Fresh pict's
 

Pan, Wait . .Click/pan/Click

(from about 20 min's ago, above my house)

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freaking awesome!

They move sooo fast ...

Island,

Sea Fair?

Island - great pics!

Thanks Steve.

I love it when the turn-n-burn pulls the condensation over the plane. . . it really shows the angle of attack.

I took those shots zoomed back (wide angle), so that I could simply point in the general direction, and shoot (no view-finder, too fast . .and too CLOSE!)




yep, Ice, Seafair. http://www.seafair.com/x407.asp

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I'll have another photo-op tomorrow. :)

Here's a snapshot from the flowerbed in the parking lot. I almost wish I had shot this one with a film camera. (shrug) I guess I don't usually print the flowers anyway, though.

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And a shot from my last trip to Seattle. It's not as good as I had hoped -- bad marine layer dropped the mountain into shadow before the foreground, so I couldn't get the light that I wanted -- but it isn't _that_ bad. Is it?

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Great photos Island911. I work in the 2 Union building downtown. We have had quite the view this week.

Nice old Torino in Greenport, NY.

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Let's fakkin try it again...

For some odd reason I have the urge to slide over the hood :D

I see a lot of the Dale Earnhart decals on the back of pickup windows. You know the one's I mean, sometimes they have angel wings on the number "3". They're some sort of tribute to a fallen hero.

Well yesterday I was in Fort Lauderdale at a McDonald's drive thru and was behind this van. I think South Florida is one of the very few places you would see this...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1123460520.jpg

Dan,
You should look into the online digital photo printers. They are inexpensive and in my experience do a very good job. FWIW I have been using Shutterfly.

I worked with a guy who left the Navy to do that kind of work, actually. Really fascinating -- I guess there are whole businesses that don't own printers and rely wholly on services like that for their office printing needs. The problem isn't really the cost so much as it is the quality. Even with an 8MP camera, I can't print with quite the quality that I can from good negatives. Heck, maybe the digitals look better these days, and I'm just an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy who's stuck in an obsolete technology. I can't stand the idea of printing from digital. Am I broken?

I used to do this type of work and with an 8MP camera you should get prints that are VERY good up to at least 11x17 if not bigger and only a critical eye would be able to discern any digital issues. I routinely print 8x10 images from my 6MP camera at 300ppi and they are stunning. Color correction and doing the resizing/cropping correctly are a big help. With Shutterfly, once the image is uploaded it will give you cropping and resizing choices to take best advantage of what you have.

If you want, send me the file, I'll check color correction and sizing, upload it and get a print made and sent to you. Should not cost more than $5 and that is a stretch.

Ok, that sounds interesting enough to be worth a test. I'll give it a shot -- you have a PM.

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Dixons - the high street high tech store in the UK, today stopped selling 35mm cameras. Digital is outselling 35mm by 15 to 1.

Guys like me are a slowly dying breed. I'm going to go spend the evening in the darkroom printing 4x5s to commemorate. (sigh)

Hey! That's one nice looking white 87 in this pic. Looks like the trip up to the Cherohalla Skyway. We need to do that again!

Here's the view at our stopping point that day:
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More here:
Oshkosh 2005 Pics

Cool, I took this photo from your oshkosh library. I fly these.

Actually I fly the ones with the XL on the tail on the right side of the picture.

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the F5. one of my all-time faves. not much of a payload capacity though

Similar. But these are both T38's. The black one is an A model and the gray one is a newly upgraded T-38C model with the slightly more powerful engines.

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May 6, 2005

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wow. could've fooled me. forgot all about the trainer. they do use the same platform, no? so how does the F20 figure in all of this? (besides the single engine)

The F-5 has some different spraybars in the engine that makes it more powerful and only the rear cockpit is present. So the nose looks much longer. Some countries still use it. iran for one.

I'm not sure the F-20 was ever put into production.

Few more differnces between the T-38 and F-5... different engines and intakes... slightly differnet wing planform and geometry, and most of all differnt fuselage.. the F-5 (sinlge seat versions aprt) have a longer and slightly flatter and fatter fuselage...mainly towards the front....to get the twin cannons in and to increase internal volume...avioincs etc etc.

Nose is also longer...

F-5A and B are pretty thin on the operational side, however few more nations still use the F-5E and F..

F-5G was renamed the F-20 because it was so different....and praised by Chuck Yeager as the best dog fighter he had ever flown.

USN and USAF wanted it as dissimilar ACM aircraft, but cost precluded such a dedicated programme.... F-16 and F-18s used instead....as well as F-5s and A-4s...Only three F-20s were built and only one survives.

F-5s also served as the basis for the X-29 and the SSB Research aircraft
http://www.rosamondproperties.com/sonic_boom.html
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/x-29.htm

Museum of Natural History.

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Taken in Germany of course. A3 2.0 T Sportback. (run in for 2000 miles)

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Hey I've got one of those too. Taken in GM, VW Golf TDI.

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Hmmm...post 359 (not that I'm counting)

That's a sweet shot, Russ. Where is it?

NYC

NYC using Google Earth

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And it is hanging from the ceiling where I work!