mikeew Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 I went to Eastbourne's annual free seaside airshow on saturday to try out my new EOS 400D for the first time. The weather was iffy from the start, with light misty rain and lots of dramatic cloud, unfortunatley this gave me lots of silhouette type photos as the light was side on or head on for most of the flying display. For the mid afternoon section the weather did break with a bit of sun, particularly when the WWII stuff came out to play. Here are the best of a bad bunch :shithappens: . Show openers The Red Arrows., They had to fly their flat show due to the low cloud base, good, but nowhere near as crowd pleasing as the full rolling show. The Blades. Very impressive tight formation flying, most are ex-Red Arrows pilots. Tucano solo display. Chinook, always a guaranateed crowd pleaser, not good for the camera though, due to the vast amount of seaspray generated by the huge downwash. WWII stuff. Mustang shots were great to a huge break in the cloud, Hurricane too. Royal Jordanian Falcons. The Army Eagles Lynx defying gravity. Odd sort for an airshow, made quite a spectacle though, seeing a 747 at 100ft over the sea! Closing the show with apt storm clouds gathering - Typhoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Not too shabby there Mike. Lovely 'air to air' of the Hurricane. Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dswoofie Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Some really nice shots there considering the weather. I like that Lynx one, seems disorientating Karl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiSteve Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Nice pics there mike, great shot of the Lynx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennygman Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 For the first time out and in dodgy weather you did a great job Mike . The lynx shot is a bit special, it's one of the few helicopter displays that truly amazes me. One small critique if I may, with the 747 being as low as you say it would have been great to get some sea in to highlight the point. That said it's one of those things that is much easier to think of after the fact than at the time when you're rightly concentrating on the 'plane itself. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeew Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Cheers for the feedback guys. Steve, good point about the 747, but like you say, in the heat of the moment i was just trying to avoid peoples heads and frame the subject. Aint hindsight a great thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamEM Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) Good photo's, those chinooks always look as if they goin to crash any minute. i'd shat my pants if ever had to get in one Just noticed the Typhoon has only one ASRAAM missile on it's right wing, where did the other one go ? Edited August 21, 2007 by GEM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennygman Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 i] Aint hindsight a great thing![/i] Yeah, the number of times I've looked at one of mine and thought "if only...". Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Great shots, love the head-on of the Reds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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