A low pass from a Me109G at Duxford yesterday:
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13th July 2015, 12:16 PM #1
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Achtung!
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13th July 2015, 01:56 PM #2
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Nicely captured.
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13th July 2015, 02:02 PM #3
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Same as John, nicely captured.
Cheers: Allan
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13th July 2015, 03:12 PM #4
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Neat capture! Your shutter speed IMO was perfect to catch the prop in a blur.
I have learned a lot about aircraft from images posted on this site...
Something I never noticed: apparently the rear wheel of the Me-109 doesn't retract. I guess that was the same with the Spitfire. However the P-51 Mustang apparently has retracting rear wheel (deduced from images of the P-51 found on Google). I would guess that a rear wheel hanging down might result in some wind resistance which could have deteriorated the performance just a bit.Last edited by rpcrowe; 13th July 2015 at 03:19 PM.
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13th July 2015, 03:25 PM #5
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Early Spitfire marks had a non retracting rear wheel, but later derivatives did. I'll have a variety to post - 2200 shots from 3 hours to go through!!!!
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13th July 2015, 03:42 PM #6
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Yep, nicely captured. What was the shutter speed Phil?
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13th July 2015, 03:50 PM #7
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Can't remember off the top of my head - I was generally shooting at around 1/320-1/500th with +2/3EV on auto ISO with a 150 to 600mm lens. Taxing and static shots were a bit slower
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