Small Scale Military Headquarters

Thought I'd share with you all this image I took at the Planes of Fame Museum last Saturday when I was there for the volunteer lunch. They all loved the FW-190 (many collect the XD line, but are as frustrated with the lack of planes at wal-mart as most of you are) since most had never seen it before. They had just moved hte P-51D 'Spam Can' inside the hanger... so I put the FW-190 down in front of the 'Cal Aero Field' hanger and snapped this low shot. That's a F7F-3N Tigercat in the background.

Good use of perspective! Too bad there aren't any flying examples of the FW-190D9 (or any 190s for that matter). One painted in those colors of JV-44 would draw attention at any airshow!

The first replica FW-190A took to the air October 1st... but it's a replica. Much like the Stormbird ME-262s

The Tiger Cat was one powerful plane. Finally got a chance to see one ("Big Boss Man") in flight last summer. Fantastic!

Great shot, P51!

Mike

Great shot p51! If you get the bbi P-51, take a shot of that!! You'll see what I'm talking about if/when you get yours.........

-Ski

I thought I'd continue with this thread and add a few more... Corsair and P-38 Lightning. The props are spinning from natural wind at the museum (it was somewhat strong that day and this location where I was at is somewhat of a wind tunnel due to the hangars). Unfortunatly, the P-38's right prop was tighter than the left... so only one prop was really spinning. The right one did spin ever so often... but it died quickly. The corsair, on the other hand, spun like crazy. At one point (no joke) it was spinning so fast that the plane started to move backward!

Time to bust out the big fan and take pictures! Pretty cool the Corsair moved backwards in the strong wind - imagine what an even lighter plane (FW-190, ME-109) would have done!

Great shots Britt! Too bad you didn't have the pilots in the seats, hehehehe. Wonderful, though!!

-Ski

Those are terrific photos.

What type of camera did you use?

Great photos P-51! You must have one hec of a camera. I cant seem to get my Canon pics to look like that

Keep'em comin'

Yowza! Great pics P!

Thanks everyone! I use a Canon Rebel.... but I've been doing aviation photos for many many years now and as most of you know am going into it professionally soon. It was easy to work with aircraft on the smaller scale as such.

Ski... there's actually a pilot in the Corsair... you just can't see him well. The P-38, however, does not have a pilot due to a leg problem that I put him aside to fix. We'll just say that he started the plane... but forgot a important document... so he jumped out and ran over to get it leaving the engine going

Bless you, p51.

Keep the wonderful pics coming.

p51 wrote:Thanks everyone! I use a Canon Rebel.... but I've been doing aviation photos for many many years now and as most of you know am going into it professionally soon. It was easy to work with aircraft on the smaller scale as such.

Ski... there's actually a pilot in the Corsair... you just can't see him well. The P-38, however, does not have a pilot due to a leg problem that I put him aside to fix. We'll just say that he started the plane... but forgot a important document... so he jumped out and ran over to get it leaving the engine going

LOL! Next time, have the Corsair's canopy slid back and the pilot leaning out. That would look cool!

-Ski

Nice shot of the Corsair. All you would have needed to make the photo more realistic is the smoke coming from the stacks!

Not nessessarly Just moments before I was shooting a real F4U-1A Corsair that started up and took off... and the photos look realllly close to that. The smoke subsides after a few moments. But you are correct if it was on start-up! We'll say the shot is of the corsair coming in... just after taxiing back right before he cut the engines!

I just went out and took some Blue Angel (BBi) photos with the reflections in the rain water (we're having some major storms here in California for all who don't know). I'll try and get some up here soon.

Sneak Peak:

tmanthegreat wrote:Good use of perspective! Too bad there aren't any flying examples of the FW-190D9 (or any 190s for that matter). One painted in those colors of JV-44 would draw attention at any airshow!

In the United States there are 2 FW190d9s that I know of. One is the AF Museum, at Wright-Patterson, the other (the only flying condition one) is at Falcon Field, Mesa Arizona at the Champlin Fighter Museum. It was undergoing refurbishment two years ago. I am not sure of its status now.

The owner no longer flys the plane, but supposedly it could be flown. I've stood on the wing of it and looked into the cockpit. Nice plane.

I think I have a picture of the one in Arizona... Thanks for the info!

There a LOT of images that will follow. BBi P-51 Mustang with a REAL P-51D Mustang 'Spam Can' at the Planes of Fame Museum (Chino, CA). Also shots of the BBi Blue Angel after one day it rained here.

Mustang is up first!




























Blue Angel

Great photos Britt!!! You gotta mod those tanks, though , hehehehehe. The F-18 looks really cool with the BA scheme. A lot better than I would of thought. Nice and clean........

-Ski

What Ski said...

Great photos.
I thought I would bump this back up to the top, so those who are new to this board could see them.