In cockpit Blues/TBirds NYC

Cool to see them flying together. Just makes you think how cool it would be if they actually flew a tight formation together. Or racing down each side of Manhattan just over the bridges. So do they both use AF tankers? Does one tanker have both booms?

With my minuscule photo flight experience I was shocked how much throttle play was involved. I expected they wouldn't play with it much but that left hand was always busy. And they got pretty close to bonking once.

Thanks for sharing! Cool to watch!
 
Wow, just... wow.


One thing that puzzled me was the in-cockpit views. It looked as if there were a camera just floating around. Sometimes it would be showing the pilot from the front, then it seemdped to float back over his head and show a different view, rpthen it would float around and show a view lookin outside. How do they do that? Multiple cameras swith post processing to stitch everthing together seamlessly?
 
jimhorner said:
Wow, just... wow.


One thing that puzzled me was the in-cockpit views. It looked as if there were a camera just floating around. Sometimes it would be showing the pilot from the front, then it seemdped to float back over his head and show a different view, rpthen it would float around and show a view lookin outside. How do they do that? Multiple cameras swith post processing to stitch everthing together seamlessly?
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Think you’re seeing a helmet cam and a fixed cam forward looking aft, mixed into the final compilation.
 
Could be a 360 camera where you can select any angle later when viewing. Like Trent Palmer has on his wing.
 
Views from an airplane in the formation looking away from the formation for any length of time are definitely not a helmet-mounted camera unless it's steerable by someone other than the pilot. :yikes:

The KC-10 has both a boom and one or more hose and drogues to refuel either style (The KC-135 does not but can be fitted with a hose/drogue at the end of the boom). In the footage of the F/A-18 plugging the basket you can see the retracted boom against the belly of the tanker.

Nauga,
dragged all over the place
 
nauga said:
Views from an airplane in the formation looking away from the formation for any length of time are definitely not a helmet-mounted camera.
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I think @Sinistar got it with a fixed 360 degree camera with a mirror, edited in post production to look like a rotatable camera.

Camera shoots technically straight up and sees all around by mirror, then the distorted and curved image is flattened into a sector as big as “HD” or whatever quality they’re going for.
 
Love the “Steam Gage” stopwatch on the glare shield. Sometimes analog is best, as I learned a long time ago in Human Factors design.

Cheers
 
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