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Lydd Airshow

Last weekend I went to my first airshow in ages, at Lydd in Kent, and took lots of photos of the various flying machines there.

This entry is essentially just an excuse to show of some of the photos I took, so without further ado, I present you with the British army helicopter that somebody decided to name after a text-only web-browser, Lynx:

a Lynx army helicopter



It was fun watching formation flying from a Canberra, Hawker Hunter, and DeHavilland Sea Vixen:

a Canberra, Hunter, and Sea Vixen flying in V formation.



But my favourite aircraft of the show has to be the Chinook:

a Chinook



Although the B-17 Flying Fortress was nice:

a B-17 smoking



Unfortunately I didn't get a lot of opportunity to snap the Spitfire:

a Spitfire



Here's the Hunter and Sea Vixen again, in a dogfight... or should that be bullfight?

a Hunter being chased by a Red-Bull branded Sea Vixen



Here are some planes that were doing some formation aerobatics:

three coloured plains in a row



Including flying under a low gate...

a blue plane flying under a gate



And bursting balloons:

a red plane hitting a small helium balloon



Here's another one of the Lynx as it took off:

a Lynx helicopter with grass being blown about



And some Yaks:

a quartet of Yaks, in diamond formation trailing smoke



The Canberra has a couple of very useful features: one, a waving-hole, for putting your hand through and waving at people with; and two, a notice to warn people not to walk through the solid chassis:

a side view of the Canberra cockpit, as it taxied for take-off



Well, I've got a whole host more photos, both different shots of the machines I've already shown and of other aircraft I haven't shown, so if anyone is interested in seeing them then just ask. :)

Posted by Peter on 16-September-2006 at 01:38 ~ Category:

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What settings did you use to take those? Whenever I try to get something like that, it appears highly blurred. I either have to raise the shutter speed, making it too dark, or fiddle with other settings, making it grainy.

Also, do you have a hit counter on here? I wonder how many people read it... this is the first comment anyone's made. Go you for still updating, though.
Hornet @ 02:38 16-September-2006

The vast majority were on semi-auto (Program mode).
Shutter speeds were all between 1/800 and 1/1600, mostly around 1/1000.
Sensitivity was at ISO 200 for them all.
Lens was a Sigma 70-300mm, mostly from 150mm to 300mm and between F/5.6 and F/9.

I did increase the brightness on them, but mostly only slightly - the dogfight/bullfight one needed a fair bit of fixing, as did the spitfire, but the rest weren't particularly bad.

I think it mostly came down to having good sunlight, and (for once) steady hands. :)



I don't have a hit counter, but I do have Awstats. I'm getting a steady trickle - mayble a dozen people a day - mostly to my MacBook/3G and Eileen Donan entries, via Google.
Peter @ 03:00 16-September-2006

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