Air Tattoo 2006

-Neil- · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:19

Evening all, just got back from The Royal International Air Tattoo held at RAF Fairford.
The weather was quite hot at times, I got a nice tan and had a fabulous time.

Shame they were taking off the wrong way! Normally they take off on runway 27, but today was 09 :/

Here are selection of photos from today, still suffering from noise problems due to heat haze like Wednesday.

I was shooting in A/S/M, with M being the mode of choice. For the fast shots I used 1/1000th and from F5 to F8. I have to say the F18F shot below was probably my best of the lot, it just all clicked together.

The rest can be viewed here:

http://www.fs2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=83726&st=0&#entry991600

Comments/critique welcomed.

Zefan · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:21

Some CRACKING shots.

I do love a bit of military air power

:Edit: Infact that F18 shot melts me

:Edit2: and the Fulcrum

benjo · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:23

No.5 is awesome, what is it?

rich_g85 · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:47

benjo said:
No.5 is awesome, what is it?

I too was there, haven't got my pics off the camera yet but No. 5 is an Osprey.

JonnyGLC · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:53

That B52!!!!! Awesome!

rich_g85 · 15 Jul 2006 at 21:56

A random name said:
That B52!!!!! Awesome!

You should have heard/seen it take off, my gawd!!! :cool:

-Neil- · 16 Jul 2006 at 13:35

Cheers guys, was an awesome day. Not as noisy as previous years, but good nonetheless

Neil.

mattbrown91 · 16 Jul 2006 at 14:35

Lancer > all for noise

Flibster · 16 Jul 2006 at 15:57

mattbrown91 said:
Vulcan > Lancer > all for noise

Corrected for you.

mattbrown91 · 16 Jul 2006 at 19:12

Flibster said:
Corrected for you.

Correct me if im wrong, but i dont think the Vulcan flew yesterday

Flibster · 16 Jul 2006 at 20:36

mattbrown91 said:
Correct me if im wrong, but i dont think the Vulcan flew yesterday

It's still a lot louder though....

Can't wait for later this year

Simon/~Flibster

Stelly · 17 Jul 2006 at 10:36

makes me wanna be there even more!!

Stelly

philio16 · 17 Jul 2006 at 11:14

mattbrown91 said:
Lancer > all for noise

A few years back the lancer did a fly past touching the speed of sound....got a sharpish telling off from ATC

Flibster · 17 Jul 2006 at 11:32

philio16 said:
A few years back the lancer did a fly past touching the speed of sound....got a sharpish telling off from ATC

Same with a Tomcat at Mildenhall a few years ago - low level flypast at very close to Mach1

Cue all the car alarms going off.

Simon/~Flibster

philio16 · 17 Jul 2006 at 12:12

Flibster said:
Same with a Tomcat at Mildenhall a few years ago - low level flypast at very close to Mach1

Cue all the car alarms going off.

Simon/~Flibster

Set off my parents house alarm that one did

well...either that or an attempted break in did

mattbrown91 · 17 Jul 2006 at 16:26

If he was to hit Mach 1, it would be the last thing he did in a cockpit

FreeStream · 17 Jul 2006 at 17:58

Dam you ppl with telephoto!!! I only got 18-55

One of the best from the first 150.

Only sorted through 150 of 450

If anyone works out how I did it they get a cookie.

Sparky191 · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:04

Wow. Fantastic!

Rojin · 17 Jul 2006 at 23:11

Nice photos the pair of you, god knows how you got that effect :confused:

I struggled to get anything in focus or not silouheted(sp?). Only just bought a half decent camera so a complete noob, need to find some tutorials and wade through this forum really!

edit:

Couple of pics where you can actually make out the aircraft...:

Osprey again because it is pretty funky.

The poor old Hurricane was there, I just somehow managed to cut it out...

A lot of my pics have been nobbled by a "heat haze" sort of effect (like below) How do I sort that out in the future?

FreeStream · 19 Jul 2006 at 22:33

Aha, my photo's are pants without doing what I did.

You get a cookie if you work out how