Yankee's aviation photos :)

is that the moon in one of those pics?

wow amazing

Kinda, the moon is in 3 of the pics.

Yankee wrote:

Those are my favs lately haha. Really awesome pics.

Thank you
Alot of aviation photographers I know have a hard time taking pictures of airplanes like the ones I posted, these where just lucky ones.

Yeah the moon pics are epic!

Thanks!

This beast (Antonov 124) landed at my airport today.

That's huge, there is one of them in the film 2012. Nice pictures mate.

Thanks, here are some specs on it (copyed from wikipedia)

General characteristics
Crew: 4-6 (pilot, copilot, navigator,senior flight engineer (+flight engineer, radioman) + 2 loadmasters
Capacity: 88 passengers or the hold can take an additional 350 on a palletised seating system
Payload: 150,000 kg (330,000 lb)
Length: 68.96 m (226 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 73.3 m (240 ft 5 in)
Height: 20.78 m (68 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 628 m² (6,760 sq ft)
Empty weight: 175,000 kg (385,000 lb)
Loaded weight: 405,000 kg (893,000 lb)
Useful load: 230,000 kg (508,000 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 405,000 kg (893,000 lb)
Powerplant: 4 × Ivchenko Progress D-18T turbofans, 229.5 kN (51,600 lbf) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 865 km/h (467 kn (537 mph))
Cruise speed: 800–850 km/h (430 kn (490 mph))
Range: 5,400 km (2,900 nm, 3,360 mi (5,410 km))
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
Wing loading: 365 kg/m² (74.7 lb/sq ft)
Thrust/weight: 0.23

^I like those two pictures of the helicopters the best. But nice pics! I just love helicopters haha.

I've got a new appreciation for airplanes, now that I've just taken 9 flights!

Thanks guys!

I've been into airplanes for as long as I can remember and I probably will be for the rest of my life, however, I'm afraid of flying on them but I love taking photos of them.

Afraid of flying? For what reason mate? I had never done it until I went to Iceland, now I've flown 13 times

I dont know why, maybe its because the only flights Ive taken have been bumpy ones.

lol, well all of the flights have bumps! The flights over the pacific were long though.... 13 hours each way!

I don't enjoy being on planes either. Can never sleep when I am on them, even the ones around 15 hours long haha.

Well true, I can't really sleep either. I did sleep for 15 hours when I got back home though

Really like the second to last pic. It's like peaceful with the flowers and nature and then a huge winged black/silver behemoth in the back. lol really contrasty

Thanks, that silver/black behemoth belongs to a company based in UK called Gama Aviation (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gama_Aviation )

gold94corolla wrote:

lol, well all of the flights have bumps! The flights over the pacific were long though.... 13 hours each way!

what the hell? lol i have never done a plane ride. 13 hours? man ..idk about that...gives me butterflies thinkin about it. dont know why just does haha NICE PICS BTW.

^^^ yeah I'd never been on a plane until I went to Iceland last summer, that was 4 flights. Then Australia just now was another 9 flights lol. I'm pretty used to flying suddenly haha.

Hey Yankee, what is that helicopter thing (second to last pic)?