On the flight back home to KFTW after the DFW Airport Aviation Career Expo, if had the honor of doing an A2A photo shoot from the back seat of Carl Best's AT-6 Texan! Pat Mahaffey and Ray Fowler were the B-17 pilots and Bill Gorin was the engineer. We took off from KDFW and headed out to an area northwest of Fort Worth for much of the shoot. We spent a lot of time over the beautiful Eagle Mountain Lake. We had a second photographer, James Flair, up with us in Bob Reed's gorgeous F33C Bonanza. Hopefully James will be able to add some great shots to this thread.
Here is a selection of tolerable pictures that I'm not too embarassed to show. Go easy on me, folks. This was my first A2A shoot from an open cockpit (it's really hard to hold a camera steady in a 150 MPH wind
) and I only had my small camera with me, my new Canon Powershot G12. This shoot was an unplanned event, otherwise I would have brought my DSLR and lenses. Let's go flying!
We'll start off with one of me, strapped into the Texan and ready to taxi out:
Here's our three-ship getting ready for takeoff on Rwy 18R:
Forming up:
And we'll end with this shot of Carl and me back on the ground at the VFM hangar. Yes, it took hours for that silly grin to leave my face! One of our members has a term for that syndrome: "PERMAGRIN"
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K5DH on Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.