RAAF Museum - Warning (BroadBand)

Skippy · January 31, 2007

Yesterday my cousin and I took a trip to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook, just outside of Melbourne.

I have never been there before, and was keen to give my new wide angle lens a bit of a try out

Having never been to the RAAF Museum I have to tell you I was truly impressed by what we saw, and the fact that the entry is FREE

To access the Museum you must go through security, show proof of identy and sign in, once you sign in you are given an Orange Pass that you must hand back when you leave the grounds.

The RAAF Museum is a non profit organization, has extremely friendly staff, and hangers full of the most amazing flying machines I have ever seen in my life.

I can only imagine the amount of hours of hard work that have been put into restoring the aircraft held on the Base.

The displays will have you trying to imagine what it must have been like to fly in them..... kinda scary too when you see that many of those old Planes were only a type of canvas cover on the wings :huh

Many of the items found in the RAAF Museum date back to 1921.

As well as having all those Amazing Flying Machines on display, you even get to see a flying display outside on the runway :clap :clap

Our Pilot for this day was Mr Mike FALLS Snr.

Now one of these days I am gonna learn to write names of things down when I go out shooting.......forgive me :rolleyes

So here you go, the photo story of my first visit to the RAAF Museum.
All the images taken inside the Museum were shot at 1600 and 800 ISO all shot taken hand held (Lens used = Canon 10mm-22mm)

Shots taken outside were taken with both the 10-22mm and 70-200mm.

Larger images found here ... http://ozzieskip.smugmug.com/gallery/2415028/1/126649626#P-1-15

Enjoy.......... Skippy

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devbobo · January 31, 2007

barb

Very nice work skip

Teeds · January 31, 2007

Nice compositions.

You gave me some ideas that I need to try the next time I am in Midland / Odessa at the Commemorative Air Force museum.

bsvirginian · January 31, 2007

I noticed some USA markings on some of the planes. As a matter of fact the Marine prop plane looks like an AT-6 or SNJ-3. I flew in an SNJ-3 saturday.
BS

Teeds wrote:

Nice compositions.

You gave me some ideas that I need to try the next time I am in Midland / Odessa at the Commemorative Air Force museum.

Skippy · January 31, 2007

devbobo wrote:

barbbarb

Very nice work skip

Thanks David, the Museum is well worth a visit, and the exhibits are in Mint condition ...... Skippy
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Skippy · January 31, 2007

Teeds wrote:

Nice compositions.

You gave me some ideas that I need to try the next time I am in Midland / Odessa at the Commemorative Air Force museum.

You really need a wide angle lens for inside these type of places, I knew that before I went, and with my lens less than a week old, I thought that Museum would be a great place to go try it out, one for the size of the Planes and two because I figured the lighting would be pretty bad inside.

I'm very pleased with performance of the Canon 10mm-22mm

Thanks for looking Teeds, and welcome to the Dgrin forum

..... Skippy
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Nikolai · January 31, 2007

Skippy,
I thought you guys are still using kangaroo-driven baggies, not the airplanes...

JK, nice shots, partner!

Skippy · January 31, 2007

bsvirginian wrote:

I noticed some USA markings on some of the planes. As a matter of fact the Marine prop plane looks like an AT-6 or SNJ-3. I flew in an SNJ-3 saturday.
BS

The plane used for the Flight demonstation was orginally from USA

It's a HARVARD 111 built by North American Aviation in USA and completed in 1946, with a total amount of flying hours = 8944hrs.

Wing Span = 42 ft / 12.8 Metres
Length = 28.9 ft / 8.8 Metres
Height = 6.2 ft / 1.8 Metres

Fuel Capacity 88 Imperial Gallons / 400 Litres
Fuel Type Aviation Gasoline 100/130 Octain (100 Low Lead Alternative)
Brakes Single Drum type, Hydraulically operated
Max. all up weight = 5600Lbs / 2086 Kg
VNE = 205 Knots (253 MPH) = 407 Klm/hr

This Plane is fitted with a Pratt & Whitney R1340-AN1, 9 Cylinder, Single Row, Radial, Air Cooled Engine.

They painted it to represent an aircraft that was part of the RNZAF Aerobatic Team .

The Pilot Mike FALLS Snr looked very proud to be flying this Plane

Thanks for looking........ Skippy

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Skippy · January 31, 2007

Nikolai wrote:

I thought you guys are still using kangaroo-driven baggies, not the airplanes...

JK, nice shots, partner!

No no no you got that all wrong, that's why they built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, so the Kangaroos could cross every day at 4pm, they shut the Bridge down to allow the Kangaroos to cross... the planes frighten them

..... Skippy

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christulk · February 1, 2007

Skip,

Great work! Glad you went to see the Museum. It is WORLD CLASS.

Great shots.

Mike Falls is a visiting pilot with the Museum. That Harvard is his and he very kindly donates his time and aircraft on a regular basis to display his beautiful aircraft.

The Museum holds the flying displays every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 1pm (weather permitting).

The RAAF fly's its own, CT4, Tiger Moth, Mustang, Winjeel and Sopwith Pup.

The museum has over 100 volunteers who donate their vast experience and time to keep the aircraft looking so good. Without them the Museum would be but a shell of what it is now.

So glad you went and enjoyed it.

David_S85 · February 1, 2007

Good writeup and pics, Skippy. You have the right lens now for that sort of shooting. Did you get to try any exposure bracketing?

Skippy · February 1, 2007

christulk wrote:

Skip,

Great work! Glad you went to see the Museum. It is WORLD CLASS.

Great shots.

Mike Falls is a visiting pilot with the Museum. That Harvard is his and he very kindly donates his time and aircraft on a regular basis to display his beautiful aircraft.

The Museum holds the flying displays every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 1pm (weather permitting).

The RAAF fly's its own, CT4, Tiger Moth, Mustang, Winjeel and Sopwith Pup.

The museum has over 100 volunteers who donate their vast experience and time to keep the aircraft looking so good. Without them the Museum would be but a shell of what it is now.

So glad you went and enjoyed it.

Thanks Chris, we did give a nice donation as we walked in, more than a just a few gold coins, it was worth every cent

I'll be going again for sure, I loved it

we were lucky there were some workmen doing something inside the Museum, and so they all the lights on inside, and later they turned them off, so were had already photographed most of what was inside that Hanger

The light as you know is so low that you really need a tripod.

We had a great day, even my cousin said he'd like to go back too

Thanks for looking Chris........ Skippy
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Skippy · February 1, 2007

David_S85 wrote:

Good writeup and pics, Skippy. You have the right lens now for that sort of shooting. Did you get to try any exposure bracketing?

Thanks David,
Didnt try exposure bracketing, because we didn't take the tripods inside, figured there would be plenty of light in there and then found out there wasnt

I should have tried it on the HARVARD 111 but it never crossed my mind to do it

silly me .... but I will try it out hopefully this weekend

Thanks for all your help on that David........ Skippy
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allensfoto · February 1, 2007

nice pix.. thanks for sharing..

Skippy · February 1, 2007

allensfoto wrote:

nice pix.. thanks for sharing..

Your welcome Allen

....... Skippy
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Swartzy · February 7, 2007

Whooohooooo
Nice shots there Skippy! Looks like lots of fun. I really enjoyed the inside shots, even though it was darker, the feel is great!....no tripod huh? You did very well in there. Thanks for sharing.

Antonio Correia · February 7, 2007

Hi Skippy,
Very nice pictures you have of those plains.
Without tripod ...

Health !:D

Skippy · February 7, 2007

Swartzy wrote:

Nice shots there Skippy! Looks like lots of fun. I really enjoyed the inside shots, even though it was darker, the feel is great!....no tripod huh? You did very well in there. Thanks for sharing.

Hi ya Swartzy, yeah I know now that next time I need to get the tripod out of the car, I was happy with the results considering everything shot was hand held, and luckily there were hardly any people there.

The Canon 10mm-22mm is quite an amazing little lens, and its very light.
I'm really enjoying it, I'm amazed at what you can fit in without having to step too far away from the actual subject

I'd like to go back again....... thanks for looking

... Skippy
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Skippy · February 7, 2007

Antonio Correia wrote:

Hi Skippy,
Very nice pictures you have of those plains.
Without tripod ...
Health !:D

We were lucky that most of the shots we got were with extra lights on in the building, they turned them off later and boy it was a whole lot darker once they did that.

The Planes are huge, the Museum's Exhibits are of hight standards, and the layouts and display areas are outstanding

Thanks for looking.......... Skippy
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RAAF Museum - Warning (BroadBand)

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