CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

The Demon-1 biplane, known as "Dracula", was originally conceived by Kyle Franklin and his late father Jimmy. Dracula combines the pleasing lines of the iconic Waco Mystery Ship with modern aerodynamics and systems, resulting in a smaller, lighter, and significantly more maneuverable and powerful airplane.

Kyle Franklin - Dracula by Paul Sager, on Flickr


The North American T-6 Texan was known as "the pilot maker" because of its important role in preparing WWII pilots for combat. U.S. Navy pilots flew the airplane extensively, under the SNJ designation.

Jeff Shetterly - Texan SNJ-6


EAA AirVenture 2019 included demonstrations of water drops during the daily air shows. The red and yellow Viking Canadair amphibian plane flew to nearby Lake Winnebago, where it skimmed the surface to suck up water, then returned to the airport and dropped its aquatic payload.

Viking CL-215


The MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) is a giant water / chemical tank loaded into the cargo hold of a Lockheed C-130. The MAFFS holds about 2,700 gallons of water. This is the best weapon the military has to combat fire.

Lockheed C-130 Hercules


Digital images shared in this post were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII and EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II, alone and with either the EF Extender 1.4x or 2x. Processing was performed in Lightroom and noise processing in Topaz DeNoise6.

Team members Mark Sorenson and Mark Nowosielski fly identical Tiger Yak 55s. Both pilots have day jobs as Boeing 737 pilots for Southwest Airlines.

Twin Tigers


All images were captured hand-held from the flightline during the daily airshows. The exposure details are available from the host Flickr pages using the URL titles of each image.

The unofficial Yak-110 designation is what happens when you put two Yak-55s together and add an extra Lear 24 CJ jet engine below the center wing.

Yak-110


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Ourspolair

Great captures and rendeinr. Thanks for sharing.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Great set and background Paul - I always look forward to your airshow pics. That 300 f2.8 is a bit of a “bear” at 6Lbs, but it really gets the job one with or without an extender. My son has one...

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

These are terrific shots Paul!

Hereford Loc: Palm Coast, FL

Those are sharp and wonderful captures. Don't often see planes in flight of this caliber.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

The quality of these shots is amazing!

badapple Loc: Twin Lake, Michigan

Wonderful photographs. I enjoy your work very much and always look forward to it.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Thank you George, Chris, Gary, Hereford, Carol, badapple! They haven't cancelled the Chicago Air & Water show yet for August 2021, right now playing wait and see. I don't think I'll be to Oshkosh this summer. Maybe something / somewhere later this year.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Enjoyed!

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Great set Paul and info.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

rusty nails Loc: Palm Coast FL.

Great shots, airshows are one of my favorite photo trips. Glad to see them back this year, I was at Oshkosh a few years ago when the Blue Angels flew. What a great show they put on

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Thank you John, Vince, Jerry, Rusty Nails! Now almost two years later I still haven't finished a few posts from the results of 2019. Glad you enjoyed.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Beautiful images - well done!!

DakotaColt

More of your great shots at OSH Paul. I really appreciate them as I"m usually too busy to watch the 'airshow' part, and my pictures are not of a quality to post here anyway. The majority of which are in cowlings, under wings of the landing gear, in cockpits, etc and those are mostly of homebuilts. I did get a couple shots of Fifi and Doc flying together a couple years back, a pretty rare sight these days, and a bunch of the little Lockheed copy built by a man in Minn. from sketchy plans and photos. You could tell by its looks that it was Lockheed but it wasn't built until toward the end of the war; too late so it was junked. It had been meant to be a cheap single place for soldier(s) to fly in groups to where they could land and be effective in battle. It had a sheath for his rifle etc., and a little side door where he could raise the canopy and step onto the ground with rifle drawn. As I recall the pilot who flew it over to OSH said the little Continental powered plane flew pretty well. Every year there is an amazing amount of aerial machinery to view, hope you can make it again. Last year would have been #42 volunteering but at 81 now I'm slowing down and not taking on any long term projects anymore. I threaten one of these years to just go and attend the airshow just to see it; the vendors and the thousands of planes including antiques, factory made, military, and homebuilts made in members garages with love and details. My photo gear is pretty low as a Canon G12 & A590, and an iPhone. I have been working in the Workshops area, the old tin building between the formerly NASA building and the 'Homebuilders headquarters' showing folks how to form aluminum ribs. Stop by, any of you who come, I'll be in an EAA cap wearing a mask.....among a few others!!!! Jim Martin