Hamilton Skyfest 2015 pictures

[martin_sam_2000]

Here are a few pics form the recent 2015 Hamilton Skyfest. These are just a few that threw up on Facebook. I should have more down the road as I process them.

Friday night they did a night run and I was able to get some decent shots:

MAM's Mosquito


VWC's P-51


CWHM's B-25


and for me the neatest one, VWC's and CWHM's Lysanders together:



But the highlight for me was earlier Fir I was given the opportunity to ride in the back of the CWHM's B-25 while we flew in formation with VWC's P-51. One of the most amazing experiences I have ever had.

I was shooting through a plexi window and my batteries died halfway through ( :bandhead2:/> ) and missed som eof the better lighting, so they are not as good as they could be, but here ya go:









Thanks for looking,

Sean

[Steve Nelson]

Great shots! Do they deliberately wet down the ramp for the "warbirds after dark" event?

SN

[mexchiwa]

Kind of makes me wish that Mossie was black... Great pics, thanks!

[martin_sam_2000]

Great shots! Do they deliberately wet down the ramp for the "warbirds after dark" event?

SN

Yes. It gives the photos a little more atmosphere. The ramp was very uneven and most of the water ran down around the photographers feet rather than pooling under the aircraft.

Sean

[martin_sam_2000]

duplicate....sorry

[K5DH]

Good stuff, Martin_sam_2000! The night shots came out great. And isn't air-to-air shooting a blast?

[Dave Hadfield]

Yes, we had fun -- that's me in the VWoC Lysander.

We tried getting the 2 of them closer for the night run, but their wings are so long!

And we also did formation photo flights -- one with a Harvard as the photo ship, and one with just the 2 Lysanders.

I don't think that has happened since the 4 Alberta aircraft stopped crop dusting in about 1950!



The opportunity was tremendous here -- not only did you get to ride in a Warbird, but often you were able to do it in formation with another. And that is very rare.

The same thing will happen a number of times this summer between VWoC and CWH. The next event is at Gatineau on June 30/July 01. Then we will have the P-40 and our Harvard at Geneseo. Then Aug 15 in Hamilton again. And finally Sept 19/20 at Gatineau. There will be various combinations of warbirds -- sometimes impromptu, sometimes planned, but the creme-de-la-creme is putting the P-40 and P-51 on the wing of the Lancaster -- you can't do that anywhere else in the world.



Dave