AIRCRAFT PHOTOGRAPHY: anyone else want to participate?

A couple of photos during flight ops from my old ship.
White one is a Sea King and the green is a Sea Sprite.
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LC-130 Ski Hercules at Willy's Field, Ross Island, Antarctica about January 1996.

Walking out to the aircraft for the nine hour flight to Christchurch after two weeks on the ship off-load team.

A standard Herc could do the flight in eight hours, the extra drag of the skis added an extra hour.

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I’m not a photographer, another old DC-3 with Basler coverted engines flying out of pickle lake, Ontario. Spotted this Thursday, was getting flown into work in a long ranger (bell 206L complete pile of shit)
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Attended AirVenture (EAA Oshkosh) this year.

Here's an original P-51C that was actually flown by the 332nd.

A total of 3,365 show planes were on display, including 1,497 registered in the vintage aircraft parking area (a record), 1,067 homebuilt aircraft, 380 warbirds, 194 ultralights, 134 seaplanes and amphibians, 52 aerobatic aircraft and 41 rotorcraft.
 

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Any history buffs in here? She’s going through a bit of a refresh, but she’s a good old girl.

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Ok, one more pic from my childhood (ok, ok...but with me at 70 now, it really does seem that long ago! LOL)

The Army was kind enough to fly us around Korea when up there TDY for training....well, they thought it was a kindness, I personally fucking hate flying in helicopters. Too many moving parts for me! haha

So, can't remember where we were going from/to, but it was in like...eh, '78 maybe. Close. And transmission oil light comes on so the Army pilot (that's him on the right, me on the left) dove for the ground as if that transmission locked up we were toast (I think...pretty sure). It was early morning and the rice paddy was frozen (Team Spirit exercise, I believe). As we waited for another helicopter with maintenance guys to come, it thawed out a bit and if you know anything about fertilizer in Asia in that period of time (and perhaps to this day) you can appreciate both the smell and my abiding aversion to helicopters.

Yes, it was just the sensor but....haha

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