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Ghery

Ghery

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Gathering of Warbirds is running this weekend at OLM. I was going to work the flightline, but wound up having to go to SE Asia over the weekend instead of on Monday. So I ducked out of work early today and worked the line while the Collings Foundation bombers were coming in (plus some activities afterwards). I took almost 300 pictures while I was there (got to love digital cameras) and got a kick of of a few I took of the B-17 as it was taxiing in. Didn't even notice until I downloaded them into the computer. I love self-titling pictures.
 

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One in a million opportunity! Great picture!! Talk about being in the right place at the right time.
 
Oh, and I got this one of the B-24 about to touch down. No, I wasn't that close. 300 mm lens on my DSLR.
 

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And look behind the B-24. There's that B-17 waiting to cross the runway over to parking.
 

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Ghery, those pictures are awesome! That first picture you couldn't have done better if you planed it. How much for a print suitable for framing? I'm serious.

300 pics, huh? It sounds like you got to fly chase. Let's hear all about it.
 
Fantastic photo's! Two of the greatest aircraft ever to take wing. What made them so great? Their crews.
 
...and don't you just love the sound of those 4 radials? Idle, takeoff power, whatever.

Not four, but six: attached is a recording of a B-36 flyover. They sound different from the four engine bombers as the plane is a pusher. The air coming off the wing makes that staccato sound.

-Skip
 

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Richard said:
Ghery, those pictures are awesome! That first picture you couldn't have done better if you planed it. How much for a print suitable for framing? I'm serious.

300 pics, huh? It sounds like you got to fly chase. Let's hear all about it.
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Grab the file from the webboard and have it done locally. No problem.

My pictures were all from the ground. The original plan was to fly the museum director up to PWT so she could ride back to OLM on one of the bombers, but her boss nixed the idea. So I didn't fly, but worked the flight line instead helping marshal aircraft. Of course I had my trusty Sony A100 DSLR with me with a fully charged battery and empty 4 GByte memory card installed. That camera will take a lot of pictures in a short period of time, so I burned through a lot as the B-17, B-24 and B-25 were making their approaches and landings. Other planes, too.

One funny incident came when a CAP cadet tried to shoo me away from where I was taking some pictures as he thought the B-17 was going to taxi through and I was too close. 1 - I had a badge that gave me unlimited access (I was working there) and 2 - I already knew that the B-17 was NOT going to taxi by where I was standing. I had been briefed, the cadet had not. Oh well... :p
 
gotta love those CAP cadets - most of 'em are nice, but boy howdy, there are some of 'em that really need to take the cork out and let some of that hot air and self-importance vent to get their heads back down to normal size.
 
Skip Miller said:
Not four, but six: attached is a recording of a B-36 flyover. They sound different from the four engine bombers as the plane is a pusher. The air coming off the wing makes that staccato sound.
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What'd be really cool is to find a recording of an E or later model, where they added the four jet engines as well. That had to be a truly unique sound.

I tell ya what, I sure wish I'd had a recording device a few weeks back when the Dalai Lama was in town. He left with a full figher escort. The combination of civilian jet plus fighters was an interesting sound too.

Cool pics, Ghery! :yes:
 
How about one with no radial engines...:p

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What'd be really cool is to find a recording of an E or later model, where they added the four jet engines as well. That had to be a truly unique sound.
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Holy crap! I didn't know they did that to a B-36. Looks underpowered. :D

The '17 and '24 pictures are fan-freakin'-tastic. I saved-as on my computer.
 
Nope: It's Convair's bid for what Boeing won with the B-52. It was, IIRC, the XB-60. I can't remember correctly, but I think a couple were made, and actually flew. They obviously didn't beat the BUFF.

Oops: YB-60. Started out as the XB-36G. Carried more, but was slower, and lousier in the air than the YB-52.

Jim
 
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