Mosquito photo's from the past couple of months.

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Postby Gavin Conroy » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:05 pm

Here are a few photo's.
Been quite busy so have finally got round to it.























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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:27 pm

Bloody pleased to have you back and also with a superb set of photo's .. Gorgeous ! cool.gif
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Postby Charl » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:39 pm

Very nice, what an immaculate job.
Did you shoot the Mossie + Vampire over Auckland the other day?

Haha posted as I typed... fantastic shot!
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:24 pm

Gavin , Thank you Very Much these are amazing .. the air to air cool.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:50 pm

This is an ABSOLUTE required watch , Both videos really put you in the seat ! cool.gif

Again Thanks for the posting Gavin thumbup1.gif
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Postby Naki » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:56 am

Stunning...the one over the Skytower is amazing
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:34 am

Return to the first photo , even put in spent shell ejector and ring shoots in the bomb bay .. now that's authentic ! cool.gif

In photo No.8 , you can see the modified manifold giving only five on the exhaust stacks , a question recently asked in the forum .
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Postby AlisterC » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:41 pm

Amazing photos, such sharp details, and it's so great to get up so close and personal through your lens. Thanks very much for posting Gavin!
That one with Auckland city is great especially.
And look how close those props are to the fuselage in the engine run up photos! Wow! What a machine.
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Postby Charl » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:40 pm

Yes enjoyed the video too - deeply impressed with the piloting of that Vampire; it was rock steady on the wing of the Mossie, no mean feat with a jet.
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:20 pm

It did take us a while to get together, we had the Spitfire flying at 210mph to make things easier for the pilots and me and got their eventually.
Doug flew nice and smooth so we got the job done.

Can't post any other Mossie photos for the time being but some of them are very nice, so the sooner the magazines get their jobs done the better :-)




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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:04 am

Well i guess now after a couple show's it to be packed away , Great series of photo's , did you have any cockpit pan around shots .
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Postby HamiltonWest » Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:08 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 20 2012,9:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well i guess now after a couple show's it to be packed away , Great series of photo's , did you have any cockpit pan around shots .

Confirmed by Gavin on another forum, The Mossie will be flying more than once at the Warbirds Open day 9-12-12
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18739
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:05 pm

One of the most exciting times of any photo shoot for me is the initial join up.
You often get to see what the enemy "may have" or "not seen" as a WW2 fighter approaches with a huge over take speed.
Am going to have to slow down quite a bit next year and this experience will be burned into my memory forever.

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Postby Mynameisnemo » Wed Nov 21, 2012 1:05 am

Gavin,
Thank you very very much for posting these, I've seen quite a few of your photo's on facebook and there's been a few posted in "The Peoples Mosquito" group on there! (which I'm part of!)

They are absolutely stunning and keep up the excellent work!

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Postby Ian Warren » Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:25 am

That is a powerful photo ... i keep thinking everything in WWII was in black and white ! cool.gif
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Thu Nov 22, 2012 7:50 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
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That is a powerful photo ... i keep thinking everything in WWII was in black and white ! cool.gif


The shot above is how it came out of the camera and almost looks B+W, the aeroplane was backlit and was worried the photo would not come out at all but luckily it did.
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Nov 23, 2012 7:37 am

One thing you may be able to tell us Gavin , the tires , example Spitfires tires last around 30 landings , now it would not be cheap , custom made warbird tires ? another regular and super expense we don't think off .
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