Post aircraft pictures you took

[AV8R_87]

Post aicraft pictures in this thread.
We definitely have some pros on this board, and I'm sure there are a lot of enthusiasts as well.
Doesn't have to be your aicraft, but it must be a picture you took. Can be only a part of the aircraft, emphasizing a specific detail, but it must still be recognizable as an aircraft. Planes, helicopters, gliders, balloons, gyrocopters, all count. Rockets spend a portion of their brief career in the atmosphere, so they count, too. Parachutes are also allowed.
Feel free to share a short description of the shot and why you chose it. Equipment description is optional.
One picture per post and no consecutive posts. Also, try to not one-up the previous post. This is not a competition, more of a showcase and inspiration for other people.


My opening contribution. USAF Heritage Flight at OSH '22 during the Wed evening airshow. The sunset colors were stunning and it added a lot to the significance of the flight. Straight out of the camera, Canon SL2, 18-135 USM lens

 

[RyanB]

So, a spin off of the long running “Daily Pic” thread?

 

[AV8R_87]

Yes. A lot more specific.

 

[nauga]

So, a spin off of the long running “Daily Pic” thread?

Waaaaay more rules though.

Nauga,
straight but not narrow

 

[Sac Arrow]

Well there is my contribution.

 

[Tools]

Took this the morning I was hauling from where stored to my place in Gulf Shores.

My son lives on this property… and came over 5 minutes later…



Show off…

Just an awful beautiful morning! This plane is nearing completion, looking forward to posting a pic of sunrise from the cockpit.

 

[Klaus M]

Getting The Beaver fueled, floats pump and loaded for another flight

 

[mandm]

 

[Velocity173]

An oldie. Stennis 99.

 

[Mason]

View attachment 126039
Well there is my contribution.

You too?

 

[Sac Arrow]

You too?

You're welcome. I was waiting for that.

 

[Racerx]

Taken in the middle of the Carson national forest. Would get a daily flyover. The 3 am fighter jet low pass is a wake up call I didn't mind. Wake up yelling WTF as loud as I could and still couldn't hear myself.

 

[Dana]

Grimes Airport in Bethel, PA, home of the Golden Age Air Museum, after the Biplanes & Bands fly-in.

 

[RyanShort1]

 

[dbahn]

Self-explanatory, except that's the MOON, not the sun, rising in the background right near our home on Lake Champlain, Vermont and I still own the Cub almost 30 years after I restored it.

 

[Sac Arrow]

Had to post the sequence to give it some context. Shot with a Canon AE1 Program with a Soligor 28 - 70 mm lens. Most likely 400 speed film.

 

[Half Fast]

A few samples from the Half Fast archives:

 

[Half Fast]

A young @2-Bit Speed .

"CLEAR!"

 

[Half Fast]

John Glenn's personal Beech Baron:

 

[Velocity173]

Somewhere off Okinawa

 

[biplanebob]

My biplane at Grimes Field, Bethel, PA

 

[Dana]

Beech 18 at 76N in Tunkhannock, PA. I was in it when it took off, but not when it landed.

 

[Tools]

Nice lookin Hatz in the background!

 

[CowboyJake]

Pawnee at work

 

[Dana]

Some of the C-47s assembling at Waterbury-Oxford preparing to cross the pond for the D-Day anniversary commemoration.

 

[William Pete Hodges]

I took this on our last flight together in 86F before we sold it. The zoom says it all.

 

[midlifeflyer]

This one is painful... Came across it on a ramp. Ouchie!

 

[Velocity173]

Burning the midnight oil.

 

[nauga]

A oldie but goody (in terms of flights, not photo quality)

Nauga,
up and aft

 

[ateamer]

My friend’s Italian stallion.

 

[ateamer]

 

[Daleandee]

He still owes me a ride ...

 

[AV8R_87]

2012 at NAS Oceana - One of the last times (if I recall right) when an F-4 was seen at a public demonstration. This one was on its way to be converted to a QF-4. Also, one of the earliest examples of what became the USAF Heritage Flight.

 

[pmanton]

Taken on the 100th anniversary of flight over Puget Sound.

 

[islandboy]

 

[Velocity173]

2012 at NAS Oceana - One of the last times (if I recall right) when an F-4 was seen at a public demonstration. This one was on its way to be converted to a QF-4. Also, one of the earliest examples of what became the USAF Heritage Flight.
View attachment 126131

Saw 494 6 years earlier at Andrews AFB. Not the best pics but had a nice paint scheme.

 

[Chip Sylverne]

 

[Half Fast]

View attachment 126123

BEAUTIFUL!

(But I'd love it even more if you photo-shopped a kid holding a control line running to it, like the Cox models we all had. )

​

 

[RyanShort1]

An old working Piper twin in San Angelo a week or so ago.

 

[ateamer]

Taken on the 100th anniversary of flight over Puget Sound.View attachment 126133

That Ercoupe was at our airpark fly-in a few days ago.