed with one heart 💔

[delicate silo]

nelson rip

[delicate silo]

us flag genius

[brittle bridge]

real

[uneven fog]

No high school diploma and breaking it

[brittle bridge]

Look how many times this c172 has circled the airport (goes over my house too)

hearing it every time is getting kinda annoying

🙏

[uneven fog]

Bro thinks we won’t find him from that

[brittle bridge]

find me

[uneven fog]

bro wants me or sum 🤔

[rocky coyote]

Bala doxed himself

[brisk hinge]

not a true plane nerd

defeatcry

[delicate silo]

Fr

People complain but i enjoy it

[brisk hinge]

the sound of a single-engine, the smell of avgas, its so good

[dark hare]

if its cloudy id tweak tho

hearing but haviing no sight

[delicate silo]

Lol

[lavish ember]

i fear this d3 may in fact out live me

[delicate silo]

Ive taken like 50k on my d750 in like 18 months

Lol

[brisk hinge]

i've done 50k in 6 months

well, 49k

[lavish ember]

now my lack of a true tele is gonna bite me in the ass for a little bit lol

[brisk hinge]

rip

[lavish ember]

but thats ok, i've got "oops more mp" to play with

or something like that

[delicate silo]

Its ur job

[brisk hinge]

it's not unfortunately

[delicate silo]

Well you go to airshow for job

[brisk hinge]

i've made $0 from photography

[delicate silo]

Sound

Yeh

[brisk hinge]

yeah sound production is

[delicate silo]

You get to go for job tho

So w

[brisk hinge]

true

[delicate silo]

I do like 10k per airshow tbh

[brisk hinge]

woof

i'm not quite that trigger-happy

[delicate silo]

Hehe

[brisk hinge]

and i've also slowed down

[delicate silo]

Yeah

Blue sky pics become repetitive

[brisk hinge]

once you have a picture of an upside down yellow plane, there's only so many other angles of an upside down yellow plane that are still interesting

[delicate silo]

I really enjoy getting sunset pics

[delicate silo]

Fr

[brisk hinge]

i'm excited to try more night show shots as I get better lenses (300/2.8) and a camera with better iso performance

[delicate silo]

Fourth of July flyovers there's a place here you can look down at them flyover so I'll do that this year

[brisk hinge]

neat

[lavish ember]

memorial day (bolder boulder) is the better flyover

the 4th is iffy, they may or may not fly over folsom

you could try hiking grand lake and hoping they fly low but thats also a crapshoot

[delicate silo]

One of the places

I forgot

I don't know I'll go and try

They did in 24 and 25

[lavish ember]

the view from just outside the stadium

not bad not great

i'm pretty sure you'd have to climb a flatiron to get the looking down shot

idk i'd have to ask andrew how he shot last year

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKuZkdSOG6Y/?igsh=MTJ2aWZwNGZnNGFncA==

andrewkelly.photos

Memorial Day flight merging onto US-36 East. Shot from about 3 miles away

#120fs #140wg #f16 #fighterjet #fighterpilot #coang #militaryaviationphotography

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thats the table mesa gate so further south than like, flagstaff

maybe ncar?

ik he's also running 800mm so he's shooting a bit different than us plebs

[rocky coyote]

The smell of walking across the tarmac between the plane and the terminal is elite

[sage cape]

600 on a crop sensor is more 🤷

quick edits from the AZ boys this morning

[brisk hinge]

first one is cool

(second one too but i like the first more)

[sage cape]

yeh second needs a bit of a better edit

Also caught this fat bitch

[lavish ember]

It might be an R7, I honestly cant remember

Ik its a 200-800

[sage cape]

how canon RF feels having two of the most overpriced telephotos on the market

pure plastic and the 200-800 isn’t even that sharp

[brisk hinge]

imagine

[dark hare]

Real

[delicate silo]

second one is FIRE

[dark hare]

Chunk

[dark hare]

Yum

[uneven fog]

JP8 > avgas any day

[uneven fog]

This is rookie number

[uneven fog]

Such a cool plane

[sage cape]

It is

not even tryna hate but I feel like all your photos are underexposed

[uneven fog]

Yea lowk a lot of em are

My monitor be hella dark

So when I edit they look properly exposed

But when I export they don’t cause my phone or whatever ur viewing on isn’t hella dark

[sage cape]

yeh I feel that my monitor is always hella over saturated so I try to adjust for jt

I think often I over adjust

[uneven fog]

Those are also like a year old and was my fourth month of photography

[sage cape]

What camera/lens cause that’s hella sharp

[uneven fog]

R50 and the 100-400

RF100-400

[uneven fog]

Why does everyone just know Andrew

[lavish ember]

not sure

he gets around or something idk

[uneven fog]

He do

[delicate silo]

HOW

HOW DO YOU TAKE SOMETHING THIS PERFECT

[uneven fog]

Rahhh Christmas METARs

[lavish loom]

damn

wow

[lavish loom]

i saw this one recently

fucking insane

[delicate silo]

Fire

[delicate silo]

Looks heavily cooked with dehaze tho lol the sky

[brisk hinge]

yeah that one is cooked

[uneven fog]

Yes needs some work

[brittle bridge]

its not straight

[sage cape]

bigger problems than that

[rocky coyote]

And neither are you

[brittle bridge]

😘

[rocky coyote]

So where are my mod perms in your server? It is Christmas

[brittle bridge]

Where’s my z6iii

[rocky coyote]

It’s with you in spirit sweety

[delicate silo]

Restricted airspace is restricted airspace

[sage cape]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnKUE9iZ7P/?igsh=MW8wNm5xcDhrbzlkNQ==

skiesmag

We’re excited to finally share the winners of our highly anticipated 2025 Skies Photo Contest!

Up first is our Grand Prize winning photo, captured by Jakob Kim.

“To me, this moment represents the importance of preparation in aviation photography,” he said about capturing the shot.

Jakob is the recipient of a $750 cash prize, and his ...

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scam of a competition 😭😭😭

some of these are so average

[brisk hinge]

hUH

THAT won FIRST PLACE?????

it's a cool picture for sure, but there are others that are better

[sage cape]

some of the runners up are genuinely just average

like they’re not bad photos

But they’re not magazine competition winning photos 😭😭

[uneven fog]

The C-17 moon shot???

And the Qantas moon shot

And the other moon (or sun?) shot

The winning shot is cool but like the second place one should have killed it

And ur telling me the blue angel shot is better than the hog shot?

[sage cape]

The Qantas moon shot is dogshit

[dark hare]

Jakobs shots arent bad they are mainly good

But

The editing done o some shots looks fake as hell

Or super over edited

[delicate silo]

some of them are actually fire

tho

[delicate silo]

you're my entire feed bro

every video i see liked by aussiefastshots

[sage cape]

😭🙏

competitive reel liking

[rocky coyote]

I wouldn’t post that let alone enter it into a competition

The idea was there, the execution wasn’t

[sage cape]

edited meh and soft as fuck

[rocky coyote]

I can see what the guy was going for and if he did it right I’d be onboard with it but unfortunately he stuffed it

[delicate silo]

fr

[lavish loom]

True but still really damn cool

[lavish loom]

I don't get why nr. 9 is there

Just a regular boring shot

not even full plane

[lavish loom]

f117,?, xb47,?, b2, b21

what are the other 2?

[lavish ember]

rq170 and rq180 i think

same profile

and the 2nd one has the little nubbins on the top of the wing like the 170

[spare lantern]

MQ101

https://tenor.com/view/ace-combat-arsenal-bird-mq101-drone-fighter-jet-gif-20467470

[uneven fog]

Mr sol

Or Mr x whatever his name was

Sol squadron

[spare lantern]

Mihaly Dumitru Margareta Corneliu Leopold Blanca Karol Aeon Ignatius Raphael Maria Niketas A. Shilage

[uneven fog]

The real question is what does the A. Stand for

[spare lantern]

Stands for ass because he either chickens out or gets shot down the 3 times you meet him

[uneven fog]

fr

that first mission you see him in

it lets you get a hit away from killing him

until he just does some ungodly speed away from you

[spare lantern]

Not even he just disappears from your hud

You can still chase him and shoot at him but it does no damage

[uneven fog]

been a while since ive played

excited for 8 though

forza horizon 6 and ace combat 8 next year

should be hype

[spare lantern]

Ong but idk how a feel about it being solely on a carrier

Could be really cool tho

But i wanna fly my beloved F15E but even if its in the game it would make no sense

[spare lantern]

Next year is goated for new releases

[uneven fog]

i mean it really doesnt matter in that game

mission like 19 or sum you go land on the carrier thats aground and it doesnt matter what jet ur in

ik ive done it in the raptor

[spare lantern]

True that

Im replaying the campaign on ace rn

On the DLC missions

[uneven fog]

never bought em

[wary wren]

Wasting time between connections at BWI

[brittle bridge]

300 pf?

[vital island]

300pf is long gone

i think

[wary wren]

This is the 85

[dusk spindle]

I got banned 💔

[brittle bridge]

💀

[brisk hinge]

why 💀

[dark hare]

why

[uneven fog]

From here or from discord 😭

[dark hare]

@brittle bridge

[brittle bridge]

fire

[delicate silo]

nelson up to no good again

https://tenor.com/view/jerry-tom-and-jerry-tsk-tsk-disappointed-gif-19573230

[dark hare]

If he was banned from here i think all his messages would be gone

[delicate silo]

nah you can toggle that

it wouldnt say deleted user if it was serverban

[dark hare]

Yeah that too

[uneven fog]

East coast Rhino WSO chillin in the photo pass

[rocky coyote]

Wait a minute is CDR the American abbreviation for Commander?

[brittle bridge]

Yes

[wary wren]

I think I caught him doing the same thing in Brunswick

[uneven fog]

Looks like one of these 🤘

[dusk spindle]

I said “im just turned 12” in a server in 2023 and it just got flagged😭

[brisk hinge]

💀

inb4 banned again

[dusk spindle]

1040 days ago💀

[brisk hinge]

oh so you got your account back

nice

[dusk spindle]

Yeah i just put my id in

[delicate silo]

W

[brittle bridge]

[brisk hinge]

hanging out at the local airport

didn’t bring my camera though

[sage cape]

driving through the middle of fuckin nowhere Texas

[sage cape]

fuckass choppers genuinely sat like that for the past five hours at least

lights on one of them

[delicate silo]

welcome to the US

[thorny warren]

My favs from yesterday

Excuse the shitty centering havent done this with air liners in months

Fighters go much much faster

All unedited)

[delicate silo]

Pretty good unedited

[uneven fog]

Fellas the year is over, everyone send their top 3 pics from this year

Think these are mine

[sage cape]

Probably recency bias on that P3

[delicate silo]

Holy raptor vapor bro im so jealous

Also inpossible for me to pick only 3

[dense totem]

seeing how i only shot one airshow, i dont really have any actual decent plane photos other then the one, so ill supplment with a few of my car ones too

[uneven fog]

No cars allowed unfortunately

[dense totem]

die

[rocky coyote]

What about helicopter carriers?

[vital island]

holy cow

[dark hare]

Yummy afterburner

[thorny warren]

That e3 🥹

[delicate silo]

ignore quaility low export settings lol

[lavish ember]

Man I'm still upset I missed mig killers departure

[delicate silo]

it was peak

[lavish ember]

Yeah I was stuck at a house party and rather inebriated

Good party but I do regret missing those HOs

Picked 'em up when they got in tho so I didnt truly miss out

Got a patch out of it too which was nice

[rocky coyote]

Show us

[lavish ember]

In 4-6 business days, yeah

Something about being out of the office

[rocky coyote]

2025 seems to have been a pretty good year for the people of this channel

Sounds like a fair few us ended up with a couple of patches and challenge coins

[delicate silo]

w im still mad i missed out on patch lol

[lavish ember]

Good is definitely relative lol

My year for spotting was kinda shit

[rocky coyote]

I didn’t see that much, got a lot of patches and coins though

Good in my books

[lavish ember]

I got uhhhhh a patch

That is all

[dark hare]

2025 was fire

I learned nre camera stuff and got a ful system upgrade

[thorny warren]

Edited the ryanair

[brisk hinge]

stealing my pictures again, huh son?

i’m so excited to shoot the oshkosh night show with my 300/2.8 (and maybe 1.4x, f/4 isn’t too bad)

70-200 wasn’t as much as i like

[delicate silo]

2mp raptor photos fr

[dusk spindle]

Didnt spot too much this year

[uneven fog]

Wow these suck

😃

[sage cape]

sidewindermaxxing

[wary wren]

More AIM9 never hurt anyone

[idle wren]

W

[sage cape]

other sidewinder but true

[wary wren]

There’s another one?

Neat

[sage cape]

R2508 low flying complex is called the sidewinder

The two F15 shots are from there

[echo berry]

My dad has an apartment next to a runway bro I wish I lived there

Plane photography would’ve been so easy (well I think)

[lavish loom]

why dont you ask him

[lavish loom]

i cant wait for the airshows this year

[sage cape]

#1 airshow hater

yes please give me the exact same shot everyone else gets thank you!

[lavish loom]

i dont care 😛

[uneven fog]

Cobre only got the same shot cause he steals my pictures

[brisk hinge]

other way around bucko

unless you’re shooting with a z6iii and didn’t tell me

[uneven fog]

Just admit that you stole it and I won’t be upset

[brisk hinge]

wow he really went through the effort to overwrite my metadata

[lavish ember]

All that for a zv body lmao

How many months till you get a new body

[lavish loom]

idk

soon enough

couple months

[lavish ember]

Probably before the next airshow if I had to guess

[lavish loom]

ehhh

probably not

[lavish ember]

Your gonna want an evf and fast

[lavish loom]

i know but its not a big issue so far

[lavish ember]

600mm on live view is ass, especially if its a moving subject

[lavish loom]

i dont have enough money atm, cant force it

[rocky coyote]

They’re not the same image though

[brisk hinge]

yes they are

he stole mine and removed the watermark with ai

he stole other images of mine too

[rocky coyote]

Look at the first flare and the vapour cloud from the left stabiliser downwards

[brisk hinge]

||this is complete sarcasm and fun, not true at all||

we were at the same show and got very similar pictures

[brittle bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-lightyear-gif-21327280

[vital island]

what are you talking about

[brisk hinge]

@uneven fog you must've had your clock slightly off, there's no way that was two different passes right

[rocky coyote]

The flare is going at a different angle

[brisk hinge]

yeah mower these are different pictures

we're joking

they're from the same show/day/pass though

[glass charm]

I went in a helicopter for the first time, went around the NZ alps and landed on Fox Glacier

Super fun

Still will be a while until I get the photos off my actual camera tho

[brisk hinge]

neat

[uneven fog]

The weird like masking is apples automatic image scan or whatever

[uneven fog]

Nah same pass I think my camera clock is just off

[uneven fog]

What’s sarcasm I am dead serious.

Stop stealing my shit

[brisk hinge]

ironic

[delicate silo]

Facts

This guy is always stealing out images

😡

[brisk hinge]

i’m the one with access to shooting from the tower

you posers are stuck in the general admission area and have to steal others pictures to compete

[dark hare]

Real

[delicate silo]

mimimimi

we dont have to cheat for our photos

[brisk hinge]

if this is what cheating gets me i’ll keep cheating all day long

[delicate silo]

pan better if you're going to cheat.

[brisk hinge]

real

[brittle bridge]

1/60 or bust

[delicate silo]

i bust

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-gambling-gif-3937562841362806777

[spare lantern]

Venezuela war time

Can't wait for combat photos

[uneven fog]

wait who took this...

[brisk hinge]

idk someone sent it to me but i forgot who

[delicate silo]

usally id be in PR right now, couldve had some bangers (idk the airports)

[echo berry]

Renters rn

[lavish loom]

dang

outrent them

[echo berry]

It’s at the top floor as well

But a shit airport though

[lavish loom]

airport is airport cant be that bad

[echo berry]

Not a single wide body bro

All js the a320 family

And atr’s

[sage cape]

SOAR locking the fuck in

[uneven fog]

Think they’re blocked from spotting from the most part

[uneven fog]

Wonder who got Maduro

that’s some seal team 6 shit

[uneven fog]

Hmmm I bet

[uneven fog]

Delta force

[rocky coyote]

I read that Delta extracted old mate and his missus before these strikes

[sage cape]

It was delta

delta and 160th taking down governments like the good ol days 😇

[sage cape]

If it was seals there’d already be seven books and a movie about it

[wary wren]

HarperCollins just lost like six book deals

[rocky coyote]

They’ve gotta put their public affairs training to use don’t they

[rocky coyote]

Give it a couple years someone will make a movie about it

[wary wren]

Kathryn Bigelow will direct

[rocky coyote]

What about Steven Seagal?

Nah he’ll probably act in it

[delicate silo]

dang never went cause they got rid of their f16s only cargo now

[uneven fog]

my sister got me a black rifle coffee brew for christmas

wasnt very good

[sage cape]

Delta are trained to be operators, snipers, espionagists, spies, and SEALs are trained for public affairs

[dusk spindle]

The 160th wasnt staging out of there lol

They were on a carrier

[delicate silo]

dang news lied to me, I know they flew over the island people I know there said they heard em

[rocky coyote]

Legend has it, the eye of the eagle on the seal trident is secretly a camera

[uneven fog]

How often do they work off of carriers?

[sage cape]

Were they on the Iwo Jima or the MV Ocean Trader do you know

[sage cape]

quite often it’s a large part of their operations

when they came to Sydney last year they trained off a South Korean and an Australian heli carrier

[brisk hinge]

what show was this?

[steel pike]

Seafair 2025

I was focal length choked (still am)

[delicate silo]

Colors cooked

[steel pike]

Haven’t found time to properly edit it

Where now is the perfect time

[steel pike]

Anything to go for? (Switch to open feedback if you’d like)

[delicate silo]

As you said focal length cooked you but they are also super gray

[steel pike]

👍

[steel pike]

don't know about you but feels like something you would see in an old diner in the middle of no where

[rocky coyote]

Probably not an everyday thing but 160th would definitely have crews certified for shipboard ops

[night wing]

average delivery at my house (everyone I know wishes I was actually joking here)

wow it was showing me old chat

I started the day with 2 redbulls at 5 in the morning

I've had more since

the doctors I know tell me to donate my body to science because my heart health is great, and I randomly cut off completely for months with no effect

[night wing]

I love this plane Panchito has such a cool crew

I always spent 100$+ when I see them to keep it flying

I was their first customer sun n fun 2025

they didn't know the price for an item, over charged me, I said it was a donation

that's why I spend money there, yeah the stuff is cool but keep them flying

oh how big can I see?

I'd like to buy

[brisk hinge]

cool, how did you wrangle that?

ah neat

[delicate silo]

Oh my lord is this corsair a2a

Ah

Looks super cool

Great shots

[sage cape]

all crews are certified

The majority of their ops either require aerial refuelling or shipboard operations

[delicate silo]

average mid lev shot

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-urge-resist-cat-gif-25536160

[uneven fog]

I coulda swore I posted that in the other channel

[dusk spindle]

Probably the iwo jima, thats the one my dad usually worked off of

[dusk spindle]

Every once in a while, i know they based off carriers when working in indonesia

[uneven fog]

Me when I’m confidently wrong

[delicate silo]

Nah

[brittle bridge]

me when llama right

[trail pelican]

yall think this is a good composition ??

[brisk hinge]

no

[trail pelican]

fair

this?

[brisk hinge]

not really

[trail pelican]

last one

[brisk hinge]

best of the three but still not amazing

[trail pelican]

i've got 2026 to try and improve 🙏

[brisk hinge]

ignoring the pretty terrible quality and bad editing/colors, they're all messy and don't have any real focus or draw to them

[trail pelican]

the colors turned out horrible on the last one cuz im shooting from behind a tinted dirty terminal window

[brisk hinge]

yeah that's what i assumed

but ignoring that, the compositions just aren't interesting

i don't mean to be rude but that's what you asked 🤷‍♂️

[trail pelican]

i'd agree tbh

i liked the way the jet bridge looks like a fluffy headphone on this one

[uneven fog]

Gah damn

[dark hare]

I threw more denoise at this one cuz people said was noisey

[brisk hinge]

now it looks soft and muddy

defeatdie

[brittle bridge]

fried

[lavish ember]

Throw some grain back at it

It helps a bit ime

[dark hare]

thats what i dont like

[brittle bridge]

I never denoise past 35

[delicate silo]

I do erm but I export low quality so not big deal

[brittle bridge]

😭

[brisk hinge]

…why? 😭

[sage cape]

planespotters.net

[uneven fog]

Is this better or worse than JP

[sage cape]

2160p instead of 1080!

[dark hare]

whe

yeahhhhh

the first 4 they talk about are f35s to be delivered to a us base for training

[delicate silo]

hot

[rocky coyote]

Let me steal that for my mate

@brittle bridge I’m coming to the US

[sage cape]

Get the Iwo Jima on Bella 1 fuck troop morale

[thorny warren]

This guy has the best spawn point istg

[brittle bridge]

Ok

[uneven fog]

Hm?

[dark hare]

@brittle bridge

My 5 new swoops arrived

[sage cape]

Niche

[brittle bridge]

[brittle bridge]

No vf eyecup thingy so based

[sage cape]

shit fell off yonks ago

[dark hare]

fr

swoop

[brisk hinge]

C-17 holding short for us at PHX Sky Harbor

[brittle bridge]

PHX my beloved

[brisk hinge]

it’s alright

[brittle bridge]

My favorite

[brisk hinge]

my local small town airport is my favorite

[brittle bridge]

C17 pretty frequent at PHX

[brisk hinge]

yeah and KC-135s

[brittle bridge]

I see em about every time I’m down there

[uneven fog]

Rahhh E-6

[sage cape]

Missed you by about six hours into Phoenix it seems

[brisk hinge]

my flight left at like 3:15 local time

[sage cape]

Only three hours then

[brittle bridge]

to Chicago?

[brisk hinge]

nope

[brittle bridge]

aa a321 no?

[brisk hinge]

not going to say

[brittle bridge]

not like chicago is small or anything smh

[delicate silo]

whole fleet

[delicate silo]

i liked ur post :3

[delicate silo]

REAL

[delicate silo]

good boy

[dark hare]

yes

[rocky coyote]

What’s the airport in Dallas?

Is it good?

[brittle bridge]

DFW

Not great for short layovers, especially with a different airline

[rocky coyote]

Lucky I don’t have a layover there it’s where I’m flying into

[brittle bridge]

DFW pretty buns

[rocky coyote]

I’m only gonna be there when I enter and exit your country

[brittle bridge]

Good

[sage cape]

And a sneaky comment

[sage cape]

The QF flights there are notoriously good

[delicate silo]

[rocky coyote]

If only I was on Qantas

[spare lantern]

Snowler

[uneven fog]

As or Bs?

[dark hare]

i would guess b cuz it has the wing tip thingies

idk if the a has

[sage cape]

A

[sage cape]

all models can have that

and all models can not have that

[dark hare]

oh

ive never seen an A with it

[sage cape]

it’s just an external sidewinder mount

[dark hare]

only b and c

[sage cape]

haven’t looked very hard

They wouldn’t have em at airshows but a lot of operational training they use them to increase the RCS

[dark hare]

ig thats the issue

dont see those mf things in canada

someday we will get our damn f35s

[sage cape]

someday you’ll get your shitty ass gripens

[dark hare]

real

[uneven fog]

Does the Charlie have the actual rail for it

Ik they do the actual pylons

don’t think I’ve ever seen the rail on a C tho

Ah looks like they can

[sage cape]

yes all models can

All models have the ability to have three external pylons each wing, two of which can carry bombs/120s and the other for sidewinders

[uneven fog]

The Charlie can def carry more

Bigger wing

[sage cape]

The b and c rarely use the heavy pylons however because it limits their fuel load for STOVL/CATOBAR operations

[uneven fog]

STOVL lowkey ass

[sage cape]

The B model fucking sucks at everything except being cool

[uneven fog]

Like yes it’s cool we can get jets on a heli carrier

But like

[sage cape]

It’s effectively a big weapons sensor

[uneven fog]

Horrible fuel burn in ST and VTOL

Has had so many issues

[uneven fog]

Which only works if ur in an engagement with more than just marines

Legacy hornet probably can’t effectively data link or be an effective missile bus

And then they have a fuck ton of Charlie’s

So just use those instead

[spare lantern]

All models have the sidwinder mount available

I wanna see some with it

[delicate silo]

B is an engineering masterpiece its just not tactically or financially reasonable

[rocky coyote]

Is it cool that such an advanced fighter has STOVL? Yes
How often is it going to be used?
silence

[delicate silo]

fact

[dusk spindle]

y'all are so dumb 😭

the whole reason they made it svtol is so it could replace harriers on LHDs which they need stovl for

[delicate silo]

ur one to talk

[dusk spindle]

https://tenor.com/view/backhand-hoodwinked-hoodwinked2-hd-meme-gif-24300706

[uneven fog]

Bad concept we don’t need jets on heli carriers 💔

More regular carriers

[delicate silo]

marines dont even want it they ordered more Cs and canceled some Bs

[dusk spindle]

tell me you know nothing about the marines and lhds without telling me

[uneven fog]

Operate the legacy hornet from carriers again

Re activate the whole legacy fleet in the graveyard

[sage cape]

😬😬

Luke goes alright

[lavish ember]

is that off foulois, i've never been able to figure out where that spot is

oh foulois is on base, idk then actually

[dusk spindle]

took like 2 minutes to find lol

can almost guarantee its somewhere right here

[lavish ember]

oh luke

fuckin

yk actually looking at the right base would probably help

[dusk spindle]

were you looking at the f35 plant lol

[lavish ember]

no hill

[dusk spindle]

ah

[lavish ember]

yeah i just saw foreign 35s and assumed hill for some reason

[flint smelt]

Supposedly the belgians are supposed to come to Hawaii for Rimpac this year.

[sage cape]

yep

Right along that road

It’s a bit further north than that marker

[sage cape]

the colours on the 35 look so mint

[flint smelt]

Brand new eh?

[sage cape]

Pretty close

[flint smelt]

mm

[delicate silo]

Bro cooked for the first time 🔥

[uneven fog]

First shot goes hard

[delicate silo]

They all go hard

Colors are slightly gray imo but great shots

[sage cape]

didn’t have much to work with tbf but that’s a bit of my style anyway

clouds made the burner appear and kept the backlighting away so no complaints

[delicate silo]

Ig

[glass charm]

Queenstown

About a half hour up into the mountains near Queenstown you can get a pretty unique view

[brisk hinge]

that's neat

[sage cape]

mesa gateway gawdamn

[glass charm]

that's yum

[delicate silo]

I ❤️ ENJJPT

[thorny warren]

Florennes?

Nvm its a usa airbase

Thought because of the belgian f35 it was here in florennes 😅

[uneven fog]

Inaccurate

It actually finds the nearest friendly and tracks right to it

[lavish loom]

aim 9m turning into an aim 9x as soon as it sees a teammate

[uneven fog]

Erm those are NOT soar chinooks

It is very unlikely that they would be operating near or off of a carrier

[delicate silo]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1383646119145242624/1459678773858533526/Recording_2026-01-10_154133.gif

[uneven fog]

Went to plane spotting

Bros talking to a 2nd grader 💔

[delicate silo]

real

respect the game

[uneven fog]

WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH

[delicate silo]

[acoustic oxide]

I wanna take a day trip to go plane spotting what airports would y’all recommend visiting in the US

[brisk hinge]

where will you be?

or, what's nearby?

[acoustic oxide]

I’m leaving from Orlando airport

I just wanna leave in the morning and do some spotting then come back in the evening

[brisk hinge]

i don't know Florida that well unfortunately

there's obviously Orlando/Daytona/St. Pete nearby, but i'm not sure how they fare for spotting

[acoustic oxide]

Oh okay thank you

[uneven fog]

Military?

[uneven fog]

Like go fly somewhere for the day to spot?

[acoustic oxide]

Yeah

[sage cape]

On a weekday?

[uneven fog]

Oceana.

You could probably go direct to ORF on spirit or swa (not sure on the times), maybe breeze but you could definitely connect through somewhere

You’d need a rental car or an uber to get from ORF to NTU, probably 20-25 min drive

Would definitely be worth staying the night too

I stayed here and they were arriving on 23

Those are all shot from my balcony which was facing north

[delicate silo]

Corsair

[acoustic oxide]

Thank you I’ll take a look at tickets

[lavish ember]

the best airport is the closest one to your hotel

[acoustic oxide]

Any day

[sage cape]

If you’re planning on any military spotting make sure it’s Monday-Thursday

[delicate silo]

denoise, great shot!

maybe just low export qual cant tell

[spare lantern]

It’s a low export quality since its a shitpost lol

This is the real image

It could use more denoise still tho your right

[delicate silo]

I meant less but yuh

[delicate silo]

looks better there love the scene

[spare lantern]

British Columbia is just beautiful like that

We got the best backdrops

[delicate silo]

[lavish ember]

not me finally getting through month old pics

[delicate silo]

where?

sick

[lavish ember]

some place out west

[dark hare]

thing

[delicate silo]

Hot

[thorny warren]

Why’d it have to focus on the flare

[trail pelican]

heatseeking ahh auto focus

[trail pelican]

blanked registration on that 757?

[lavish ember]

yeah the c-32b's are like that

probably 00-9001

[lavish loom]

is your camera shaped like a missile by chance

[sage cape]

JSOC 🤷

[delicate silo]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-missile-gif-6310357323967362250

[dark hare]

random stuff

[dark hare]

Gah zamn

[thorny warren]

Perchance

[thorny warren]

Deadass tho 😭

[thorny warren]

Zoo wee mama

[sage cape]

😬😬😬

[delicate silo]

fire

[lavish loom]

you can't just say perchance

[thorny warren]

But i did

[night wing]

My swoop is bigger

[dark hare]

huh

[night wing]

1:100

[night wing]

Do you think my giant swoop is cool?

[dark hare]

Yum

[dark hare]

Yes

I need one sometime

But for 1:400 this is every registration they made

[night wing]

Woah

I got mine for 100$

[dark hare]

usd or cad

[brittle bridge]

I think bro likes swoop

[dark hare]

yes

i like westje

must collect all of its subsidaries too

[brittle bridge]

I’m too broke for allat

[delicate silo]

fr

[dark hare]

Heli

[thorny warren]

Totally unrelated but a cool cat

[uneven fog]

I want to be like Rob Reider when I retire