Jones Beach Airshow 2010

Wonderful shots everybody, some are just spectacular. Here is just about my favorite from the show, and yes it is of the high speed pass. And to Lieutenant Commander Frank Weisser if we ever meet the first two rounds are on me!

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Here are some from Republic taken outside the fence:

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(A little heat haze!)

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Thanks

Isaac

Isaac unbelieveable! Outstanding!

Great shots Isaac! That Mustang is pin sharp.

Isaac, AWESOME SHOTS !!!!! :borat: :borat: :borat:

AMAZING shots Isaac!

I soo look like crap but here is a shot from today with the pilots of the A-10's. Many thanks to them and thank you Chris for pushing me to go. My sister still has not shut up about it!


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Fred, John, Chris and Christina

Thanks so much for the comments, I appreciate it...

Isaac

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Here are some from Republic taken outside the fence:

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No, thank you. Simply beautiful as is your portfolio. The crazy angles you get are insane. Its amazing how crystal clear your shots are and also how blue the sky is. Very inspiring. Did you take most of these in the morning hours?


George

Since the Airshow ended I decided to re-purpose this thread. Blow is a description of each new section.

Audio Archive: Listen/download the 2010 airshow narration.


Photo's and more: Share & Comment on Photo's and Video's from the 2010 Jones Beach Airshow.


Video Archive:Watch embedded video's from Steve's Airshow World.


Events: A list of aviation related events in the area.


2011 Coverage:Info about 2010 coverage.

Events

A-10 East Departure - Tuesday 8:30AM

Notes

The Audio Archive will be uploaded later this week

The archived version of this thread will be uploaded later this week

The Steve's Airshow video's will be coming soon

Nice shots everyone! I brought the family to the show on Sunday and what a beautiful day it was and a great show. However, there was one thing that almost made me decide never to come to another show at Jones ever again. We left Deer Park at 0800 and made good time to the toll booths on the Wantagh. I'd say we hit the traffic on the Wantagh for the booths just past the outer bridge. It was 0840 and it took us 15 mins tops to get thru the booths and get to lot 4 and parked. Thats not bad. Now normally thats it for the delays. At least in the past 6 years I have attended. We walked from the back of lot 4 to the underpass. Now in years past its a quick walk and in no time your thru security and on the board walk. Well we got to the underpass and came to a screeching halt. Mobs of people crammed together in that tunnel. It took ONE HOUR of standing in line to get thru security. We got to the boardwalk at 1000 when the flag jump happened and still had to find our spot on the beach.

This was ridiculous and never happened before. In years past the checkpoints were mostly for the coolers to check for alcohol. Apparently this year was like trying to get on to an AFB (why I don't go to free AFB shows) and every single bag was checked with only two lanes no less. That was unacceptable. I think they took the hint eventually and started giving a cursory look at the bags and just opened the coolers. My friend Eric who arrived an hour after us ended up in lot 3 further west and said he didn't hit this kind of delay when he entered by the west bathhouse. We'll try that next year.

I had my Pro-97 scanner with me this year and heard all the action including airboss. I happend to catch something maybe someone heard about? I picked up a mayday call on the freq used by the 106th. One of their crewmen was injured in a fall and suffered head trauma. On a later call I heard they needed an HH60 for extraction. Has anyone heard about this?

Pete

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Nice shots everyone! I brought the family to the show on Sunday and what a beautiful day it was and a great show. However, there was one thing that almost made me decide never to come to another show at Jones ever again. We left Deer Park at 0800 and made good time to the toll booths on the Wantagh. I'd say we hit the traffic on the Wantagh for the booths just past the outer bridge. It was 0840 and it took us 15 mins tops to get thru the booths and get to lot 4 and parked. Thats not bad. Now normally thats it for the delays. At least in the past 6 years I have attended. We walked from the back of lot 4 to the underpass. Now in years past its a quick walk and in no time your thru security and on the board walk. Well we got to the underpass and came to a screeching halt. Mobs of people crammed together in that tunnel. It took ONE HOUR of standing in line to get thru security. We got to the boardwalk at 1000 when the flag jump happened and still had to find our spot on the beach.

This was ridiculous and never happened before. In years past the checkpoints were mostly for the coolers to check for alcohol. Apparently this year was like trying to get on to an AFB (why I don't go to free AFB shows) and every single bag was checked with only two lanes no less. That was unacceptable. I think they took the hint eventually and started giving a cursory look at the bags and just opened the coolers. My friend Eric who arrived an hour after us ended up in lot 3 further west and said he didn't hit this kind of delay when he entered by the west bathhouse. We'll try that next year.

I had my Pro-97 scanner with me this year and heard all the action including airboss. I happend to catch something maybe someone heard about? I picked up a mayday call on the freq used by the 106th. One of their crewmen was injured in a fall and suffered head trauma. On a later call I heard they needed an HH60 for extraction. Has anyone heard about this?

Pete

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For Sunday I entered by the West Bath house and to my surprise, no checkpoints of any kind. Walked right onto the beach.

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Nice shots everyone! I brought the family to the show on Sunday and what a beautiful day it was and a great show. However, there was one thing that almost made me decide never to come to another show at Jones ever again. We left Deer Park at 0800 and made good time to the toll booths on the Wantagh. I'd say we hit the traffic on the Wantagh for the booths just past the outer bridge. It was 0840 and it took us 15 mins tops to get thru the booths and get to lot 4 and parked. Thats not bad. Now normally thats it for the delays. At least in the past 6 years I have attended. We walked from the back of lot 4 to the underpass. Now in years past its a quick walk and in no time your thru security and on the board walk. Well we got to the underpass and came to a screeching halt. Mobs of people crammed together in that tunnel. It took ONE HOUR of standing in line to get thru security. We got to the boardwalk at 1000 when the flag jump happened and still had to find our spot on the beach.

This was ridiculous and never happened before. In years past the checkpoints were mostly for the coolers to check for alcohol. Apparently this year was like trying to get on to an AFB (why I don't go to free AFB shows) and every single bag was checked with only two lanes no less. That was unacceptable. I think they took the hint eventually and started giving a cursory look at the bags and just opened the coolers. My friend Eric who arrived an hour after us ended up in lot 3 further west and said he didn't hit this kind of delay when he entered by the west bathhouse. We'll try that next year.

I had my Pro-97 scanner with me this year and heard all the action including airboss. I happend to catch something maybe someone heard about? I picked up a mayday call on the freq used by the 106th. One of their crewmen was injured in a fall and suffered head trauma. On a later call I heard they needed an HH60 for extraction. Has anyone heard about this?

Pete

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For Sunday I entered by the West Bath house and to my surprise, no checkpoints of any kind. Walked right onto the beach.

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I believe I walked pass the security check point before 8:30am. I parked at the field 4. I wasn't checked, and so as many people before me. All I had was my backpack. Everything else was visible, monopod, beach chair, my 500L F4 IS and 1dmarkIII.

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No, thank you. Simply beautiful as is your portfolio. The crazy angles you get are insane. Its amazing how crystal clear your shots are and also how blue the sky is. Very inspiring. Did you take most of these in the morning hours?


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Thanks George, These photos were taken throughout the day Sunday. I did move to three different locations to get the best vantage points.

Isaac

They have three checkpoints to access the boardwalk near "show center" The one coming up the walkway from field four. I will admit I never heard of that much of a delay before and I have used that way in a few times.

The checkpoint on the boardwalk entering the area from the west side had 4 stations and no line.

If you want to avoid checkpoints all together park in any lot other than field four and enter the beach before one of the other two boardwalk checkpoints and just walk over the sand to where you want to sit.

There were a lot of people Sunday, 236,000 so it was crowded.

But it took me 10 minutes to get out of field three and hit no traffic on the Meadowbrok leaving at 3:30PM. Ironically they still had the southbound lanes closed.

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No, thank you. Simply beautiful as is your portfolio. The crazy angles you get are insane. Its amazing how crystal clear your shots are and also how blue the sky is. Very inspiring. Did you take most of these in the morning hours?


George

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Thanks George, These photos were taken throughout the day Sunday. I did move to three different locations to get the best vantage points.

Isaac

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What set up do you use? I have to say your shots are some of the clearest, sharpest shots I have ever seen

Really nice pics Isaac- especially of the A-10 - very impressive stuff indeed. I am so bummed that I missed the A-10s take off yesterday (I showed up at like 10:55 and someone had told me they had taken off a short time earlier....

Ken

Ken, they returned a short time later - they were doing a fly over of the Intrepid for Memorial Day. They are departing for home this morning.

Thanks Ken and Christina!

Christina, I am using a Canon 50D with the Canon 100-400L lens.

Great stuff everyone... I will have to take a lot more time to go thru everything allot better after I get done editing. I am sorting out the shots I want to use and I am up to 1100 from the start until Fat Albert returned on Saturday!!! UGH, I guess I am going to have to remove about 75% of the ones I want to keep!

Please keep in mind that is not including the 2 Sean Tucker flights and 1 T-6 flight with Paul Farber....with those three flights I think I have 2000 I want to keep!

This is going to be a LONG WEEK of editing. To tired to continue now...Back to sorting early tomorrow.

Thank you to all who made this a memorable experience. I had the weekend of a lifetime and still I have not landed! :lol:

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Love this shot Fred!


Thanks again for the hook up(s) this weekend.

The 2 A-10's just took off at exactly 10am

couple more from me.

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Here are some of my captures from this years air show ...... I hope everyone enjoyed the air show. Check out my website for more images.

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Brilliant shots everyone!

I was away from Saturday AM onward but you guys made it like I never left!


As I headed north on Wellwood from my gym to the office, I saw the A10s depart, taking a long arc eastward and then arcing back west over FRG/Melville. Its great seeing them at a distance sometimes, in the open sky.


So whats news? Coney Island?!! :borat:


THanks to Fred, Moose, Eric, Tom and everyone for sharing the pics and making this such a good thread.
Sorry I was unable to meet all of you, but one day!

Here's a link to my Air Show Gallery.

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So whats news? Coney Island?!! :borat:

Yup thats what makes the fact that the weekend is over easier to handle. We have another Air Show to look
forward to and that whole week is Air Force Week so there will probably be lots of goodies going on!! :D
And I am on VACAY!!!!! :D :D

Don't forget about the Red Bull Air Races in just a couple of weeks also !! :wink: :borat:

Well its the most depressing time of year :( The Jones Beach Airshow and all the festivities around it have ended. While I tried to keep everyone informed, I ran into some personal issues that held me back but I hope you guys made use of what I posted and I'm ready for next year! Also it was nice meeting up with you guys and seeing some new and familiar faces. I hope to see you guys attend the Red Bull Air Race, The Atlantic City Airshow, Cony Island, The Grand Old Airshow and all the other air events in the area! And don't worry Jones Beach is only 365 days away ;)

Until next time,
--Kenneth


By the way the static webpage is uploaded and the Steve's Airshow World teaser is embedded in this thread.

The narration audio will be up late Friday afternoon.

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Well its the most depressing time of year :( The Jones Beach Airshow and all the festivities around it have ended. While I tried to keep everyone informed, I ran into some personal issues that held me back but I hope you guys made use of what I posted and I'm ready for next year! Also it was nice meeting up with you guys and seeing some new and familiar faces. I hope to see you guys attend the Red Bull Air Race, The Atlantic City Airshow, Cony Island, The Grand Old Airshow and all the other air events in the area! And don't worry Jones Beach is only 365 days away ;)

Until next time,
--Kenneth


By the way the static webpage is uploaded and the Steve's Airshow World teaser is embedded in this thread.

The narration audio will be up late Friday afternoon.

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GREAT GREAT JOB!!!Thank you!!

$54 FOR BLURRY SHOTS $54! I'm going to go curl up someplace now... :x

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$54 FOR BLURRY SHOTS $54! I'm going to go curl up someplace now... :x

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With all the money you have been spending on film and processing, you could have bought an entry level DSLR kit by now. Shame, shame, shame.

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With all the money you have been spending on film and processing, you could have bought an entry level DSLR kit by now. Shame, shame, shame.

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I was going to say the same thing.

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With all the money you have been spending on film and processing, you could have bought an entry level DSLR kit by now. Shame, shame, shame.

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I was going to say the same thing.

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I would have had one for that air show if the tranny on my car didnt crap out :|

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GREAT GREAT JOB!!!Thank you!!

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Thanks!

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I would have had one for that air show if the tranny on my car didnt crap out :|

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You should stick with women that were actually born as women then.

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You should stick with women that were actually born as women then.

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Here's a few more from the weekend that no one else has posted yet. A few different viewpoints.

US Army Golden Knights departure
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John Klatt, waiting for departure
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Ed Hamill goes through his routine on the ground
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Chuck Aaron and his 'stache, ready to roll
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Matt Chapman, waiting to go
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A closeup of the man...Sean D. Tucker
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Eric Tucker warming up his Extra 300
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The CF18, planting it on the piano keys
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Ed Hamill goes through his routine on the ground
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Hamill is an animal. I saw him several times this weekend & every time he had his I-pod in, listenting to his routine.

I heard him say on the radio that this was his last show of the season but I'm keeping my fingers & toes crossed that he can get sponsorship & we'll see him at one of the Aug shows, (Pease, ACY, Westfield, Coney)

Hopefully his people will get on the horn with some of the casino's in ACY and try to get the same deal he had Bethpage lined up.

05-27-2010: Thought I would relive a little of Thursday morning's arrival.
Sorry about the resolution as my server will allow a max of 150kb.


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