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How short of a lens do ya need to use for those acft in-flight shots?

10-17mm

Well played, sir!

I think I was using a 28-80 or 80-200 on my MZ5. I'd probably want to use the HDDA 55-300 now. If I was doing air-to-air for the RAAF from a Herc or a Spartan, I could get away with the DFA 150-450, but there's no chance of me doing that. I was told by a guy who did take air-to-air from a Herc decades ago that a Macchi trainer stuck its nose in the back of the Herc and someone was able to touch it. I never saw the photo of it.

Fair enough! A very big plane from right underneath.

Sniffin' a Herc's butt?? What kinda perverts . . . ?

Now that's a really sweet 2-beer pub story, but what about the disturbed air over the inner wings and the 'dead' air at the wing-root engine intakes? Uhh, can you spell aerodynamic wing and engine compressor stalls and over-temp?

And then for the final act the ejection seats punch holes in the C-130's tail feathers? Now THAT'S colorful flyin'.

Yeah, a bit odd


It sounded hard to believe. As I said, I never got to see the photo. The RAAF Roulettes aerobatic team used to fly Macchis, but I don't know if even they were that crazy!