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Posted: 11/1/2009 8:44:29 AM EDT

Enjoy!

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:46:16 AM EDT

[#1]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing.

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:47:13 AM EDT

[#2]

Wow! Great pics! I love the A-4.

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:49:39 AM EDT

[#3]

Great pics! I especially like the WW2 birds.

Thanks for sharing.

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:54:01 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Great pics! I especially like the WW2 birds.

Thanks for sharing.

Then you might like the fact that the P-38 was buried under a glacier for 50 years.

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:56:39 AM EDT

[#5]

Awesome pics

Posted: 11/1/2009 8:56:46 AM EDT

[#6]

Love the P-38! Was it "Glacier Girl"? Looks like her to me.

B-25 and B-17, two of my other favorites. Gotta love the sound of those radial engines. I bet the sound out there was awesome!

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:01:25 AM EDT

[#7]

NIcely done, those are great pics.

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:05:41 AM EDT

[#8]

sweet pics, thanks for sharin

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:07:06 AM EDT

[#9]

A-10s always makes me smile

great pics

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:09:26 AM EDT

[#10]

I thought they were going to stick Glacier Girl in a museum after a few airworthiness flights?

There is something really awesome about seeing a Zero or any WWII plane flying through black smoke like that. It's hard to put into words.

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:09:57 AM EDT

[#11]

Sweet, thanks for that.

What kind of camera are you using? I couldn't take that type of quality of picture if my fucking life depended on it.

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:25:09 AM EDT

[#12]

Very nice.

that's got to be a nice DSLR ?

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:29:01 AM EDT

[#13]

Do they still use RATO in operations ot is it relegated to the show circuit now?

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:32:36 AM EDT

[#14]

What's the smaller plane in the fifth pic?

Posted: 11/1/2009 9:38:31 AM EDT

[#15]

Fat Albert!

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:05:09 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Sweet, thanks for that.

What kind of camera are you using? I couldn't take that type of quality of picture if my fucking life depended on it.

It's a Canon Rebel XTi with a 70-200 2.8L and 2x extender. It's not the best camera, but I can't afford the one I want right now.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:09:39 AM EDT

[#17]

What lens?

Tell us about the A-4.

VERY good pics! Impressive composing!

ETA 30 seconds...

ETA 2: TA-4F "To Collings Foundation as part of their Vietnam Heritage grouping"

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:11:20 AM EDT

[#18]

Excellent pics. Lots of great iron flying around there.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:13:19 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/1/2009 10:14:29 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

What's the smaller plane in the fifth pic?

That there be a C-47, one of the greatest non-combat aircraft to ever serve the military.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:15:29 AM EDT

[#21]

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:18:44 AM EDT

[#22]

Well done, several of those are poster quality.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:18:45 AM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:20:26 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
What's the smaller plane in the fifth pic?

Some might say it's a C-47, but I think it's probably a DC-3 made to look like a C-47. They were the freight haulers that they called the Gooneybirds during WWII, but eventually they evolved into Puff the Magic Dragon during the early days of Vietnam.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:23:53 AM EDT

[#25]

Harrier FTW! How loud was it? Saw one at a show several years ago and holy shit are those things loud when they hover.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:24:03 AM EDT

[#26]

I love the A26, man those are sweet, and to see one that still has the turrets is even better. Most were turned into executive planes, fire bombers or drug runners and now those turrets dont exist, let alone see one without windows

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:29:18 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sweet, thanks for that.

What kind of camera are you using? I couldn't take that type of quality of picture if my fucking life depended on it.

It's a Canon Rebel XTi with a 70-200 2.8L and 2x extender. It's not the best camera, but I can't afford the one I want right now.

It's doin' a fine job.

I run a little PENTAX K110D with 18-55 and 50-200 factory lenses.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:31:40 AM EDT

[#28]

I love air shows.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:33:10 AM EDT

[#29]

Awesome!

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:37:02 AM EDT

[#30]

Very cool. I watched some this morning from a nearby park, and I think I am going back to watch the Blue Angels.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:52:47 AM EDT

[#31]

That's cool, and one of the most awesome wastes of our tax dollars.

Yeah , I know SOME of those are private craft...but the ones that are not...arggghhh.

Posted: 11/1/2009 10:57:46 AM EDT

[#32]

Great pics. Thanks for posting!

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:13:21 AM EDT

[#33]

As a side note, if you go to a flight tracker you can see some of these guys going home:

Airborn now is a B-24, a Mustang and some T-6s.

ETA: anyone know how to track an airborne military flight? Wife is heading home in a C-17 from another engagement.

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:14:50 AM EDT

[#34]

Excellent pics!

Lots of background wallpaper material there!

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:15:47 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sweet, thanks for that.

What kind of camera are you using? I couldn't take that type of quality of picture if my fucking life depended on it.

It's a Canon Rebel XTi with a 70-200 2.8L and 2x extender. It's not the best camera, but I can't afford the one I want right now.

It's doin' a fine job.

I run a little PENTAX K110D with 18-55 and 50-200 factory lenses.

Yay, someone else in the minority. I run a Pentax K-10D myself. Love it.

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:21:35 AM EDT

[#36]

Isn't that a P-47 Thunderbolt flying with the A-10?

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:25:01 AM EDT

[#37]

Great pics by the way. I love the WWII warbirds. The Vietnam era planes are sweet too. That looks like an A-1 Skyraider flying with an A4 Skyhawk.

Posted: 11/1/2009 11:29:29 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Sweet, thanks for that.

What kind of camera are you using? I couldn't take that type of quality of picture if my fucking life depended on it.

It's a Canon Rebel XTi with a 70-200 2.8L and 2x extender. It's not the best camera, but I can't afford the one I want right now.

It's doin' a fine job.

I run a little PENTAX K110D with 18-55 and 50-200 factory lenses.

Yay, someone else in the minority. I run a Pentax K-10D myself. Love it.

When I joined the US Army about 20 years ago, My Father went out and got me a PENTAX K1000
simple, rugged 35mm. He said you're going to see the world, send back pics. One of the best things He ever did.

When I went shopping for a DSLR a few years ago, I looked at Cannon, Nikon, Oly, and PENTAX
I thought they were pretty comparable, but I went with the PENTAX, because it takes regular AA batteries, and SD memory. I also could use my old 35mm lenses.

(Sorry for the thread hijack)

Posted: 11/1/2009 12:09:07 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Isn't that a P-47 Thunderbolt flying with the A-10?

Why yes, yes it is.

Posted: 11/1/2009 2:14:55 PM EDT

[#40]

Wow, I didn't know this bad boy was still flying after all these years.

Posted: 11/1/2009 2:20:32 PM EDT

[#41]

Would you happen to have a hi-res pic of the Warthog,around the 8th pic or so..all alone

This one....

Looks much better than the A-10 gracing my desktop now..

Great pics by the way.

Posted: 11/1/2009 2:28:47 PM EDT

[#42]

Great photos , I saved some . Thanks

Posted: 11/1/2009 2:31:14 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Would you happen to have a hi-res pic of the Warthog,around the 8th pic or so..all alone

This one....http://www.tinklehound.com/images/airshow09/IMG_5267a.jpg

Looks much better than the A-10 gracing my desktop now..

Great pics by the way.

IM me your email addy and I'll send it to you in just about any size you want.

edit- original size is 3888x2592