{"id":27026,"date":"2023-03-28T17:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:51:31","slug":"my-favorites-part-6-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=27026","title":{"rendered":"My Favorites: Part 6 Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While covering the Reno Air Races for Nikon we had the chance to photograph the Navy’s Blue Angels. \u00a0One morning a group of us were out at sunrise to photograph the planes on the tarmac and the Blue Angles F18 Hornets were all lined up and perfect for a portrait!<\/span><\/p>\n

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On another morning while out on dawn patrol great pre-sunrise light provided great background for a silouetted Glacier Girl – P38 Lightening. \u00a0The Glacier Girl was built about 50 miles from where I live so I got to follow the process of the rebuild. She was so named because she was extracted from deep under the ice in Greenland.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On another early morning, this time at Sun \u00a0n’ Fun Air Show in Lakeland Florida, I had the chance to capture a Harrier at sunrise. This McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier was performing at the air show.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This beautiful example of the Ryan open cockpit airplane was at the Sun N’ Fun antique aircraft section, graced by early morning light! \u00a0Nikon D800 with 24-70 lens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One again early morning pre-sunrise light was what this Canadian Trainer needed to show off it’s silver skin! \u00a0Reno Air Races.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While working for Nikon I was blessed to photograph 6 shuttle launches. \u00a0This one was captured from the VIP site at our compound with a D300 and a 500mm lens with a 1.4 converter The launch pad was 2.5 miles away and this set-up was equivalent of 1,125mm lens! \u00a0Even that far away the rumble from the rocket engines is pounding!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This only a few of my thousands of aviation shots, I hope you enjoyed them!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bonus shot!<\/span><\/p>\n

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While working the Reno Air Show I got a ride in one of the T-6 Texan Racing planes to go and photograph Lake Tahoe for my second America From 500 Feet Book, while coming back we got close to another Texan and I as able to photograph it air to air \u00a0This is me below in the one I was flying in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  While covering the Reno Air Races for Nikon we had the chance to photograph the Navy’s Blue Angels. \u00a0One morning a group of us were out at sunrise to photograph the planes on the tarmac and the Blue Angles F18 Hornets were all lined up and perfect for a portrait!   On another morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27038,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions\/27038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}