August ’15 Photo Competition - ‘PLANES & CHOPPERS'.

August’15 Photo Competition - ‘Planes’

This month’s competition topic has been chosen by our June winner ozjeff.

His choice is for this month’s topic is ‘Planes’. Entries may be from the ground, from the air, at airports or indeed anything provided it includes an aeroplane or part of an aeroplane in the shot. Even a paper plane. :)

This month the winner will receive a prize of a set of Nissan embossed tyre valve caps donated by Kallen (biggqwesty). http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/40.jpg Thanks Kallen


If any OTHER individual member (or vendor member) has anything you wish to donate as a prize - either as a one off, or regularly, please contact me via PM. For those of you who are vendors exposure & good will in a thread regularly read by far more than those who participate can only help your business. PM me if you can assist.

Good luck all, & thanks ozjeff

Ps. Please read though the pink bit below if you haven’t done so yet. Ta.

Pps. It always helps to post a brief explanatory caption with your entry. :wink:

Regards
Cuppa

Past winning photos can be viewed here.

Monthly Photo Competition guidelines (Please read)
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* Each month a new competition thread will commence & all forum members are invited to submit their photos .

* Maximum of three entries per person.

* Multiple entries should be made in separate posts

* Each entry should consist of a single photograph & a short description only

* Comments pertinent to entries are encouraged, but please do not use this thread to engage in banter

* Photos MUST have been taken by the member posting the photos or members of their party.

* Any photo which has been a winner will not be eligible for re-entry in any future competition.

* Please do not post photos that are not entries in the competition.

* Please do not re-post other folks entries within the thread

* The winner of the month's competition gets to choose the following month's competition topic.

* All members are encouraged to vote for the photos they think should win. This will be done by pressing the 'Thanks' button located underneath each post. Toward the end of the month the date & time of competition closure will be announced. Following this time the thread will be locked & the 'Thanks' counted to determine the winner.

* 'Thanks' may be added or withdrawn at any time during the month up until the competition is closed.
You are welcome to thank as many different posts as you wish!

* In the event of a tied first place I will add a casting vote, except in circumstances where my entry is one of the tied ones, in which case I will withdraw my entry.

*Inappropriate photos eg, sexual, racist, violent etc are unacceptable & should not be posted.


Thanks for your cooperation

Entry 1. Where's the helicopter? Perth Skyshow 2014
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps6ojdykcl.jpg

RC plane..one of my old ones..

Training flight above Darwin

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...pslfgwheba.jpg

Flying between the islands of Vanuatu can involve some ‘interesting’ manoeuvres to take off & land, but this pilot was pretty laid back once up in the air.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/42.jpg

Entry 1. At the air port.

Used to run APAC operations for Lufthansa
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/46.jpg


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Originally Posted by graeme1969

C17 is the plane your looking at.

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Yup, C17, at least version 2 of "Globemaster" ... the previous one was a four engine prop job ..

Oohhhhhh! How to choose! How to choose!!! Hmmmmmm


Got a couple................. Of thousand! Lol


http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/54.jpg


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MudrunnerTD - I knew when ozjeff chose the topic that choosing your 3 entries could keep you awake at nights! :)

Husky - please could you edit your two posts above so each has only 1 photo in it. More than one per post makes voting at the end of the month impossible. Ta.

Monthly Photo Competition guidelines (Please read)
​
* Each month a new competition thread will commence & all forum members are invited to submit their photos .

* Maximum of three entries per person.

* Multiple entries should be made in separate posts

* Each entry should consist of a single photograph & a short description only

* Comments pertinent to entries are encouraged, but please do not use this thread to engage in banter

* Photos MUST have been taken by the member posting the photos or members of their party.

* Any photo which has been a winner will not be eligible for re-entry in any future competition.

* Please do not post photos that are not entries in the competition.

* Please do not re-post other folks entries within the thread

* The winner of the month's competition gets to choose the following month's competition topic.

* All members are encouraged to vote for the photos they think should win. This will be done by pressing the 'Thanks' button located underneath each post. Toward the end of the month the date & time of competition closure will be announced. Following this time the thread will be locked & the 'Thanks' counted to determine the winner.

* 'Thanks' may be added or withdrawn at any time during the month up until the competition is closed.
You are welcome to thank as many different posts as you wish!

* In the event of a tied first place I will add a casting vote, except in circumstances where my entry is one of the tied ones, in which case I will withdraw my entry.

*Inappropriate photos eg, sexual, racist, violent etc are unacceptable & should not be posted.


Thanks for your cooperation

Biggest plane Ive seen was the Russian Antanov 123 when it came here in '89
massive plane absolutely massive

Entry 1 - Down at RAAF Base East Sale, VIC at the daughters graduation ceremony.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/57.jpg

Entry 2. Flight to WA. Location of photo unknown.

The short ‘runway’ on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. At the end of the grass is a cliff, a sheer drop into the sea. When taking off the plane drops off the edge at speed before climbing again. The other end of the runway is just a few feet behind the plane. When landing a week earlier the pilot hit the ground as close to the cliff as he could & then jammed on the brakes. The ground was wet & he got the plane ‘sideways’ but managed to stop inches before ploughing into the jungle. The plane was splattered with mud like a 4wd.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/58.jpg

My taxi from the top of Mitchell Falls

[url=https://flic.kr/p/x5MWSt]http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/59.jpg

Entry 3.
Air force / Army flying around at the time of the 2013 floods.

If helicopters are planes then my entry is a chopper flight at Helen's Gorge West Macs. Bloody scary with no doors...LOL
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...id=60418&stc=1

Entry2. Special access when your uncle works at the air show.... Hornet.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/60.jpg


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Originally Posted by Nisshead

If helicopters are planes

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Guess I should say something about that now that you’ve raised it. I have also been asked about via PM.

The first entry was of a chopper,& now there have been several. I realise that choppers are not planes, but decided that it would do no harm to broaden the topic a little in the interests of maximising the number of entries. No one has whinged about the choppers being here & I hope that this month’s topic chooser ozjeff is ok with letting the choppers in.

So Planes & Choppers it is.
If you think it should be broadened further to ‘Aircraft’ click Thanks on this post. If I get 15 or more thanks I’ll make it Aircraft. If less than 15 we’ll keep it at Planes & Choppers.

Please don’t engage in discussion of your thoughts on this within the the thread.

Thanks
Cuppa

Fixed the title Cuppa and added Chppers.

This is a very hard category for me to post in!!!!! Seriously! I can't decide! Short listing at the moment.

Outback NSW around three years ago where it was decided that this would be a good spot to land, have some tea, wait for it to get dark, then go do some stuff.

He was due at 10.11am and made it spot on time.
Came in nice and slow as can be seen with leading edge and flaps slightly down.
Not as impressive as the F111's doing about 600knts at 100/150 ft from Indian Head to Inskip Point.Attachment 60452

2nd entry
Catalina on tarmac at Qantas museum Longreach between the 747 and 707. It is being restored by volunteers and was flown to Australia with 2 replacement DC3 engines from Nth America I think. During WW2 these planes (ex Qantas) flew non stop for up to 28 hours Perth to Ceylon (in those days) carrying VIP's and mail to the troops in radio silence to avoid the Japs. They never lost a plane. Amazing navigation and performance considering it is such a basic plane.

3rd entry
Indian Head taken from Cessna 206 at about 400ft. Joy flight was birthday present from my son and it was good to see Fraser from the air for the first time.

I was custodian of Sari the Bear from my little Girl's Kinder group. She got Top Secret Clearance and is one of the only Aussies to Touch the F22 RAPTOR. Most Advance Top Secret Fighter plane on the Planet!

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/84.jpg


To give some perspective on this pic. I was the Fire Guard for refueling on this aircraft. I stood inside the cordon. I stood and spoke to the Crew Chief of this group for 45 minutes only 300mm from the wing of this aircraft. After 45minutes making small talk I humorously asked if I could touch it? I was so close I could touch it with my elbow bent! Close!

He went immediately serious! "No Sir, you can not do that."........ "Really?"..... "Sir, if you touch the Aircraft I will Arrest you!"...... Oh! "No probs mate, I understand"

Was not a good time to show him this pic of his Crew sitting a Foreign Object on His Aircraft the day before! .... No no no! That would have been a very bad idea!

Lol! True story!


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Entry 3

Outback commuter. Taken at the Middleton Hotel (half way between Boulia & Winton). Used daily by owner of the pub to go to work (cattle mustering). His father runs the pub. On the day we were there he headed off to work on a station north of Mt Isa, a return trip of over 1200kms by road, & probably around 800kms by chopper.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/94.jpg

Gloster Meteor F.8 at Temora, NSW.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/96.jpgIMG_3338-Edit-2 by

Bob Howard, on Flickr

Entry 2.....

Taking off.....

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...2015/08/97.jpgIMG_4801-2 by

Bob Howard, on Flickr

Attachment 60565
A380 Wing from within an Emirates A380 at Dubai

Attachment 60571
737 wing on final approach to Cairns

Flying to King Island on a DC-3 ..... photo 1

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...psjbl4sydc.jpg

photo 2

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0frngqw7.jpg

Only have a couple of Pics of planes.
First Entry......

Attachment 60582
JetStar A320 on final approach to Cairns

The mighty Spitfire....

Not a particularly good shot but it's probably the best air shot I had. Taken with a Canon 350D and a cheap Sigma lens. Taken in Temora on a bloody cold cloudy day in June a few years back. Didn't shoot RAW in those days...

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...015/08/145.jpgIMG_3178-2 by

Bob Howard, on Flickr

Entry 2. Old timers
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...pszpcrzhnq.jpg

Entry 3. FIFO - Coming home. 2013
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...psc9o1bjlf.jpg

entry 1
Refueling at William Creek

Entry 2
Well we crashed on the Anne Bedell highway

Entry 3
Hope we can keep this in the air over the Bungles