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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #225 on: May 28, 2013, 09:26:53 AM »
Today I just bought an used Olympus E-30 body. I found some older pictures taken with my E-500 and E-510 bodies. These were taken in July 2009 at CFB Trenton.

Looking forward to playing with my new boy toy. 











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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #226 on: May 28, 2013, 10:24:30 AM »
Those are great pictures!

I shot these T-6 Texans from my balcony, as they did their annual flyover of the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Their flight path was almost directly overhead this year, so I didn't get great shots:







While waiting for the flyover, I noticed a Rutan VariEze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_VariEze) in the distance. It's probably based in Santa Monica:



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #227 on: May 28, 2013, 09:32:11 PM »
When I finally get off this lump of fertiliser in the Indian Ocean, I'll post a few photo's & some links to pic's I have taken of some of the ships I've seen here - Armidale class patrol boats (HMAS Ararat & HMAS Launceston), ANZAC class frigate (HMAS Warramunga), MV Ocean Protector (Australian Customs & Border Protection Service vessel), MV Pacific Rover & HMAS Melville.

20 days to fly-out.... but who's counting? :D

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #228 on: May 28, 2013, 11:42:45 PM »
When I finally get off this lump of fertiliser in the Indian Ocean

You really are living on a lump of fertilizer...

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #229 on: May 29, 2013, 05:19:45 AM »
giant insect attack - Dornier eats house !


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #230 on: May 29, 2013, 11:10:09 PM »
When I finally get off this lump of fertiliser in the Indian Ocean

You really are living on a lump of fertilizer...

Very good, Frank! ;)

I work in one of the Immigration Detention Centres (& I'll be back 6 weeks after I leave if I can't find something else while I'm between contracts), the old "temporary" centre - which is still operational & which accommodates families, single females & unaccompanied minors (male), while the new centre (which was built, although the wiki article doesn't mention it) with all the bells & whistles houses houses single adult males.

Go figure!? ???

Oh, I've, also, seen a couple of RAAF C-17 Cargomasters but haven't been able to take photo's of them.

:-\

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #231 on: June 05, 2013, 05:53:30 AM »
 I can't imagine why a man would complain of living on an island with two kinds of Boobys...

 ( Its also hard to imagine an environment in which not one, but two species of rats would go
    extinct. )

 Looking forward to the pictures, anyhow!

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #232 on: June 17, 2013, 02:36:17 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #233 on: June 17, 2013, 08:05:57 AM »
You really are living on a lump of fertilizer...
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It's the tree-climbing crabs that weird me out  :o

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #234 on: June 17, 2013, 09:37:38 AM »
Ohhh those Phantoms are sexy!
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #235 on: June 17, 2013, 11:09:13 AM »
It's the tree-climbing crabs that weird me out  :o
It's Freaking Nasty Creepy Crawlies That Should STAY Underwater Where They BELONG, period, that freak me out, of ANY kind. LOL

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #236 on: June 17, 2013, 11:43:37 AM »
That Phantom sunset shot is indeed sweet. Sorta bitter-sweet, though. Only six weeks or so to go (July 29th, to be exact) and they'll be officially phased out of Luftwaffe service.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #237 on: June 17, 2013, 11:54:57 AM »
Love the Phantoms, Greg! :-*

Big, brutish & beautiful! :D

This description also covers the Robber crabs (a.k.a. Coconut crabs). I have a photo I took of the "face" of one of them as my laptop wallpaper.

Did you know crabs have eyebrows? No? ???

Robber crabs do! :icon_surprised:

Flying out tomorrow! :icon_music:

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #238 on: June 17, 2013, 02:46:37 PM »
That Phantom sunset shot is indeed sweet. Sorta bitter-sweet, though. Only six weeks or so to go (July 29th, to be exact) and they'll be officially phased out of Luftwaffe service.


End of an era. IMO one of the most monumental aircraft of all time.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #239 on: June 17, 2013, 10:13:17 PM »
Thank you for that Phantom shot!!!  Its now my wallpaper  8)

I consider myself very lucky to have seen one up close and in flight at an airshow last year.  The USAF WAS at least, taking their QF-4 drones around to various air shows in the US.  Don't know what the stupid *** political disaster has done to that program.  Never knew we even still had any left.  Think they said they still had around 30 or so and they used them up at a rate of 5-10 a year or something like that.  It'll be a sad day indeed when the final Phantom goes on its final flight wherever it may be.

Phantoms Phorever!!!!  8)
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #240 on: June 21, 2013, 09:00:46 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #241 on: June 21, 2013, 09:06:14 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #242 on: June 21, 2013, 10:11:18 PM »
It'll be a sad day indeed when the final Phantom goes on its final flight wherever it may be.

Phantoms Phorever!!!!  8)

Hopefully several will be kept as airworthy museum pieces...
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #243 on: June 22, 2013, 07:36:35 AM »
Hopefully several will be kept as airworthy museum pieces...
Well, Collings Foundation got one and intends to keep it up as long as they can. Granted, it took a special Act of Congress rammed up USAF's rectum sans K-Y or any other lube to get them to transfer a flyable aircraft, but...

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #244 on: June 23, 2013, 04:03:08 AM »
Some photos from the last days of the Soviet Union - love the coiour scheme:



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #245 on: June 23, 2013, 05:01:30 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #246 on: June 23, 2013, 05:09:19 AM »



Why is the KC-135R painted in Hi-viz markings?
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #247 on: June 23, 2013, 05:35:33 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #248 on: June 23, 2013, 11:02:22 AM »



Why is the KC-135R painted in Hi-viz markings?

Test squadron aircraft, not part of an operational squadron.

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« Reply #249 on: June 23, 2013, 11:03:53 AM »
Some photos from the last days of the Soviet Union - love the coiour scheme:





Be interesting color schemes to apply to a MiG-29 of any variant or to a production version/derivative of the Ye-8.