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If you are referring to today, Sunday. Viper 1, the F16 did land at FRG with an "engine emergency." Even after he landed, on 32, he told tower immediate 180 on the runway and taxi to LI Jet Center, he advised the F16 to hold short of the active runway 1 for the A10 doing a Low pass, he shot back, I AM DECLARING EMERGENCY STATUS AND WILL TAXI RIGHT NOW TO WHERE THE A-10's ARE PARKED. The A-10 did an adjusted low-pass and that was all I heard. Pics of said F16 landing @ FRG to come later tonight.
What a great day! Weather was about perfect, lots of great flying, afterburners!!!
Got to hang out all day with Fred, Chris, Tommy and his friends. Nice to meet Steve & Scotty. Now all I have is about 800 photos to go through (I know, Fred, I'm a slacker!)
Nick - you have to come out next year!
Gee Moose don't be so hard on yourself. I'm the slacker here, I only have to sift through 324 from today, total of 611 for the weekend. Plus an hour's worth of video clips. ;)
Oh man talk about a great freaking day!! All around it was great. Good group of guys and it was great to finally meet Steve and Scotty. As always Fred, Moose, and Chris...good time with you guys. I wonder if the Airforce knows that Fred's shutter finger is faster then the A10's main gun??? They might want to hire him, ahahaha
Does anyone know what time the Blue Angels are departing tomorrow?
I messed up some shots today and was hoping for one more chance :)
Thanks
Tommy, John, Fred great day with you guys!!!!! Im still going through all my pics... 2,100 Fred lol, but thats from the whole weekend... I don't even compare to you :wink: i gotta change the settings on my camera, i have them up too high :cry: i was unhappy with most of my shots..
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Chris these look great. Its prob not your camera or your technique. The setup of the show and the light was not in line. The show was in front of us and the sun was to the left then overhead and then to the right and the sky was white vs blue. Certainly a challenge to shoot in, I think the polarizing filter I was using helped in some cases. See Fred I didn't stop the prop, hehe, Fred was yelling at me for stopping the props. Here's a few
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/Blue1.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/c130pluehelio.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/C130.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/het1.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/skytypers1.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/blue2.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/blue4.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/B17A.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/blue3.jpg
I took a shot or two, I will tally up the totals later tonight...but here are two of the blues I liked
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/temp/ny...1/IMG_3579.jpg
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/temp/ny...1/IMG_3586.jpg
Sorry Greg, the Blues are already gone. They departed FRG about 5 pm. I managed to get there from the beach about 5 minutes before they cranked up.
great photos guys!
higheels and I were at FRG from about 1040 onward. My dad joined us an hour later.
Saw the F16 landing and we just thought it was an extra treat. Actually, we could see him streaking west along the coastline as he went to meet formation for the heritage tour. 15 minutes later, it was just a surprise to have him here.
Got a few decent shots here and there but I was just thrilled to finally see an A-10 in action. I just love them.
PLus it was nice to finally hang out with my dad and see a part of the airshow, something that he hadnt dont together in 20 years.
I'll be the first to say the light was harsh, but I still managed to get a few good ones from New Highway. Comments are welcome.
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One Hot Bull - little blurry I know
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Viper 1 - declared emergency
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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...04/880419b.jpg
Fat Albert Hi-Speed Takeoff
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ue8Takeoff.jpg
Fat Albert Hi-Speed Pass
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...SpeedPass2.jpg
Blue 5-6 Takeoff Split
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ue5-6Split.jpg
John
Need to tweak it, but here is my video of the airshow
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/VideoLI...how2006640.wmv
Fred, What's there to tweak? Absolutely awesome!
It was a really great day, Sorry I didn't make it over to where you guys were. I heard that that the estimated crowd was 270 thousand. I am still working on some shots, will post in a bit.
Eric
Fred, you've outdone yourself again!!! Dude you need to get out there and show you're stuff!!!! Your talented beyond belief!
great shots everyone!
John, we must ahve been a few hundred feet apart. Our pics look similar. I was off new highway but in that first parking lot
nice shot of hte red bull! I caught a few shots but not with the fire spewing out. excellent catch!
wow great pics everybody
i went to FRG both days and it was well worth it...
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-Eric
Here are a few Blue Angel Shots from Yesterday.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95...x_JonAA810.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95..._JoneAA588.jpg
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Those were some great pics.
You guys managed to get some of me too 8)
All I have to say is 'more power to ya'
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Just some FYI . . . .
1) I turns out the F16 did not have a serious engine problem(even though it was an emergency). Some of the damage was due to P51 :lol: the pilot constantly having to turn his engines up and down to stay in formation with t6he old warbird caused his engine to overheat. (At least that's what Jet Center Maint. told the ATM. :wink:
Also the Angels did depart on Sunday
2)There were people that called the Police about low-flying Jets around buildings but nothing was said about Bttleships in NY harbor :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)
Fred, I had to stop thje video halfway and commend you. YOu really know how put all that enthusiasm into something really spectacular!
Fred, Have to tell you, Screw the Sam Chiu;s of the world, you really great with that camera!
Tom, Fred, Moose, Urban it was great to meet all of you guys. Had alot of fun, what a day for the show. I heard on the scanner that they closed the whole Jones Beach State Park at around noon as they reached their 300 thousand person capacity. Couple of the pilots reported about 7 or 8 mile traffic line from the toll booths on the Meadowbrook. Both the 15 and 16 demos were much better on saturday I thought. They had the burners on more. Anyone know why the f-15 bailed out of the heritage flight half way through on sunday? I thought the blues put on one of the best shows I have seen in a whileboth days but Sunday was tops. The vapor they were pulling out of the air was sick. With the exception of number 3 messing up on the diamond dirty loop the show was superb. Fred those were the pics I wanted to see posted :D I'm livivng vicariously threw your guys photos, lol
Here is a neat shot
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/temp/ne...6/IMG_2174.jpg
Fred,
That slide show is awesome. What program did you use to create it? Some one I know has been looking for a good slide show program.
Steve
Photostory 3 by Microsoft
That slide show is freakin amazing. I have spent alot of time doing video editing, and it is obvious that you have the touch. The inverting on the beats is on the money, and adds so much to the feeling of the final product.
Looks like they had us both fooled, Fred. From http://www.redbullmig.comQuote:
Originally Posted by Derf
Also found this at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum site:Quote:
The MiG-17F (F for Forsirovannyy-boosted or afterburner-boosted) was the widely produced variant of the MiG-17
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The main difference between the MiG-17 Fresco A and the later MiG-17F was the power plant. The MiG-17F used the more powerful VK-1 F after-burning turbojet which provided a substantial increase in power for takeoff and combat maneuvering over the older Fresco A model (the "F" in MiG-17F stands for Forsirovannyy, meaning "boosted").
Thank You very much, compliments like these are the reason I put soQuote:
Originally Posted by GrummanFan
much work into it! I am touched by all the great comments in this
thread... Thank you all!!! You are a great group of guys and I can not
wait to see you all again soon....oh and Mel, I can not wait to finally
shoot.....um, I mean meet you ;)
sorry if I got too sappy there.... I had a moment! :D
Thanks Moose... I had no idea... Very weird that he just bumped it every now and then...but mainly when inverted!
FRed, I watched it again last night and again, thanks man, really.
I cant imagine how much went into that, but it was just brilliant. Dont ever stop baby!
Thank you very much Mirrodie.....did your wife ever get to see the BBQ video?
so how was the show everyone? when sean tucker got home on monday we drove over and hung out for a while while he broke his airplane again... according to him it was great...
The show was great but Tucker sucked! But that's not a fair assessment if his plane had problems. I'm guessing that's why he was only on for 2 seconds. To bad reallyQuote:
Originally Posted by cancidas
Unfortunately, I only discovered this place today, so I don't know if I (accidentally) saw any of you. I did, however, spend a large part of the weekend watching the air show.
Friday: Headed down from work to FRG for about an hour; not too much going on, mostly regular ops, but I did catch Fat Albert landing on 14 before I had to get back to the office.
Saturday: My original plan (at my girlfriend's suggestion) was to head to Point Lookout and watch the show from there. Once we got there, though, the haze seemed a bit thick, so we (well, I) decided to head over to FRG and check things out there. We spent around 20 minutes near where the Angels were sitting before heading to the shopping center parking lot just up Rt. 110. Most of the arrivals and departures were on Runway 1, so the view wasn't great. The Red Bull Mig took off from 32 and flew over us, and the Angels took off from 14 (and taxied off at this end when they came back), so it wasn't a total wash.
Sunday: Went down to the beach to see the actual show this time (from Field 1). This was a good spot; while plenty of the action was closer to the boardwalk, this spot was down near where most of the planes were turning around, so it wasn't all just straight flight past us. Other than the sheer number of people trying to leave afterwards (I have no problem believing that there were 300,000!) it was quite enjoyable. I only wish I hadn't managed to fill up three 512MB flash cards before the Angels were done!
With the exception of Friday, the weather was very nice for it (and I've got the bad sunburn to prove it!). If nothing else, I've now been taught to always bring a camera to work with me, since I happened to see a couple of the show planes up and about Thursday afternoon.
On the off chance that anyone else from here was near FRG on Saturday, along the fence by the shopping center, I was the one with the scanner, on the ground near the guys with ladders.
I also managed to shoot over 1,500 pictures in two days, which I'm uploading now, and will likely spend the rest of my life changing levels on. If anyone's interested, I'll post a link, and some of the betters ones, after I've done some serious culling.
Finally got a chance to go through my stuff from the weekend, thought I'd share a few:
Looking out the back of the ANG HC-130:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/J..._KC-130_01.jpg
Here are a few of the Blue Angels:
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/J..._BA_162897.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/J...Diamond_02.jpg
Fat Albert's low approach toward the crowd - bet those boaters got quite a view!
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/J...C164763_01.jpg
Departing FRG Sunday after the show - can you say "heat haze"
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/J...A_TailView.jpg :D
john, i love the head on prop shot, sweeeet!
Thanks, Mario. I wish it were just a touch crisper, but I'll live with it :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirrodie
I think those Marine C-130s have some odd props - I think I noticed something that looked like twisted tips (?) on the one that came in when the Harrier ran off the rwy, and you always end up with such great vortices showing in the shots.
Mario and Fred, nice to meet you gentlemen on Thursday. Here's my first post...
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I think the Friday shots are easy to pick out. It was a Great show with alot of haze and right into the sun until the Blue Angels which made for some challenging photography.
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http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...onarrators.jpg
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A true Tomcat fan
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That shot of Fat Albert on the deck is TOPS!!! WOW! It was niceto meet you guys on Thursday.
Top notch shots!!!!!. Sorry Fred next time I'm not shooting backlite conditions!!!!!