Warbird Information Exchange

I'd suggest that a little bit of 'rotation' has been going on with that photo on Airliners.net. I was at the Malta show, and that particualr drop was performed during a sharp pull-up. There certainly was no 'Immelmann', or any similar manouvre, flown.

Here's one of my shots, showing a different angle on the same drop.

Random thread resurrection alert!

I was at the show too. Reading the photographer's remarks about the shot I'm a little confused.

On the first day of the show the aircraft made 3 water drops, the first and second were in quick succession and straight and level; the third was made in a 20-25 degree climb, as the water was running out he rolled right, initially gently but kept rolling until approx 70 degrees of roll was put on before recovering.

On the second day I didn't take any pics of the 415 demo as I was hung over and lying under a wing somewhere, but I certainly don't recall the aircraft doing anything radically different from the day before, it certainly didn't go inverted and would suggest the orientation of the camera and the photog's position explains the more radical angle in the pic that kicked off this thread (not deliberate rotation after the fact as some have suggested).

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Cheers for the update Damien. Makes perfect sense.

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