Great photo! I've never seen one of these. It looks like a prop from a science fiction movie.
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Great photo! I've never seen one of these. It looks like a prop from a science fiction movie.
Thanks Sandpatch
They are pretty unique looking - It was designed in the late 50's as a high altitude nuclear bomber, but when anti aircraft missiles improved, the RAF found they had to fly at low level and this just wasn't designed to do it... They started find stress fractures on them so converted them to air-to-air tankers. It was only in the mid 80's that they started being replaced from that role.
It was one of the three "V-Bombers" used by the UK, the others being the Valiant (Didn't last) and probably the most well known of them - The Vulcan. There is still a Vulcan flying for displays, so I'll hopefully get some shots of it this summer!
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Nice shot. Looks like either a BK 117 or EC 145. Just not that good at ID
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Unexpected grab shot,it wasn't until i got it on the computer i saw what the passenger was doing
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That's unusual that the passenger is sitting in the right front seat. That is normally the place where the pilot or HAC (Helicopter Aircraft Commander) sits when there are two pilots flying. It is opposite from fixed wing aircraft, though I do not know why. With all of my time flying in Huey's, Chinooks and Blackhawks I never got the chance to find out why they were reversed.
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Shoot, I forgot all about this image! And the Blues are doing a rehearsal this Friday for the show this weekend. I may have to grab the camera and "big gun" and go.
Panned with the 600mm f/4 AIS on a monopod
Awesome shot!! Love the Angels. Was really bummed that they had to miss their normal practice runs the week I was in town on Vaca this spring.
Btw - spent a couple thousand hours in a Huey myself. Always nice to run into fellow AA vets!
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Welcome.
Sure you can. While it's by far from a stellar lens; it's still capable of capturing some pretty good shots. The kit 55-200 is too soft for my tastes at full focal length, but given the right conditions is more than adequate.
Sure you can. While it's by far from a stellar lens; it's still capable of capturing some pretty good shots. The kit 55-200 is too soft for my tastes at full focal length, but given the right conditions is more than adequate.
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local air evac -
Love it! Apache's were our "Guardian Angels" in Iraq. Just hearing the rotor blades was enough to get the insurgents to really think hard about whether they really wanted to die for allah that day. If that did not make up their minds, usually a few rounds from the 30mm Chain Gun did the trick
4 main rotor blades with a canted tip and a pair of offset tail rotors makes them very quiet (for a chopper at least). They can come screaming at you at tree top level and can be on you before you know it. They can also stand off from about a mile away and tear you to shreds with the gun.
Since you don't really need a "fast" lens for aviation, I'll bet the 70-300 Tamron VC or 70-300 Nikon VR (a little more) would be fine.