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Airshow: Rollout 2016 Västerås


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Here are some photos from the airshow at the aircraft museum's rollout 2016.

 
Parachutists
PES 2016 06 04 11 53 37 110mm
PES 2016 06 04 11 55 44 195mm
PES 2016 06 04 11 57 12 80mm A
 
DC-3
PES 2016 06 04 12 00 27 195mm
PES 2016 06 04 12 01 01 80mm
 
Piper PA-23 Apache
PES 2016 06 04 12 01 15 200mm
PES 2016 06 04 12 01 18 220mm
 
Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser
PES 2016 06 04 12 05 55 80mm
 
Noorduyn Norseman
PES 2016 06 04 12 09 01 150mm
PES 2016 06 04 12 09 05 80mm A
PES 2016 06 04 12 15 40 180mm A
 
North American AT-16 Harvards
PES 2016 06 04 12 19 46 195mm
PES 2016 06 04 12 20 18 85mm
PES 2016 06 04 12 31 09 155mm C
PES 2016 06 04 12 34 50 330mm A
 
Klemm-35D
PES 2016 06 04 13 38 36 85mm A
PES 2016 06 04 13 38 57 80mm
PES 2016 06 04 13 39 15 80mm
PES 2016 06 04 13 47 12 165mm A
PES 2016 06 04 13 49 31 80mm
PES 2016 06 04 13 44 35 125mm
 
North American AT-16 Harvard
PES 2016 06 04 13 51 56 80mm
 
SAAB Safirs and a Harvard
PES 2016 06 04 14 03 40 220mm B
 
De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk 22
PES 2016 06 04 14 05 26 98mm
 
North American AT-16 Harvard
PES 2016 06 04 14 09 27 86mm
 
SAAB Safirs
PES 2016 06 04 14 18 29 185mm
 
De Havilland DH-115 Vampire
PES 2016 06 04 14 21 03 160mm C
PES 2016 06 04 14 24 30 400mm A
 
De Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk 22
PES 2016 06 04 14 34 32 400mm C
 
North American TRF-51D Mustang and Douglas A-26 Intruder
PES 2016 06 04 15 45 43 230mm
PES 2016 06 04 15 45 46 130mm
 

 



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Great shots Peter, too many to pick a fav.



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Love this set.  (I have been looking forward to seeing this since you said that you were going to that airshow).  Well done.  Thank you for sharing those.

 

 

 

Those Vampires are such cool planes.   



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Thanks, Rob and Shane.
Shooting a show like this is a challenge as the focal length ideally dictates one speed, but then the propellers look like they stand still... I mostly used 1/60 to 1/100. The exception is the Vampire, as a jet against the sky can be shot with short exposure times.

I am a bit surprised that the D300 and 80-400 AF-S combination worked as well as it did. The only problem is getting things in focus again when the follow-focus loses the plot. It was nice to have the room to concentrate on the photography without spectators getting in the way. I had access to the SAPS (Swedish Aviation Photographers' Society) enclosure this day. The enclosure looked like this. Photo: Tommy Olsson  Edit 2019: the link is dead.



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I thought that you nailed the perfect balance of prop blur.  Great panning.  The smoke shots turned out nicely too. 

 

I got a chuckle out of the linked photo of the enclosure.   Quite a few 70-200mm fans in that bunch.   :lol:

 

 

I do love the Mustang.  Such a cool plane.  I think my favorite 3 planes of that era were the Mustangs, the Spitfires, and the Corsairs.  



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The group was shot during one of the slow and close parts, otherwise there were more 600/4L lenses than anything else.

 

My favourite planes from that era are a bit different than most as the P51B, the P40 and the FW 190 are so overshadowed by the D-mustang, the Bearcat and the Me-109. It is too bad that so few still are in flyable condition.



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Those really are underrated planes, all of them very cool, and all overshadowed by the other planes.  

 

I have always loved the P40's.   The P51-B were one of my favorite models of the Mustangs.  It was before they redesigned the tail section.  I like the original tail.   I wasn't as familiar with the Focke-Wulf planes, admittedly because the others were more widely publicized. (Mainly the ME-109 and the ME-262, which I never understood the fascination with the 262 since there was a high likelihood that they would explode on take-off.  But I guess jets in WWII were a hot discussion item, even if they were a bit dangerous to operate).