Warbird photos

[RMAllnutt]

http://www.rmallnutt.com/

I thought perhaps that some of you might like to see some of my air-to-air photos. My website is finally up... Most of the photos are from my other work, but scroll down to the bottom, and you'll find several decent air-to-airs. There are also a few shots of US Marines taken at Quantico in 2003 before deployment to Iraq. Hope that you enjoy the images.

Cheers,
Richard

[mrhenniger]

Very nice Richard. I know you had shown me that one of the Spitifre before, but that one with the F-18 trailing in the background is exceptional! Good stuff!

Mike

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[RMAllnutt]

Thanks very much Mike... I appreciate the comments! That was a hell of a flight!.... Ottawa is such a beautiful city too, especially from the air.

Cheers,
Richard

[DaveM2]

Nice shots, what was the photoship, especially since you got some head on pics ?

Dave

[mrhenniger]

I believe Richard got the shots from the B-25 "Panchito". It was in town for the Ottawa Flight Fest event in August 2003 which was based at the Carp airport.

Mike

[RMAllnutt]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for your compliments. The photo-ship was Larry Kelly's B-25, "Panchito" for each of the air-to-air. For the head-on shots, we removed the false tailturret from the aircraft, and I lay down on a mat with my hands actually out of the aircraft. The view was spectacular, and I must say there is such a difference when there is no perspex in between you and the air. The view is brighter, and crisper, and there's a magical feel to the whole thing. The first time I went up, I remember being totally in awe of the view... totally forgetting that we were actually going to do air-to-air. When the subject aircraft turned up at the tail to be photographed, it kinda took me by surprise, such was my absorbtion with the surroundings. Needless to say, taking the air-to-air images was absolutely fantastic! I love every minute of the experience... much like any of us would I suppose.

Cheers,
Richard

[DaveM2]

Somebody holding your feet ?

Dave

[RMAllnutt]

.... actually, no..., but I had my boots firmly wrapped around some ribs. The armour plate in the final bulkhead was pretty good to brace my arms up against. I never really felt uncomfortable at any point, except when we did a fighter break at the Ottawa show in 2003... there was a little pucker factor in that one !

There were a lot of jokes about the camera man in Catch-22 who fell out of his B-25 into the blades of a helicopter below... losing a foot in the process, but not his life. Apparently that guy was lost later in the film, when he again fell out, but there was no chopper to break his fall. Lost him off the Pacific coast somewhere. There was a much bigger hole in the aircraft on these occasions though. It would have been hard to fit my bulky frame through the opening in Panchito... Goldfinger notwithstanding .

Cheers,
Richard

[Ollie]

Good show Richard!

Congratulations on your very nice site!

[AIRIC]

Richard,

Excellent work. Was that Andy flying CO's Query or Gerry?

Eric

[ronolsen]

Richard,

All of the photo are great! Very nice work.

[RMAllnutt]

Thanks very much for all of your comments, I really appreciate them!

Eric, it was Jerry Yagen flying the "CO's Query". Obie O'brien was flying the Avenger. I really enjoyed talking with both of them, they are very decent guys.... incidentally, Obie flew -4 corsairs in Korea, which I would love to have talked more with him about. It's nice that he get's to fly their -1D corsair... can't be many people from that era still flying warbirds.

Cheers,
Richard

[DazDaMan]

Great pics, Richard.