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| FTS and Mini FTSs 2012 Year of Aviation | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 31 2012, 11:18 AM (102 Views) | |
| FTS | Dec 31 2012, 11:18 AM Post #1 |
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Lt. Steve 'Gun Show' Harrison-Green
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These threads seem to be doing the rounds on the forums so I thought i'd share mine with you. It wasn't until I sat down to pick a selection that I realised how many pictures i've taken this year and despite the bad press that i've been giving my camera lately, it is capable of taking some pictures that i'm happy with. This year for me has been more about introducing my daughter to the world of aviation rather than concentrating on my photography. I seem to have done a good job because she is now a complete plane geek, very much like her father. Most little girls like In the Night Garden, she loves the latest Flying Legends trailer! Despite the fact that I became a single parent to her full time in the summer, she’s that well behaved watching the aircraft that it allows me to carry on taking pictures. My daughter was born in Dec 11 and within days was staring at her first aircraft. It helped that I had a Phantom FGR2 within a minutes walk of the house. 1. ![]() IMG_5085 by harrison-green, on Flickr We took the short drive down to Hendon to the RAF Museum. I took her inside the Sunderland and she was amazed, a good sign of things to come. Another Phantom but in a much better condition! 2. ![]() IMG_5381 by harrison-green, on Flickr Towards the end of January I took her to see her first ‘live’ aircraft at Lakenheath, where I learnt ‘baby loves afterburners’. 3. ![]() IMG_5752 by harrison-green, on Flickr 4. ![]() IMG_6346 by harrison-green, on Flickr 5. ![]() IMG_6641 by harrison-green, on Flickr I was fortunate to have not being in work on the day that Phantom FGR2 XT914 was moved from RAF Brampton to its new home at Wattisham. Unfortunately I can’t show any shots of the dismantling and loading until this place closes, which won’t be for long, however outside the wire was fair game. 6. ![]() IMG_6988 by harrison-green, on Flickr Our first airshow of the year was the Jubilee Show at Duxford. Annoyingly for me almost all of my shots were ruined by having the UV filter attached to my lens, which struggles to focus even without a filter attached! I still came away with a couple that were acceptable and some good lessons were learnt for the rest of the season. 7. ![]() IMG_8716 by harrison-green, on Flickr 8. ![]() IMG_8863 by harrison-green, on Flickr 9. ![]() IMG_8889 by harrison-green, on Flickr Our next show was again at Duxford for Flying Legends where we went on the Friday and Sunday. 10. ![]() IMG_0641 by harrison-green, on Flickr 11. ![]() IMG_9611 by harrison-green, on Flickr 12. ![]() IMG_9565 by harrison-green, on Flickr 13. ![]() IMG_9511 by harrison-green, on Flickr 14. ![]() IMG_9863 by harrison-green, on Flickr 15. ![]() IMG_9724 by harrison-green, on Flickr 16. ![]() IMG_9322 by harrison-green, on Flickr 17. ![]() IMG_2993 by harrison-green, on Flickr 18. ![]() IMG_2357 by harrison-green, on Flickr 19. ![]() IMG_2159 by harrison-green, on Flickr 20. ![]() IMG_2074 by harrison-green, on Flickr 21. ![]() IMG_1612 by harrison-green, on Flickr 22. ![]() IMG_1043 by harrison-green, on Flickr 23. ![]() IMG_0972 by harrison-green, on Flickr 24. ![]() IMG_0214 by harrison-green, on Flickr A few weeks later RAF Brampton had its annual fun day. The RAF Falcons attended, dropping from a Cessna Caravan and BBMF sent their silver Spitfire, which provided a great display for the village, but all we got were undersides and nothing worth posting. 25. ![]() IMG_3865 by harrison-green, on Flickr Our next trip was back to Duxford for the Spitfire, Merlins and Motors show. I’d not been to this event before and expected a fairly normal museum day with a few aircraft display and some cars on show. Boy was I in for a shock! The show was effectively a mini airshow with a fairly large crowd and a large number of cars were on show. 26. ![]() IMG_4137 by harrison-green, on Flickr 27. ![]() IMG_4601 by harrison-green, on Flickr 28. ![]() IMG_4624 by harrison-green, on Flickr A few hours were spent over at Lakenheath on a lovely summer afternoon. 29. ![]() IMG_4957 by harrison-green, on Flickr 30. ![]() IMG_5098 by harrison-green, on Flickr Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to the American Air Day and complete the Duxford set since we somehow both managed to get swine flu in august! Fortunately we were both well enough to have a busy weekend, first at the Duxford September Show on the Saturday… 31. ![]() IMG_5224 by harrison-green, on Flickr 32. ![]() IMG_5332 by harrison-green, on Flickr 33. ![]() IMG_5682 by harrison-green, on Flickr 34. ![]() IMG_6272 by harrison-green, on Flickr …and on the Sunday we drove over to Leicestershire for the Victory Show at Cosby. 35. ![]() IMG_6874 by harrison-green, on Flickr 36. ![]() IMG_6926 by harrison-green, on Flickr 37. ![]() IMG_7643 by harrison-green, on Flickr 38. ![]() IMG_7762 by harrison-green, on Flickr 39. ![]() IMG_7812 by harrison-green, on Flickr Our final airshow of the year was the October show at Duxford. 40. ![]() IMG_8184 by harrison-green, on Flickr 41. ![]() IMG_8414 by harrison-green, on Flickr 42. ![]() IMG_8661 by harrison-green, on Flickr 43. ![]() IMG_8903 by harrison-green, on Flickr 44. ![]() IMG_9400 by harrison-green, on Flickr 45. ![]() IMG_9415 by harrison-green, on Flickr 46. ![]() IMG_9931 by harrison-green, on Flickr 47. ![]() IMG_9980 by harrison-green, on Flickr 48. ![]() IMG_0067 by harrison-green, on Flickr During December I was able to get some time to myself to spend at Lakenheath and round off the year. 49. ![]() IMG_0714 by harrison-green, on Flickr 50. ![]() IMG_0843 by harrison-green, on Flickr 51. ![]() IMG_2304 by harrison-green, on Flickr And that was our year. Thank you for looking and bring on the 2013 season. ![]() IMG_4126 by harrison-green, on Flickr Happy New Year! |
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| beowulf | Dec 31 2012, 03:42 PM Post #2 |
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Lt. Paul 'Red Dog' Rose
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awesome pics is #15 a Beechcraft Staggerwing?.............and whats the story with the Rapide?, did it get put out in time? |
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| FTS | Dec 31 2012, 03:54 PM Post #3 |
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Lt. Steve 'Gun Show' Harrison-Green
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15 is indeed a Staggerwing. The Rapide fire was caused during engine start up where hot stuff from the engine ignited the wing fabric. I saw the same thing happen to the Rapide on Jersey when I was there a few years ago, same engine, same part of wing. The guy with that extinguisher was quick to react but the extinguisher that he had was really small and ran out before the fire was completely extinguished. Therefore it flarred up again and nearly took the entire starboard lower wing before they got more extinguishers on it. The aircraft was flying again when I was there a few weeks later. It was commical that they got that out and then wheeled up the other Rapide. Next! :lol: I'll pass thanks... |
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| Mark M | Dec 31 2012, 04:02 PM Post #4 |
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Hawk T1
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Cracking photos mate my fav is the display hawk oviously |
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| Battenburg the third | Dec 31 2012, 04:30 PM Post #5 |
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Rivet Counter
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Some really nice shots on there. Like the Charlie Brown ones and the sunset Eagles too. You have just inspired me to go look through the 40 pages of shots I posted this year on my Flickr and see what I can one up with. |
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