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Practice panning to follow an airplane - with 100-300 II

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Practice panning to follow an airplane - with 100-300 II
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These airplanes I can pan with! At the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, 1909 through WWI planes (and a couple somewhat later). All biplanes. I had my 100-300 II on my G7 for this:

One of the oldest planes - they didn't get it up very high, so if the engine cut out it would just land.

A slightly more recent really weird plan - flying!

A "jenny" - this one really flies! Note the "US NAVY" - not air force, didn't exist yet

The "jenny", top view. 300mm - not cropped - with the 100-300 II

A Fokker taking off

Fokker was the last name of the Dutch designer of these planes used by Germany.

Near the end of the show, three biplanes in the air at once

and one full size, 300mm shot:

fortunate alignment! 300mm

The red plane did loop the loops, flew upside down, did a vertical climb, flip over at the top; neat tricks

I hope you enjoyed these. I didn't vignette correct, or anything besides developing from raw. I did crop a couple of images, don't remember if any of these. Amazing to see these planes (especially the REALLY old ones with an engine we'd put in a lawn mower) get off the ground.

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