Airshow Airpower 2009 in Austria

[Hieronymus]

Hi there,

today I continued my work to sort the pictures I took during this airshow. So far I have perhaps 20% of them all and I thought I should post a few more for you to see.

So here are some of the shots which I have taken and I really hope you like them as I do.

Here are 2 lucky shots of the Red Bull Aerobatic Team, looks scary doesn’t it?

specially this one:

This F-16 was really looking awesome

Is he on fire? no just loosing one of many flares druing his display

The Patrouille de Suisse presented a new figure during their show, which the called the “San Bernadino Tunnel”
I catched the Solo F-5 miliseconds before entering the “Tunnel”

At one point during their display they had a stranger accompanying them:

here he is again:

Red Bulls B-25 in flight, very loud (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful sound) and very fast (and low)

My all time favorit, Red Bull’s Corsair

after taxing by, he stopped and started flapping with his wings, they spectators loved it!

Red Bull’s Lightning in flight, unfortunately the pilot did only 2 flyovers at slow speed and pretty high altitude, I had to use my large 800mm lens!

The Queen of the airshow was Red Bull’s DC-6, the sound of those 4 radials gave me goosebumps and the speed of that lady is astonishing, specially at less than 200 feet:

This Belgian F-16 had an interesting paint job

and the Smart “Follow me car” had a hard time when this Business Jet chased him down the entire taxiway!

Have fun and

keep on modeling
René
www.usns.biz

[B-17_Guy]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing those! Seems like you really know what you are doing with a camera.

I do have to gripe though. While I’m very happy to see the war birds flying, I really hate seeing the stupid red bull logo on them like that. Especially when that is all they have for markings. Those aircraft should be in combat colors!!! They should Not be used as flying billboards, reserve that for the aerobatic planes, especially the lightning, how many of those are left? They could have at least put on star and bars! Sorry…end rant.

[toomanyslurpees]

I kinda think the same thing about the redbull logos, but at the same time they’re putting up the money to keep these things running, which they otherwise wouldn’t be, probably, and the redbull logos can be removed in the future.

Who’s is the orange F-16? pretty cool.