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Post by slackie on May 28, 2014 19:55:01 GMT 12
Thought that we needed a thread for those snapshots taken on your cellphone when you don't have your D-SLR with you but have caught something worthwhile. I'm often "caught short" without my camera gear either at work or elsewhere and have to resort to the trusty cellphone. Allowance should be made for those single digit megapixel phones so they're probably not going to be anywhere near the expected quality of those we're accustomed to see from Mr Conroy et al. Anyway... here's a few "starters for 10..."  Lake Karapiro today The result of an inflight canopy loss back in March...   Luckily no one was hurt! |
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Post by efliernz on May 29, 2014 7:24:08 GMT 12
An awesome day by Karapiro Slackie... sorry, but no cellphone for me yesterday. I shot this while climbing to 2500' for the road construction photos... Pete  |
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Post by efliernz on May 29, 2014 20:52:11 GMT 12
I promise no more dslr pics... sorry  It was just so close to your shot... insanely close! |
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 30, 2014 14:03:41 GMT 12
Poor NUT, that looks nasty. I hope you were not injured Mike.
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Post by Radialicious on May 30, 2014 21:17:17 GMT 12
I can't imagine the recovery of ZK-NUT would have been very pleasant after the loss of its canopy. Many aeroplanes can lose a canopy and the pilot is still protected by the windshield. Not in this case!
Years ago, one of our TA-4's had an accidental canopy jettison when the wrong handle was pulled during a new pilots conversion onto type. The front seater was largely unaffected at the time but the instructor in the rear seat received quite a battering before the aircraft landed.
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Post by slackie on Jun 2, 2014 19:13:13 GMT 12
Fortunately (for me!) I wasn't flying it at the time but was watching from the ground (I had flown it just before!!). Apparently after the initial WTF moment it actually flew pretty well as a convertible, and Grant considered flying it back to Ardmore from where we were practicing (Mercer), but as he was wearing sunglasses and couldn't look back to assess the damage to the tailplane for fear of loosing the sunnies if he turned his head, he thought it more prudent to land back at Mercer.
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Post by slackie on Jun 2, 2014 19:14:55 GMT 12
OK... here's another one...  Chocolate fish to those who can name what this is! |
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Post by Ian Warren on Jun 2, 2014 19:31:15 GMT 12
Quickly saying its a Ryan .. don't know the model/variant .. I'm hungry a Chocie fish will fix me.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 2, 2014 19:33:58 GMT 12
Noel's STM-S2?
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Post by slackie on Jun 3, 2014 8:32:03 GMT 12
Dave gets the chocolate fish for accuracy... keep an eye out for Chris Gee's article probably in the next Kiwi Flyer issue... I've had a sneaky peek at some of the photos from our air-to-air photo shoot on Saturday... sure is a photogenic aircraft!!
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Post by slackie on Jun 3, 2014 8:52:22 GMT 12
 Took this one at the 20 Anniversary of the Eagle helicopter collision over Spagetti Junction. |
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Post by baz62 on Jun 8, 2014 9:29:01 GMT 12
Looks like you were in a nice camera ship for the second one. T6 for the 262? That 262 looks fantastic I've always admired that aircraft, such a fore runner to todays fighters with her sleek lines and swept back wings. |
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Post by slackie on Jun 8, 2014 14:23:31 GMT 12
 Brand spanking! |
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Post by slackie on Jun 8, 2014 16:54:29 GMT 12
 PornStar have taken to wearing hi-viz vests! |
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Post by lindstrim on Jun 8, 2014 21:24:50 GMT 12
Do they need that so all the Dash/ATR/1900 drivers miss them when waiting for a gate?
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Post by haughtney1 on Jun 8, 2014 21:32:48 GMT 12
Managed to upset ATC at MEL a little while back after calling them "pornstar". After getting told off, I said I got confused with the cat food callsign as I was thinking it was "whiskers" (tiger airways Oz has the call sign "go cat")...I think he got the pussy....cat inference. :-)
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It was just so close to your shot... insanely close!
