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Hank,

 

Outstanding pictures with no fault !

 

 

Question, were where you when you shot these? It would appear in a chase plane in the middle of the course.

 

All but the last would have been shot down just 70 years ago by any and all from the U.S. ! Now your pictures show their true beauty regardless of which country.

 

You do these fantastic picture at the show yearly. Jealous !

 

George

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Hank,

 

Outstanding pictures with no fault !

 

 

Question, were where you when you shot these? It would appear in a chase plane in the middle of the course.

 

All but the last would have been shot down just 70 years ago by any and all from the U.S. ! Now your pictures show their true beauty regardless of which country.

 

You do these fantastic picture at the show yearly. Jealous !

 

George

 

Thank you George for those nice comments in answer to your question thes shots were all taken at ground level. I use to fly out of this field and knowing the turf so to speak you know the best area to set up your equipment. Get there early and and get next to the front where you aren't being bothered with distraction . Don't use a tripod shoot of hand at a fast debugger speed set camera on manual and at infinity. Anticipate and don't shoot on in spurts time your action and squeeze shutter and follow thorough like shooting a rifle. Plan to take plenty of shots . I use only one lens on my Nikon D700 a Leica R 350 F4.8 .

Best regards

Hank

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Hank,

 

The # 3 Is I believe a Lear 23/24 OPS painted released in 1963?

And the fastest the P51_____what we would give to fly that `rocket' !

 

Bill Lear _RIP, had over 182 patents when he died. Including the 1st `working car radio' and the awful 8-track stereo. Wide range of GENIUS for a fellow with as I recall only about 8 grades of schooling.

 

I don't think HE makes then like that anymore.

 

Do you read me ? "You Sir, are cleared for the active runway for departure, have as good day !"

 

G-

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Hank,

 

As always stunning shots. I am interested a bit how you do these shots.

What ISO, aperture and shutter speed are typical?

Also, how much do you need to crop?

Thanks.

 

I have been using either a Canon Mark II or a Nikon D700 with my leica 350 4.8 . I generally shoot at around 4000 at f 8 at infinity sent on manual. 400 -600 ISO. With the quality of the 350 I find I can crop on 1/2 3/4 size more then what I shoot. . I have found the leica allows me to crop and still retain quality imageless.

Hank

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Fantastic series. What is the twin engine flying wing?

Northrop N9M flying wing. This was a one third scale proof-of-concept aircraft to demonstrate the feasability of a flying wing bomber. From this prototype, Northrop went on to develop the full size B-35 bomber which first flew in 1946 and was developed into the B-49 jet bomber. Although these aircraft never entered service, the technology they pioneered eventually became the basis of the B-2 "stealth bomber".

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Thank You very much, Hank.

There were studies about flying wings by the Horten brothers, german designers.

 

The big difference is, at our days, about materials.

 

Luft '46 - WWII German aircraft projects

 

I want to thank you for the info you attached to your comments,

great reading. I must admit the Germans aircraft designers were one step ahead of the rest!

 

Thanks for sharing

 

Hank

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