Some beautiful shots.

[VNugget]

Well, I dug around my collection of plane photos that I have gathered throughout the past, and picked out what I think are some of the most breathtaking ones. Some you may have seen before here, some may be copyrighted... this is just my private collection. I have long forgotten where any of them came from. If I step on any toes, I offer my apologies.

Anyway, amid all the furloughs, bad weather, bad aviation climate in general, PFT wars , etc... (not that I have experienced any of those... yet) I thought I'd try to lighten everyone's mood up a bit for the next several minutes. Without further ado...

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P.S. Can anyone tell me what those small flare-like things in between the main flares on that Hornet pictures are? My first thought was photo artifacts, but I don' think that's it.

 

[SushiSlayer]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Iceman21]

P.S. Can anyone tell me what those small flare-like things in between the main flares on that Hornet pictures are? My first thought was photo artifacts, but I don' think that's it.

My initial thought would be flare igniters. Whada think?

 

[Flying Illini]

I had to add a few of those to my personal collection. Great photos! Any idea what the 727 in #12 was doing? was that a doctored pic?

 

[Iceman21]

Lifeguard flight with a nice healthy heart to deliver?

 

[metrodriver]

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I thought I'd try to lighten everyone's mood up a bit for the next several minutes.

Man, you almost made me cry. Some of those were exactly the reason I went into aviation for, instead I'm sitting down here looking up instead of up there looking down.
Beuatiful pictures.

 

[Iceman21]

Dude, those pics blow chunks. WHere did you get that crap?

I would like to see some pictures that don't "blow chunks". Care to share any?

 

[ShawnC]

Plane Porn

http://www.lazyeights.net/av_gal/P-51_1_anet.html

http://www.lazyeights.net/av_gal/Sea_Knight_1_anet.html

http://www.brentroad.com/photos/00059201.jpg

http://students.db.erau.edu/~papageod/Hornet Over Daytona-s.jpg


Feel free to browse my site, I have tons of airplane junk.

http://www.lazyeights.net
http://www.lazyeights.net/Avion
http://www.lazyeights.net/movies

Err I got to start reworking my website again, I need to bring some of my stuff into the main site.

 

[ShawnC]

I had to add a few of those to my personal collection. Great photos! Any idea what the 727 in #12 was doing? was that a doctored pic?

It's real, it's from a.net

Here is the link to it on their site:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/228941/L/

It's a Kiwi Air Force 727.

 

[ExAF]

P.S. Can anyone tell me what those small flare-like things in between the main flares on that Hornet pictures are? My first thought was photo artifacts, but I don' think that's it.

I think they are just a reflection of the flares off of the canopy of the aircraft taking the picture. The flares are ignited by squibbs in the dispenser and there isn't any ignitor that falls away with the flare that would be visible. Cheers...

 

[Airpiraterob]

flare...flare.....FLARE!

those are reflections off the internal glass focal plane segments of the camera lens itself.