I’ve finished culling my pictures from last week’s trip to the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. As I mentioned earlier, I took 1,455 photographs, and after looking at every single one on a 52″ screen, I’ve picked 237 of them as the best of the best.
I’d like to put all of them up at full resolution, but obviously that’s beyond the scope of a blog post, and I’m not happy with the limitations of photo sharing sites. So I’m exploring solutions on my own web space. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, here is a sampling of what I got. All of these are action shots (and lesson learned: I needed a video camera). For static shots, see this post.
There was far too much air traffic for a single tower to handle, so two helicopters flew a prescribed course 12 hours a day to assist. One of them came right over our campsite.
Also from our campsite.
This was my single favorite moment of the whole trip. We were about 100 yards behind this F/A-18 when it took off with full afterburner. Dad said it was so loud, “it sounded like it was going to rip the fabric of time.”
I was a little disappointed there weren’t more helicopters there, but this Sky Crane was one, and it posed for us.
The World War II fighter planes simulated attack runs, complete with marvelously visceral explosions. You could feel the heat on your face when they went up.
The Oracle biplane guy was just nuts. He did so much crazy stuff so quickly, it looked like a radio-controlled toy.
A really cool heritage flight with an F-4, an F-15, and two P-38s.
The world’s only privately-owned Harrier doing its thing.
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FA-18s are one of the reasons I’m glad I don’t live close to NAS Oceana anymore. Love me some jet noise but hate things falling off walls.
You must have a pretty decent camera to get such clear photos. Pretty cool shot of the trail behind the F/A-18. And I love watching the Harrier, such an incredible machine. Makes me get all welled up (seriously, I’m weird like that!) Thanks for sharing these.
Kemtee, it was really something. I could see how it’d get old after a few hundred times. 🙂
Mirth, thanks. I shot everything with a Pentax K200D. Most of my best ones resulted from taking 10-12 essentially identical shots and choosing the best. (That’s easily my favorite characteristic of digital–that attempts are essentially free.) The only thing I missed that I wish I hadn’t was the heritage flight peel-off, and the F-15 flying back over at just a couple hundred feet with a plume of flame shooting out the back.
The Harrier is one of the ones that would have benefited from me having a video camera. The column of air is slightly visible, indicating to a close observer that the aircraft is stationary, but it would have been a lot more dramatic on video.