Indianapolis Airshow 2008

North American Aviation P-51 Mustang taking off on Sunday morning. This was an Honorable Mention in the

Indianapolis Airshow Photo Contest! My first entry to a contest and I get noticed. Very cool!

Supermarine Spitfire

B-25 just returning from the WWII fighter and bomber show.

B-17 also just returning from the WWII show.

L-39's taking off for the aerobatic formation act. Look close, three of the four aircraft are in the picture.

TBM Avenger in the markings of the aircraft that George H W Bush flew while in the Navy.

Cessna Bobcat. This was not posed. It just so happened that he was watching an aircraft take off when I saw a

good photo opportunity.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

T-6 Pretty Cowling. This photo is one that I stitched together to make into a Riveting Photo. 53 images turned

into 15,600 x 8040 pixels. That's 125.4 Megapixels. The next picture is a full resolution detail showing how much

information is really in the full image. It's really pretty hard to imagine until you actually see a print 44 x 24 inches

that's as crisp as a regular 8x10 photo.

T-6 Detail. The full resolution to try to give you an idea of the detail in one of my Riveting Photos.

Lockheed C-130.

Beautiful T-28 taking off on Sunday morning at the same time as the P-51.

NBC photo helicopter taking video of us taking pictures of it.

Passing on the interest in these wonderful old aircraft. In this case one of only two flying B-24's.

Crew members planning the day outside the hatch of the B-17.

Foggy Sunday Morning.

Sunday Morning Takeoffs.

Sunday morning and more takeoffs before the show begins from the other direction.

It takes an incredible amount of work to keep these old warbirds flying, and just as much work to put on an

airshow where a small city's worth of people turn up to live for a day.

I have to think this is one of the best ground to air photos I've ever taken. Boeing B-17 making a photo pass.

Medical Helicopter taking off during the show. I hope whoever this was for is OK...

F-117 Photo Model. These two future pilots will probably remember that they couldn't stay and play as long as

they really wanted. The cockpit alone took six months to build.

The star of the 2008 show. Lockheed F-22 Raptor. If you have never seen this aircraft do it's thing, you have

never seen an aircraft do things that an aircraft shouldn't be able to do! Square corners, backflips, tail slides,

controlled flat spins (without yaw vectoring!). So very amazingly cool. This 10 megapixel uncropped image looks

like it should be a magazine cover... hint, hint.

These aircraft made multiple passes after the main show was over and (nearly) everyone had left. Each pass

was a different formation and just as precise.

F-18 Demo returning from a spectacular... demo. The back of the Jeep says "FOLLOW ME".

Supermarine Spitfire ready and waiting for the show to begin.

Supermarine Spitfire waiting at the hold line for his turn to taxi and takeoff.

Near the end of the day on Sunday, a few aircraft return while another departs, stirring up a flock of birds.

B-25 departs at the end of the show. See you next year!

Indianapolis Airshow 2008