Airplane Pics

[zulu01]

32877[/ATTACH]809]Do all you photographers realize that Fi-Fi will be at the Rocky Mtn. Regional Airport Fly-in this coming weekend? That could make some great pics of a bird many of us don't get to see very often.

More pics here: http://www.ar-15.co/threads/113259-R...-Weekend/page4

[fly boy]

Bump!!

I would give up a nut to fly an F-15. That's the Jet that made me join the Air Force, and if it wasn't for a lying ass recruiter I would be a pilot today.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I would give up a nut to fly an F-15. That's the Jet that made me join the Air Force, and if it wasn't for a lying ass recruiter I would be a pilot today.

Such a beautiful aircraft... it will stay being the backbone of USAF for decades.

[fly boy]

Such a beautiful aircraft... it will stay being the backbone of USAF for decades.

I will get to see them every day when I'm in Texas. hopefully I can talk to the other instructors and maybe get a joy ride before I leave.

[Quib]

A few of my photos from the Rocky Mountain Airshow: http://quibphotography.com/2013/08/1...-airshow-kbjc/

[rondog]

A few of my photos from the Rocky Mountain Airshow: http://quibphotography.com/2013/08/1...-airshow-kbjc/

Great stuff as usual, sir! I caught them down in The Springs wednesday. Didn't have the airshow, but also didn't have the crowds and hideous parking hell either. Very relaxed and awesome!

[Quib]

Great stuff as usual, sir! I caught them down in The Springs wednesday. Didn't have the airshow, but also didn't have the crowds and hideous parking hell either. Very relaxed and awesome!

Thanks.

Yep, COS would have been a great photo op!

[Hoser]

A few pics taken from the Yosemite fires a few miles from Half Dome. Cell phone pics instead of a regular camera. I wont make that mistake again.

We did some work in Oregon and Idaho before we were sent to the Rim Fire in Yosemite. MAFFS 3, 8 and 9 are holding down the fort while we get some down time. Its been non stop since early June.

I was slumming on MAFFS 5 instead of #2 like usual. 5 and I dont get along some days...

From a few miles away there was a lot of smoke in the air. A lot.


Up close it looked even worse.




During a drop we sometimes get close to the flames. Normally we work directly for the ground firefighters to put retardant exactly where they want it.




A pic of our shadow along a dozer line. 130-150 feet above the terrain.


MAFFS 9 reenforcing a dozer line around dusk. The two puffs of smoke are from the lead plane (King Air or OV-10) telling us exactly where to start and stop dropping.


Tanker 10 (DC-10) getting busy.



Dropping right next to a dozer line and encampment.


And then along the side of a ridge.



The gang from 5.

[ColoWyo]

Great pics Hoser. I remember seeing those OV-10's on the line at Ft. Wainwright in Fairbanks. I thought they'd be a blast to fly as a lead plane.

[Delfuego]

Look Ma! No Pilot!
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