TICO Airshow 2011 B2 Stealth Bomber, Heavy Metal - New Civilian Show Team Flying the L39 Debuts

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Posted: 3/12/2011 6:45:13 PM EDT

Great day for a great airshow at Titusville Cocoa Airport.
Highlight was a B2 flying straight from Missouri and then back.
New Cilvilian Airshow Team named "Heavy Metal" debut, flying the Czech L39 (winter camo paint scheme - they put on a good show)
Three B25s (one was the only flying B25H variant which had a 75mm gun in nose which was the same gun as in the Sherman tank - that's what the announcer claimed).
A10 demonstration, P40s, P51s, couple WWI planes, F4U Corsair, F104 Starfighter, more...

Posted: 3/12/2011 6:49:01 PM EDT

[#1]

Awesome photos

Posted: 3/12/2011 6:56:27 PM EDT

[#2]

thanks

Posted: 3/12/2011 6:57:02 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Highlight was a B2 flying straight from Missouri and then back.

I worked him after the Titusville air show. He was doing two air shows today. The other was in south texas and I can't exactly remember where he was going, then back to Missouri. Callsign was Death11

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Edit: Oh yeah it was Brownsville.

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:03:01 PM EDT

[#4]

The B2 made three passes at TICO, announcer said he has a 6000 mile range and was doing the round trip without refuelling. How do they do this - is it a training flight and they work in passes at airshows?

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:06:59 PM EDT

[#5]

Cool pics, thanks for sharing

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:13:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Great pictures!

What camera/lens did you use?

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:22:05 PM EDT

[#7]

Good stuff

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:22:28 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
The B2 made three passes at TICO, announcer said he has a 6000 mile range and was doing the round trip without refuelling. How do they do this - is it a training flight and they work in passes at airshows?

The airshow coordinator requests military aircraft through the unit's PAO.
The PAO checks the deployment / operations schedule to see if there are any conflicts.
The PAO submits a request to the next higher authority to participate in the air show.

The PAO works with operations to find a crew, hopefully maintenance will ask for volunteers (or duty people) to preflight / launch / recover the aircraft.

If it is going to be a flyover then the unit can try to kill two birds with one stone, schedule a flyover at two different airshows.

Airshow flights, whether they are flyovers, active participants or static displays, are always counted as "training".

I seriously doubt that the B-2 took off with a full load of fuel, probably more like enough to fly to point A, B, C and back to point A, plus a few thousand pounds of fuel for missed approach / emergency's / nearest divert.

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:25:30 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Cool pics, thanks for sharing

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:35:06 PM EDT

[#10]

Beauty

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:53:31 PM EDT

[#11]

Camera is a Nikon D300. Lens is a Quantaray 70-300mm zoom - not the best but largest zoom I have and it was zoomed all the way out on most shots. All these images here have been reduced 25% of their original size. I can see some losses in the images by doing this.

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:58:22 PM EDT

[#12]

mmmmm.....P51 goodness!

And the F104 is a sexy beast.

Posted: 3/12/2011 7:59:55 PM EDT

[#13]

Great job on the pictures

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:07:55 PM EDT

[#14]

Great pics! Thanks for sharing them!

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:10:23 PM EDT

[#15]

awesome pic's thanks

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:29:04 PM EDT

[#16]

Thanks so much for sharing!!!!

-Rog

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:35:07 PM EDT

[#17]

Awesome pictures - thanks.

A tip on the prop planes: if you use a slower shutter speed 1/500 - 1/250, you will get a nice spinning arc or disk on the propellers. You'll need to get your panning and follow thru down, but the props will look more natural. (Personally I like the props frozen as well, but some prefer the "disk" look) Just don't forget to reset the shutter speed for the jets.

I'll be getting pictures at the Luke Air show next weekend....hope I get some as nice as yours.

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:37:16 PM EDT

[#18]

AWESOME!

Posted: 3/12/2011 8:48:49 PM EDT

[#19]

Bad ASS! Seeing all of them is awesome. Really want a ride in the Stearman.

Posted: 3/12/2011 9:39:55 PM EDT

[#20]

Some pretty damn sweet pics you got there. Thanks.

Posted: 3/12/2011 11:07:48 PM EDT

[#21]

I'll just echo everyone else with th egret shots and thanks for sharing.

Some beautiful birds there.

Posted: 3/13/2011 4:57:14 AM EDT

[#22]

nice pics

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:11:38 AM EDT

[#23]

Great pics.

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:14:53 AM EDT

[#24]

Gotta love those old Fokker triplanes

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:32:43 AM EDT

[#25]

Great pics!

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:34:14 AM EDT

[#26]

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i didn't know about it

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:44:13 AM EDT

[#27]

Cool pics.

Thanks for sharing them.

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:47:04 AM EDT

[#28]

Brilliant pics, wish I could have been there!

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:54:19 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Gotta love those old Fokker triplanes

Doze fokkers wuz mezzrschmidts!

Posted: 3/13/2011 5:56:28 AM EDT

[#30]

Beautiful. The pictures are so good you can almost smell the exhaust.

Posted: 3/13/2011 6:31:46 AM EDT

[#31]

Waco UPF-7

You saw something special.

Posted: 3/13/2011 6:41:50 AM EDT

[#32]

cool pics, i've never been to an airshow but i would like to see one

i've been to the warbird museum, went there while i was on springbreak in 2007, really cool place