Bear Dale
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This was a water bomber coming down to fill up with water to fight a bushfire, it looked like the pilot was lining me up for a strafing run.
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Dog Fight
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Chris Calohan II
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Just for clarification and while it doesn't diminish the quality of the image, it does tend to diminish the impact upon opening, but a strafing run is one thing and a dog fight, quite another, always involving two aircraft.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Great engineering on these planes! Are these planes an Aussie product?
Never heard of pontoon planes for fires here? But I am no expert! Actually I am pretty ignorant!
Asher
Never heard of pontoon planes for fires here? But I am no expert! Actually I am pretty ignorant!
Asher
Bear Dale
Member
Well it 'could' have been a dogfight if I'd been in another plane
The photo actually looks like I was
But, yes, I take your point!
Bear Dale
Member
Asher, I don't know much about them except that they are owned by the Rural Fire Service.
Chris Calohan II
Well-known member
Well it 'could' have been a dogfight if I'd been in another plane
The photo actually looks like I was
But, yes, I take your point!
If you had been in another plane, it would be called "suicide."
Peter Dexter
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Yikes! Those are beauties but where do they load water, in the pontoons? And I'm so glad no dogs were harmed in this post.
Antonio Correia
Well-known member
All images are exceptionally sharp !
What lens are you using ?
Anyway, it is a great work !
What lens are you using ?
Anyway, it is a great work !
Bear Dale
Member
If you had been in another plane, it would be called "suicide."
Not if I was the tail gunner ?
Bear Dale
Member
Yes the pontoons fill with water.
The planes are called Air Tractors.
There's some videos of them filling up here -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLGTAMgUTXuzCS3boRSYT_w/videos?disable_polymer=1
Bear Dale
Member
All images are exceptionally sharp !
What lens are you using ?
Anyway, it is a great work !
Thanks, I was using a Nikkor 200-500mm lens.