Farnborough 2010

^^Gord^^ · 1 Aug 2010 at 12:17

The weather when the F/A-18F Super Hornet flew at RIAT was aweful and I ended up with nothing usable so I decided to go to Farnborough on the Friday to have another crack at it.

It also meant I could catch the BAE Systems Typhoon flying with it's weapons load.

A few more photos on my site... http://www.fast-air.co.uk/Farnborough-Air-Show-2010.php

pabloB · 1 Aug 2010 at 12:28

Nice pics Gord!

I forget the typhoon was a capable bomber as well as a fighter!

Any idea what A to A stuff munitions it can carry as that some serious bombage going on with this one!

^^Gord^^ · 1 Aug 2010 at 12:58

The Typhoon has a multirole load out. You've picked up on the Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs) but if you look carefully you can see the air to air stuff as well.....

Red arrows are 4 x AIM-120 AMRAAMs - Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missiles.

Yellow arrows are 2 x AIM-132 ASRAAMs - short range heating seeking (IR) air-to-air missiles.

pabloB · 1 Aug 2010 at 13:17

Crikey!

Thats a capable load out.

Are the fuel tanks removable?

Re the munitions on the fuselage - does the aircraft somehow jettison these before they fire?

Sorry for the questions - I used to be a plane geek and seeing missiles fire from rails.

^^Gord^^ · 1 Aug 2010 at 13:33

Indeed! With that load out he can fight his way to the target, hit multiple ground targets, dump the now empty drop tanks and then fight his way out on internal fuel.

Yes, the fuel tanks are removable. It can have the two wing tanks, the centre tank, the two wing tanks and the centre tank or none at all fitted. They can alos be jettisoned at any time including whilst supersonic.

The A2A missiles are held on with a C style clamp. When they are fired the clamps release and it will fall away from the aircraft before the rocket motor fires and it rapidly reaches Mach 4.

Mr Jones · 1 Aug 2010 at 13:39

^^Gord^^ said:
Indeed! With that load out he can fight his way to the target, hit multiple ground targets, dump the now empty drop tanks and then fight his way out on internal fuel.

Yes, the fuel tanks are removable. It can have the two wing tanks, the centre tank, the two wing tanks and the centre tank or none at all fitted. They can alos be jettisoned at any time including whilst supersonic.

The A2A missiles are held on with a C style clamp. When they are fired the clamps release and it will fall away from the aircraft before the rocket motor fires and it rapidly reaches Mach 4.

Top information there~
Plus, I love number 2!

Capt Doufos · 4 Aug 2010 at 13:07

Some of my pics here: http://www.doufos.co.uk/lightroom/farn2010/

By no means anywhere near as nice as Gord's, but I think they are ok for the light conditions and a Canon 55-250IS

Kainz · 4 Aug 2010 at 15:40

Loving your work Gord. Showed your website to a colleage of mine who love's his combat aircraft and he was in heaven. Recommended you goto Greece and get some shots of their planes

Cosimo · 4 Aug 2010 at 16:49

Another cracking set of pictures. I do like the take-off with that payload.

tonyzero · 4 Aug 2010 at 18:19

are you on flickr Gordon ?

^^Gord^^ · 4 Aug 2010 at 20:56

Capt Doufos said:
Some of my pics here: http://www.doufos.co.uk/lightroom/farn2010/

By no means anywhere near as nice as Gord's, but I think they are ok for the light conditions and a Canon 55-250IS

You've done well but next time you need to have a go at getting some rotor / prop blur. Give 1/250s a go.

Kainz said:
Loving your work Gord. Showed your website to a colleage of mine who love's his combat aircraft and he was in heaven. Recommended you goto Greece and get some shots of their planes

Greece isn't high on my list of places to go with a camera and a radio scanner!

tonyzero said:
are you on flickr Gordon ?

No, flickr has never really appealed to me.

tonyzero · 4 Aug 2010 at 21:22

^^Gord^^; said:
You've done well but next time you need to have a go at getting some rotor / prop blur. Give 1/250s a go.

Greece isn't high on my list of places to go with a camera and a radio scanner!

No, flickr has never really appealed to me.

Maybe you should give it a go as it's another way of letting others see your excellent shots, I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to see all your pictures plus it's helpful to others as they can look at the exif data for each picture and get an idea of what setting and lens you used to get such shots.

Capt Doufos · 5 Aug 2010 at 11:14

^^Gord^^ said:
You've done well but next time you need to have a go at getting some rotor / prop blur. Give 1/250s a go.

Thanks

As for the rotor blur I was trying. It was hard to balance with the poorer light, especially with the Chinook. The Rotor blur makes the photos really.

lukechad · 6 Aug 2010 at 22:35

As ever, stunning Gordon!

Capt Doufos said:
Some of my pics here: http://www.doufos.co.uk/lightroom/farn2010/

By no means anywhere near as nice as Gord's, but I think they are ok for the light conditions and a Canon 55-250IS

What camera was the 55-250 attached to for these? This is the lens I use for my aviation work at the moment, I like your sets. Echoing the above with the shutter speed on the props. Sometimes difficult unless your practiced like Gordon as a prop plane's props are usually spinning faster than the ones on the chinook.

All about experimenting. Id be very proud of those though!

Capt Doufos · 8 Aug 2010 at 10:33

It's on a 400D. Thanks