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antonoat

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Advanced flier
« on: June 11, 2015, 17:37:01 »
Captured this recently at a small airshow, was amazed to see this vehicle giving an aerobatic display


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Jakov Minić

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Re: Advanced flier
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2015, 19:02:35 »
Were you also flying, you seem mighty close to the plane?
Great capture either way :)
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Frank Fremerey

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Re: Advanced flier
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2015, 19:25:41 »
Gyrocopter?
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Re: Advanced flier
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2015, 20:09:35 »
Frank beat me to it, James Bond would be proud.  8)

antonoat

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Re: Advanced flier
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2015, 18:05:12 »
Were you also flying, you seem mighty close to the plane?
Great capture either way :)

I was actually very close to the action using 400mm, the image is cropped slightly to eradicate empty space!
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Re: Advanced flier
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2015, 21:37:07 »
Interesting to see those little things can do such aerobatics !

Frank beat me to it, James Bond would be proud.  8)
Mike your comment really made me laugh out loud
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