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Today I saw.....
Topic Started: Jul 17 2010, 08:56 PM (552 Views)
desmojen
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My first Raptor display.

:omg:

That is all.

Jen.
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MemberOne
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No pictures Jen ...I here it does a nearly good take off as the Airbus 319 :wooo:[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDz6sEdrcfM[/YOUTUBE]
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Seamus
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desmojen
Jul 17 2010, 09:56 PM
My first Raptor display.

:omg:

Ditto.......there are no words.

Luckily, I have another chance tomorrow to try and find some :rock:

Pictures to follow in due course B)
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desmojen
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I honestly didn't really believe the hype. I mean, Typhoon is pretty impressive right? And the Rafale cuts a nifty, Zorro like, dash.
And Hornets, they make lots of noise, and Eagles, they make lots of that cloud stuff when they go around corners, surely it can't be much better?


Er, yeah. It can.

I was immediately impressed with how damn fast it was. Normally jet displays are quite critical in terms of energy management, but this thing was just bleeding excess horsepower all over the place.
Manoeuvrable like nothing I've seen before, not in the flick knife manner of a Rafale or a Gripen. More like a fly. Literally. I'd love to know what the max G is in that display.

So it does a high alpha pass, like 40 degrees high or something stupid, really slowly. Then he just opens the throttles and goes up, no nose drop, nothing.
I've never seen a jet prop hang before, but he did it.
I've never seen anything outside an Extra do a deliberate flat spin in a display. He did that too, from a tailslide iirc.

But most of all, it made the most noise ever and looked the most like a robot of any jet ever (it's that golden canopy and the metallic paint that does it).

I've watched the videos and they do it no justice at all, the thing is awesome, ridiculous, and stupidly cool. Almost worth the gate all by itself in fact.
I think the only thing I can imagine being anywhere near as impressive display wise might be something Russian, but I'm guessing.

For me, the most impressive thing other than the F-22 today was XH558 when she did an old skool climb out. She went almost straight up from take off, and sent all the van alarms off around us, made my laugh :lol:

Jen.
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Seamus
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Couldn't resist this one.....

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B)
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Seamus
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Still unsure what words to use to describe this incredible machine, but I think this sums it up nicely

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And now off to bed for another 4 AM start for tomorrows departures :rock:
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Harriet
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Seamus - your pictures are just lovely (and so much closer than mine!!!)


OK, so I just grabbed the camera, got the zoom, plonked it on and dashed out into the back garden. Look what popped out from behind the trees two doors down!

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and a little later ...

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It's many moons since I tried taking pictures of aeroplanes, and they seem to move a lot quicker now!
I think I saw a Charlie 130(?) doing a vertical climb too - which was mindblowing! But I might be wrong!



Harriet - not complaining about living not far from the end of the Farnborough runway for this week! (Unless I'm on the 'phone!)
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Vincewb
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Ah it was good, yes, yes, yes, very toyt like a tiger
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Grant
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A very good critique Jen - you should be a sales person!

Seamus your shots are stunning. I didn't take a good look at your rig at Yeovilton, but you and it are a cracking combination. What do you shoot in - raw or jpeg? And what is your camera?

I am never convinced my auto focus is upto the job, particularly fast jets, and without a split screen I can't focus accurately in manual. Plus I am definitely out of practice!

cheers

Grant
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Seamus
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Thanks Grant (and Harriet!) :)

Camera body is a Canon 40D, with a Canon EF 100-400 L IS lens. The lens is a good one, and very quick to focus. I'd recommend setting the focus mode to AI servo as this is best suited to shooting moving objects, maybe you'd have more luck with that? Wouldn't fancy trying manual focus- you'd only get one chance during a pass to get the shot you want, I don't like them odds!

I do shoot in RAW- didn't get on with it at first, but Rich C told me off when I said I was going back to JPEG so I stuck with it :lol: Glad I did though in truth, much higher image quality and there's more chance of saving a shot that over/underexposed during editing.

HTH

Shaun :)
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MemberOne
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Ok I watched the F22 Display on You Tube ...the take off was impressive ..but the rest of it the Mig 29 was doing 15 years ago ..sorry but I wasn't that impressed with it
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Grant
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Ta mate.

I'll have to give shooting in the RAW a go. (Fully dressed, of course!)

cheers

Grant
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peebeep
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That would make an interesting headline Grant:

'Naked photographer arrested, shock, horror, outrage'. :rofl:

You've just cheered me up a little bit.

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seanrgb
Jul 25 2010, 04:40 PM
..but the rest of it the Mig 29 was doing 15 years ago ..

No way Jose!

This little beauty can demonstrate it's entire routine WITHIN the constraints of the base peremiter not within the same county, and this one does it invisibly too Sean

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Seamus
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Lets be honest Seany, Youtube isn't quite the same as the real thing ;)

Besides, the MiG-29 OVT has three dimensional thrust vectoring, so is obviously bound to be that little bit more manoeuvrable. I was impressed with the MiG when I saw it in 2006, and whilst it may be better at the fancy stuff, the Raptor would quite frankly piss all over it. A phenomenal machine B)
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