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Fleet week pix...
« on: December 18, 2007, 04:05:14 AM »
San Francisco, lots of nice pix but especially check out the link to the video of the low level passes done by the Angels over the bay. Very cool. You'll see the still shots first then at the bottom of the page there is a link and you'll see exactly what's going on there.

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2007, 04:22:46 AM »
Some incredible photographs in there. Absolutely stunning.

Didn't someone file a lawsuit against Fleetweek this year, claiming that the environmental damage would be so great that it should be banned?
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2007, 04:36:48 AM »
Some of the low level shots were phenomenal.  Man, I need a better camera.
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2007, 04:48:51 AM »
Wow! Those are freakin great! Excellent photography! Thats a great camera to be able to catch all that motion with no blur. The way it stop all the rotors on the helos, I thought they would fall out of the sky! cheesy
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 05:32:31 AM »
The low pass pics are the best.  He even took some video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7rAUu8djZ4
Good stuff right there!
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2007, 06:50:44 AM »
ROFL, photo 7900... can you identify the person in the photo about to crap his pants in a major way?

(There's a guy in a red shirt, seated, with his back to the coming aircraft and looking in another direction with his arms crossed. *Everything* just projects that he's not paying attention)
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2007, 07:40:07 AM »
Jimminy... the closeup of the shockwave distortion was GREAT!  I bet the people on the water wished they'd have remembered their ear plugs!  The guy must have had a fast lens ... the shutter speed was cranked up high enough to freeze-frame the props on Fat Albert.

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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2007, 07:59:41 AM »
Yup, somebody was trying to ban it, didn't work...  cheesy
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2007, 09:01:43 AM »
Great photos!  Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2007, 12:19:58 PM »
A friend emailed me a link to the photos.  I wuz gonna post it here, but I see someone else thought of you all a little sooner.

Anyway they are great, enjoy!
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2007, 12:58:36 PM »
What kind of plane is that, flying just above the water? 
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2007, 12:59:31 PM »
Quote from: fistful on December 18, 2007, 11:58:36 AM
What kind of plane is that, flying just above the water? 

Navy F/A 18 Hornet, blonging to the Blue Angels demonstration squadron
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« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2007, 03:34:49 PM »
That would be an air - plane...  rolleyes

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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2007, 04:48:29 PM »
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the shutter speed was cranked up high enough to freeze-frame the props on Fat Albert.

The C130 prop RPM is only 1020 RPM (constant) at 100% prop RPM. You only need a camera that can do 1/500th of a second (or is that 1/1000th) to stop the blades IIRC.

When I was stationed at Moffet Field, the Blue's would come visit for the yearly airshow. I loved the practice run the day before, some great pics and no crowds.

The Blue Angels will be at Fairchild AFB in Spokane August 8-10. If you have never seen them, and are close, I would say come on over.

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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2007, 01:19:22 AM »
Yea, they're pretty awesome. Those SOBs are the ones that convinced me the Navy was THE place to be...  angry

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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 03:36:37 PM »
When I saw something that said "fleet week" I was expecting images of Patpong Street...
 
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 05:43:53 PM »
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Re: Fleet week pix...
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 08:00:03 PM »
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When I saw something that said "fleet week" I was expecting images of Patpong Street...

I was expecting a shot of Magsaysay street full of sailors with an LBFM on each arm.

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