Aviation

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Getting the Old Timey Feel Back

Static’s are a great time to be working with black and whites and is something that i always look for. On Monday we had 55mph winds and the morning yielded lots of rain. Thankfully by 1330 the skies lifted and we had great puffies to work with. The crews needed the good weather too. Most [...]

April 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off
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Getting Around the Crowds

Working any airshow there is always the element of the people around the aircraft, often creating situations that make it difficult to get shots of just the planes. Now I’m not complaining because without those people these planes wouldn’t be here. Preserving the heritage and sharing it with todays generation is not only essential to [...]

April 20th, 2012 | Comments Off
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Working Hard and Hardly Working

Yesterday the planes flew over to Wright Patterson Air Field for the memorial flight that occurred today. Yesterday truly marked the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, for it was April 18th that the raid took place. In honor of this 20 B25′s went up at 1230 to get into formation to go over the [...]

April 19th, 2012 | Comments Off
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The Gathering

Has anyone wondered what it would look like to see a row of B-25 Mitchell Bombers, or any mass of bombers, come taxing down the ramp about ready to take off on a mission? I know that I’ve always wondered what it looked like. The best shots of those masses of WWII planes are in [...]

April 18th, 2012 | Comments Off
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The B-25′s Arrive

One of the great joys of working with Aircraft is that you get to see a lot of really cool planes and learn a lot of diverse history. Last week I blogged about going to the Doolittle Reunion which is truly a celebration not for the public but for the men that flew that daring [...]

April 17th, 2012 | Comments Off