The theme of the day is water bombers. We haven't seen them in the past few years since they were probably busy putting out forest fires somewhere.
Picking up water from the lake
Helicopters can put out fires too!
The water drop sequence
Two planes at once!
Closer view of the water bombing action
More pictures to come in the next few days.
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- Margo Timmins
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I should throw in a gratuitous picture of a hot chick rubbing suntan lotion on her tits. That was probably my highlight of the airshow this year.
aerius: I'll vote for you if you sleep with me. Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
2nd batch of pictures, these ones turned out nicer.
F/A-18 and Spitfire
Harvards in formation
Harvards making a heart
Snowbirds doing the Canada goose formation
Just a little close on the head-on pass
More formation flying by the Snowbirds
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I'm not sure why people choose 'To Love is to Bury' as their wedding song...It's about a murder-suicide
- Margo Timmins
When it becomes serious, you have to lie
- Jean-Claude Juncker
Awesome pictures. (Although why is there so much noise on the shots despite the lighting being so good? Did you crop them?).
A wrote:I should throw in a gratuitous picture of a hot chick rubbing suntan lotion on her tits. That was probably my highlight of the airshow this year.
Meh, leave it, I don't think that anyone would be interested in that. Got any good engineering shots of the planes on the ground instead?
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That's not an F-16 it's an F/A-18 nice pics though
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DEATH wrote:Awesome pictures. (Although why is there so much noise on the shots despite the lighting being so good? Did you crop them?).
They're really cropped, something like 90% of the original was cropped out on some of them. The rest is probably haze & smoke from all the planes messing up the jpeg compression.
Zablorg wrote:Cool. I've never seen a waterplane in action before. Are they very fast compared to regular ones?
No. They're fairly slow, they were probably the slowest aircraft in the entire airshow except for the helicopter.
Kartr_Kana wrote:That's not an F-16 it's an F/A-18
Oops! I knew that!
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I'm not sure why people choose 'To Love is to Bury' as their wedding song...It's about a murder-suicide
- Margo Timmins
When it becomes serious, you have to lie
- Jean-Claude Juncker
Marko Dash wrote:just so we don't have to change the title
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Thank you.
I was at least expecting the birds.
I thought there might be an offhand chance that Aerius might get shots of the sun tan lotion lady in here but I at least expected to see some boobies of the avian variety.
And really, birds go with an air show theme don't they?
I do really like the pictures of the water carrying planes. They are something I haven't really seen in action before. Any idea how dangerous it is to be in the direct path of the water once it's dropped? I imagine that it could hit pretty hard depending on the speed of the plane, the height a which the water was dropped and whether it stays together or spreads out before hitting.
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It actually pisses me off we don't get such colorful birds up in the NE? If we had booby's and gannets instead of seaguls, I think I could at least appreciate the colour.
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