Dec 17th - AAR with Fagin 32

[DamienB]

Some piccies of pointy things airborne 100 years to the day... with thanks to the crew of TriStar "Fagin 32" for the ride:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin321.jpg
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin322.jpg
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin323.jpg
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin324.jpg

And some of the flypast over Brize:

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin325.jpg
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/100years2.jpg
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/pprune/fagin326.jpg

[Chris Kebab]

Great Photos.

Neat posting.

[Impiger]

Great Pictures; shame about the jugs on the fast pointy things though - flying for hours anyone?

Understand that there was also an event at Glasgow airport to commemorate to the minute the first powered, sustained, controlled heavier than air flight. :ok:

[whowhenwhy]

Oh, is that what they look like? I was just controlling the towline (well, I use the word controlling in its loosest sense) and thought you were all just green blobs with sone bloke out back providing all the voices. Ahhh, real ac (even the tonkas) and a blue sky. I'd almost forgotten what the real world looked like! Cheers!:ok:

[BLW Skylark 4]

Damien B,

Great pics, wish I had the opportunity to shoot those sort of images, I have to make do with the ground!

One question though, what did you use - are these digital or scans of a tranny? I have a Canon 10D with 100-400 IS L series lens but these look sharper even after my best efforts in PS7.

Cheers,

'BLW'

[hotshots!]

Great pics DamienB - do you have any more of the F3s?

[DamienB]

Thanks for the comments guys.

BLW - all taken on a 10D with 28-135 IS. The 100-400 shouldn't be giving you soft results - I'm on my 4th 10D, two of which had to go back because of focusing errors, so you might have a duff one?

hotshots - loads! Some more available via the URL on the pics.

[stillin1]

Not flying for hrs.
New limits on the jugs = no hassle to carry em:cool:

[BEagle]

No hassle carrying the jugs? I'm sure that'll please the folk on 1312 Flt down in the Islas Malvinas - because there'll be even less excuse to keep a tanker down there wasting its time!

[BLW Skylark 4]

Damien,

Thanks for the reply. Have the photos been tweaked or sharpened at all in PS7 or the like? If not methinks a call to Canon is needed asap!

Cheers,

"BLW"

[stillin1]

Beags you old fool,
Tis like beer my dear chap - sod the size of the glass, I still want it filled again. Rule 1 = Fuel turned into combat, LL, going faster / higher is never wasted. Especially in the wrong hemesphere. :D

[Fox_4]

Loved the pics. Especially since I cycled through the hose on that sortie.

Nice to be flying on the centenary of flight and get your picture taken in the process

Tank limits, whatever, just mean flying longer in a jet! Enjoy it.

Merry Christmas

[Impiger]

I'm with Deliverance; even if the limits on g and speed have been relaxed after all this time you still 'canny beat the laws of physics' and more fuel = more weight which = less specific excess power to turn into combat performance. Even when empty the additional drag of the tanks must reduce combat performance. More importantly, the aircraft was designed to be fought clean; if you train in a tanked fit you are not training how you will fight.

Perhaps we should continue this debate on a separate thread as it is slightly off message which was really about some great photography.

:ok:

[DamienB]

Don't mind me guys, debate away.

BLW - just resized down to 700 pix wide and unsharp masked (1.05/60/0) - but that would make even a crappy soft pic look half decent to be honest.

[BEagle]

Mass-debating FJ mates - no changes there then!;)

Happy Humbug-tide from the outer Martian atmosphere!

[DaveyBoy]

Pics from the other side of the towline...

Afraid this encounter with Fagin wasn't on the historic anniversary... it was on Dec 18th, but I thought you guys might want to admire yourselves all the same ;-)

http://www.davehiggins.org.uk/gfx/kif_0066.jpg

http://www.davehiggins.org.uk/gfx/kif_0069.jpg

[hotshots!]

How do you insert a picture into your reply?

[DaveyBoy]

You have to put the image up somewhere else on the net, and then you can link to it by putting IMG in square brackets before the URL, and /IMG in square brackets after.

[Impiger]

BEags,

Cheap (ish) shot. Seem to remember you tried the fast lane for a while!

Merry Christmas:ok:

[warplane.co.uk]

DaveyBoy,

A friend was in that Tristar on Thursday...Only one Nimrod all afternoon

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/SPEC%20INST/x8.JPG

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/SPEC%20INST/x9.JPG

Will dig out some more later.

[DaveyBoy]

Cheers, much appreciated.

http://www.davehiggins.org.uk/gfx/beam.jpg

http://www.davehiggins.org.uk/gfx/flightdeck.jpg