Old time aviator

Flyjets1Flyjets1 Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
edited February 21, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
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  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    I love this shot.thumb.gif Not long ago, I flew an SNJ variant and had a real ball. The senses really reel when you're looping through the skies in one of these planes.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    I stopped at that same airport - on 441 between Apopka and Eustis - last week, but that
    plane was hangered, but the door was open. I stopped in the hanger and talked to a guy there,
    but the planes really weren't in a position to shoot them. I shot the cockpit of a stick plane he flies,
    but it's not a particularly good shot.

    You were lucky to catch the plane outside. There are several interesting planes hangered
    there, but only that old Pan Am plane is always available to shoot.

    Back when I had a private pilot license, I've landed at that airport. There used to be a
    large dip in the runway that made for an interesting touch-down. I think they fixed it.

    You in any of camera clubs in the area?
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
    http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
  • Flyjets1Flyjets1 Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Tony,

    This wasn't shot at Apopka. It was taken at Sun n Fun a year or two ago.

    I belong to the Orlando Camera Club (www.orlandocameraclub.com). Very active with more than 600 members. Stop by some time.

    Glen
    (A-10/B757/B767/B737)
  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Flyjets1 wrote: »
    Tony,

    This wasn't shot at Apopka. It was taken at Sun n Fun a year or two ago.

    I belong to the Orlando Camera Club (www.orlandocameraclub.com). Very active with more than 600 members. Stop by some time.


    Glen
    (A-10/B757/B767/B737)


    So do I. I've been a member there for several years.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
    http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
  • W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Nice aircraft shot! thumb.gif
    Flyjets1 wrote: »
    I belong to the Orlando Camera Club ... Stop by some time.
    TonyCooper wrote: »
    So do I. I've been a member there for several years.
    ... and good to see SmugMug bringing folks together in a way their own camera club can't! :D
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  • FlyNavyFlyNavy Registered Users Posts: 1,350 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Very nice shot!
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    W.W. Webster wrote: »
    Nice aircraft shot! thumb.gif
    ... and good to see SmugMug bringing folks together in a way their own camera club can't! :D

    Average attendance is about 80. Even though we wear nametags,
    it's too big a group to know that many other members. I doubt if
    "Flyjets1" is on his nametag, and I look slightly different from my
    avatar here.

    What he might do is recognize some of the subjects and locations
    where photos I've posted in the DGrin forums were shot.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Very nice!
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  • Flyjets1Flyjets1 Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2012
    Thanks to all. I don't consider myself to be a very good photographer... although i do try.
    I've been flying aircraft for 33 years so that's what I normally gravitate to. Been flying military fighters and heavy transport jets and simply can't get enough of it.

    stop by www.500px.com/flyjets and give some of my pix a thumbs up if you have the time.

    By the way... 500px.com is one of the fastest growing photo sharing sites on the web...the photographic talent there is often mind blowing...

    tailwinds

    Glen
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