loose lips sink ships
Or in this case, down aircraft. Despite my earlier resolve, I didn’t go visit the Elvington airshow this year either. The weather was crappy on Friday and Saturday and I really didn’t hold out much hope for Sunday. Fortunately, the skies did clear up a bit so I took the opportunity to saunter down to the neighbouring field and watch part of the air display. It was mad fun.
Yes, I took some photos – but then I discovered tintop’s photostream and that has put my humble photography skillz to shame. Struck up a conversation with some other onlookers on the same field and I heard complaints that Elvington has declined in quality and aircraft displays since about 2002 … and that it’s a steady downward spiral to mediocrity. It was still a blast for me in every sense of the word though (yeah, especially the bombing run) – even though the weather was a bit of a spoilsport and my tshirt wasn’t proof against a constant chilly breeze.
And in other news, I suspect that my flickrb0y account has been jacked. Bah. I have moved, perhaps appropriately (perhaps not) to this location. Yeah, it wasn’t a very secure password so I only have myself to blame if the other account has been taken over. I should rant about how hard Flickr makes it to do this whole merge account business but that’s a whinge for another day.
On 22-Aug-06 at 3:11 pm,
staticX wrote:
not to nitpick or anything..but more of the planes n less of the sorroundings wud have been great
On 22-Aug-06 at 4:57 pm,
drac wrote:
dude, I have a cheapass camera that does umm.. 3x (or is it 4x) zoom. The only way to get more of the surroundings would have been to sprout wings.
or strap a rocket to my ass.
or something.
But yes, duly noted
On 22-Aug-06 at 8:26 pm,
Chickenbutt wrote:
drac : ass eh ? *grins evilly
staticX : oye do something about your commenting will you! i deleted my blogger account a long time back!
On 23-Aug-06 at 10:45 am,
spizkapa wrote:
Dude,
I went to the Farnborough airshow this year. The display included: MIG29, Eurofighter Typhooon, both new Boeing planes (the 600 and 800 seater), Red Arrows display and lots of other goodies. You’d think I’d be like “blah, who cares about Elvington…” but a bombing run! You lucky so and so!
On 23-Aug-06 at 12:12 pm,
staticX wrote:
Drac: At the risk of permenantly being labeled as a nitpicker..I did ask for more of the planes n not more of the sourroundings
Chickenbutt: huh?!?!?! forgive my ignorance but I hav no idea what u r talking abt…
On 23-Aug-06 at 1:19 pm,
drac wrote:
whee, spizkapa. You back from your intercontinental trip yet? I haven’t heard about the return journey yet
But yeah, the bombing run livened up the proceedings considerably. Not so sure that I wouldn’t have swapped Farnborough with you, though 
staticX: Well, I look forward to your display of photography skillz next year then :p
Also, do you know how hard it is to keep track of a fast moving aircraft with a rinky dink LCD screen? Huh? Huh? I don’t know how the guys with telephoto lens do it, I really don’t.