North American T-28 - T-6 Texan / SNJ / Harvard

[Scott Youmans]

Taken back in February 2011 on the way to Coolidge.  70-200mm f/4L IS on EOS-1D Mark IV.

[Joe Copalman]

Gorgeous shot, Scott.

[Scott Youmans]

Thanks Joe!  I'll be posting some other shots from that day on the Coolidge pages.

[Jay Beckman]

Symmetry

[Scott Youmans]

Taken 9 years ago as of tomorrow (11/10/2002).  Scanned transparency.

[Matt Ottosen]

North American AT-6B-NT Texan

Recovering to Falcon Field after an air-to-air photo shoot during Air2AirWorkshops' last workshop of the year.

[Scott Youmans]

A mighty Trojan at Valle, June 2006.

[Scott Youmans]

Clean T-28C at Gateway 3/6/2010.

[Chris Kennedy]

Normally when the warbirds return to DVT, they use a "Whiskey 1" arrival. That is a Navy carrier style approach when they fly over the runway and do a break to a downwind leg for landing. The tower controller will normally tell them to approach at 3000 feet (1500 agl) and will tell them to "break over the numbers" or "break over mid-field" in order to fit them into the traffic flow. When this guy arrived, there was no traffic whatsoever and the controller said "altitude and break at pilot's discretion," so he came in at about 200 feet agl and didn't do his break until the far end of the runway.

[phantomphan1974]

John's last flight of 2011

John Collver's SNJ "WAR DOG" Last Flight of 2011 by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr


John Collver's SNJ "WAR DOG" Last Flight of 2011 by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr


John Collver's SNJ "WAR DOG" Last Flight of 2011 by PhantomPhan1974 Photography, on Flickr

[Scott Youmans]

Texan

[Chris Kennedy]

By strange coincidence I just today saw an NTSB probable cause report on that AT-6, N76BZ, for a landing accident at Falcon two years ago. There was a reference to it on one of the RSS feeds that I follow. The report actually came out a long time ago.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20100221X20856&key=1

[Jay Beckman]

Maybe 500mm was too much lens? 

[Jeff D. Welker]

Maybe 500mm was too much lens?  

I'm not sure about excessive focal length; however, what I really want to know is how you got the wing tip and fuselage in sharp focus while shooting a slow shutter speed on your 500 and panning??? You make a guy with shaky hands very jealous  

[Jay Beckman]

Essentially, everything on a line from the position light, to Popeye to the Pilot are all on the same relative plane and all moving at more or less the same speed.

Perpendicular like this is the one place you won't see much parallax error.

Same day, same flight of T-6s / SNJs going out at AirVenture but this one was on the far side of the runway while the one above was on the near side.
Notice that the Oshkosh trucks in the background are just a little bit more pronounced here than above.  Less subject to background distance.  Not much, but enough to affect the DOF.