Sunday, September 12, 2010
Flying Pilgrims R/C Club
My Nephew belongs to a giant scale R/C club called the Flying Pilgrims. They have a yearly two day airshow and usually have a pretty good turnout. This years shows were hampered a bit by the weather. Yesterday, was pretty much a rain out, today the wind was blowing 20-30mph so quite a few of the pilots were understandably gun shy. I attended last year and there was quite a bit of action including someone destroying his B-17. The weather seemed to limit the field of participating fliers, I really missed the helicopters, however a hawk showed up and seemed interested in the warbirds that were flying with him. Despite the weather I did get a couple of shots of few planes whose pilots were brave enough to send them up. Due to their size and speed, these planes make for a difficult subject. I used my 300mm lens and focused manually. Here are a couple of shots from the show.
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Those are truly excellent photos, Gymi. Well done.
I'm with Richard. Great Pictures. I'd be afraid to fly one of those things for all the $$$ it takes to put a nice one together. My cross eyed ass would probably Lawn Dart it on the first flight.
Thanks guys,
Those were my favorites out of the hundred fifty I took. Digital gives you the luxury of being able to go through your shots right after you take them. I would have thrown about fifty in the trash as soon as I got them back from the processor with my old film SLR. Now all I have to do is delete them. I love technology sometimes.
My Nephew always is trying to get me build one of those babies. I’m with you Unk, I would make a smoking hole in the groung in short order.
I tell my Nephew, why don’t I hand you fifteen hundred dollars and you can start a camp fire with it. I would be quicker and less painful than building and destroying a plane I put about five hundred hours of labor into.
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