One of the local aircraft museums hosted a "Vintage Aircraft Weekend" at Paine Field here in Everett, with lots of activities and flight demonstrations. The day started cloudy and wet, but cleared up pretty nicely later in the afternoon, in time for the flight demos from several aircraft I'd been wanting to see in flight for some time. Here are a few...

Douglas TBM-3 Avenger torpedo bomber...

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Douglas AD-4N Skyraider - originally developed for the Navy as a carrier-based maritime patrol aircraft, it was later converted to a light bomber/ground attack role during the Viet Nam war...

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I think your black and white photos are exceptionally well done!

Just a quick comment on the male vs female model, as an artist, painter and illustrator I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours learning to draw (the preferred term is 'undraped' not 'nude' at least at the Los Angeles Art Directors Guild) the human figure. It is also one of the most difficult things to learn to draw and paint convincingly because we are all so very familiar with the human body, that we all easily recognize the smallest flaw in the finished piece. I have drawn both male and female undraped figures, and I think that I'm learning to see the beauty in each, but it's been harder for me to see the beauty in the male body. I thought it very interesting to note that at a membership vote at the Guild a couple of months ago, with the membership being just about 50/50 male and female, the question was asked if we preferred male or female models, and the result was that 76% preferred female models, 18% preferred male models and the remaining 6% said they had no preference in gender, as long as the model knew what they were doing, they just wanted to draw. Although I have done a lot of drawing, I have only photographed one undraped female, and I was actually surprised at how difficult finding a good pose and complimentary lighting setup was. Consider that we use term 'handsome' for men and the word 'beautiful' to describe women, if someone talks about a beautiful man it's hard to imagine what that would look like, and if someone says that a woman is handsome, well, that's isn't usually considered a compliment. So here's my bottom line, because I find the female form amazingly beautiful, with curves, and breasts, and softness and gentleness, I can see the beauty easily, with a male model it's much more difficult . . . but it's there, we just have to learn to see it.

The Slater is the only remaining DDE left. It was originally sold (given?) to the Greek Navy after the war (WW2?, Korea?, Vietnam? -- not sure). When the Greeks no longer wanted it, it was scheduled to be cut up for scrap, but some enterprising ex-navy (I think) bought and it was refurbished and placed in the Hudson river in Albany, NY where it is now a floating museum. This series of ten photos from the more than 35 that I took will show you a little bit about the ship. Visiting it was an interesting experience.
Destroyer escorts were used for protecting the convoys in WW2 and for anti-submarine activities.
Hope you get a chance to someday visit this piece of history.
Bud
PS I was in the Army during the Korean war.

Thanks to all responders. I knew that this topic was confusing. I understand why even the knowledgeable members sometimes get things "almost" right.


Here is a link to the 430EX III-RT brochure (Look under the Overview heading and click on Brochures).
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/cameras/flashes/speedlite-430ex-iii-rt

It shows the 430EX III-RT, in radio mode, as either master or slave. In optical mode, it is slave only.

As an aside, the Yongnuo YN660EX RT, in optical mode, is slave only. This is different from the Canon 600EX II-RT, which can be master or slave in either radio or optical mode.

I decided to go first class and purchase one 430EX III-RT and one 600EX II-RT. This is not inexpensive, but I expect them to be high performance, flexible, and trouble free.

Thanks again for all of your help.

I am presently using the built-in flash of my Canon EOS 70D to optically trigger my 430EX-II off camera flash using E-TTL.
This works to a limited degree but I want to move up to a radio triggered off camera flash using E-TTL.

For a off camera slave, I know that I can use either Canon's 600EX-RT, 600EX II-RT, or 430EX-II RT flash.
For a camera attached master, I can use any of these or a Canon ST-E3-RT trigger.

If these were all that I had available, I think that I would go with one 600EX II-RT and one 430EX-II RT flash. Either could be master or slave. This would give me a lot of flexibility and power, with control of lighting ratios.
However that is is fairly expensive.

Taken yesterday. Not the ideal time of day to take pictures but I had no choice. Besides being around noon time with next to no clouds in the sky i had to deal with a large crowd making it very difficult to get any shots without several people in the picture or just blocking any view of the planes.I was able to get some shots without any one in them or next to no one that would be easy to remove in photoshop. The two aircraft are the T 28 Trojan trainer and the Soviet Yak-130 i do believe. Any comment are welcome.