well i had my rush for the day!

[ving]

just finished lunch. i went to some parkland/reserve on teh opposite side of the cooks river to the airport.... there i sat on a rock eating lunch and taking pictures while giant planes landed.... till i saw it!!!

a little grassy knoll right under the flightpath near the riverbank. it was about 2 meters tall and flat on top. "should I?" i asked myself, "bloody oath I should!!" came the answer from one of my personalities. and so with a rather large plane coming in (one of the lumpy ones (747 isnt it?)) I climbed the embankment and kneeled on the grass, which had been flattened by others. i set the camera to "sport mode"...

WOW!! it was such a rush! the plane was so close that i felt i could touch it!!! :D
i held the shutter down, not really watching the screen and got 2 shots off before it was over me. a piece of body neer the landing gear somewhere and the tail.... my heart was beating at a million mile per hour!!! :D
:party:

*** mental note *** next time bring ear plugs! :eek:

rang cheryl and told her. her response was pretty much boys! and :rolleyes: . i ofcourse didnt see her roll her eyes but i know she did ;)

[RB]

C'mon ving don't keep us in suspense, we wanna see the photos mate. !!!!!
I'm so excited, I'd love to do something like that.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

[ving]

have to wait a couple of days andrew. going out tonight so i wont get home till late and then tomorrow i wont get a chance till late in teh day to resize and upload teh pics :(
can ya wait a coupla days? can ya?? :D

[RB]

:tasdevil: :tasdevil: :tasdevil:
Mail me the memory card and I'll do it.
I can't wait 2 days........:mad2:

:lol:

[ving]

:rofl:

can you believe i am still buzzing from it! :D

[ving]

"X" marks the spot where i was.

[janoskiss]

Don't forget your homework, David! :poke:

[ving]

lol, OK!!!
now stop poking me! :P

[ballaratdragons]

WOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Can't wait to see the piccies :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

Newsflash - Virtual Cow Killed by falling aircraft - witnesses say Astrobelle was grazing and daydreaming when the Humongous Airbus just dropped out of the sky almost dismembering Astrobelle. Luckily for her she was grazing................

[netwolf]

What was that movie Tinpushers or something, were the two flight controllers get a buzz out of standing under aircraft as they land and geting the wind knocked out of em.
Regards

[mickoking]

When I was in the RAAF at Williamtown I was at the very end of the runway when a 707 took off, Awsome. I was taking photo's with a fish eye lens crouching on the ground (so i didn't appear in the shots) the Plane must have passed anly a matter of 10 of so metres above me. I will see if I still have the pics.

[Lee]

I got to stand about 5 metres off the side of the main runway at RAAF Scherger last year as a F-111 took off.... very cool, probably the cause of my hearing deficit now!

[Gargoyle_Steve]

That movie was "Pushing Tin" .... which is how the aircraft controllers in the movie describe what they do. Billy Bob Thornton, John Cusack - very funny ... and if you needed further reason to watch it Angelina Jolie looking very gorgeous!

I'd give it 4 banana's out of 5 - a must see if you have a quirky sense of humour!

[Adrian-H]

hahahaha houghy..

[Astroman]

For a laugh at getting close to a 747 check out this little movie... http://www.405themovie.com/view.asp

[iceman]

Can't wait to see the pics, Dave..

Post yours too, Mick!

Funny link Andrew, thanks!

[Omaroo]

While I was still at highschool back in the 70's, a mate of mine and I used to get through a hole in the fence at the end of the east-west runway and actually lie on the end of it. Our excuse was that we were researching wave theory for our physics class. We were convinced that if you lay right in the middle, the jet blast and lift patterns would cancel each other out due to destructive interference right down the centreline. We were very wrong.......

That WAS a rush. We'd be jailed for doing it now.

[CoombellKid]

We get the RAAF doing low fly overs out here in the bush. Somtimes I think
they must use Coombell and Rappville as way points on their missions. They
also use the range behind us to practice terrain tracking. They
scare the living be-jeezus out of ya. When they come in at 200 feet doing
what ever you only hear them leave. A few months back I was in the garden
when one chap came across. this was the first time I could hear him coming
I got a few seconds warning to look up at him flying right over head maybe
200 m above I could see his head gear and the components on it quite clearly.

The best view is watching them skim the tree tops a 1km or so away they
look awesome with the sound over there and the aircraft way ahead. I love
them and would love to have a ride.

When I used to live in Sydney I used to take my son Jake down to watch
aircraft take of from the airport. Never able to get that close but there
were a couple of spots in Mascot that could get you good views depending
on the runways being used. But that would of been awesome!!!

regards,CS sunny days

Rob

[ving]

in order of how it happened... oh it was more than 10 mteres by far but close enough for me :)


1. "the plane boss, the plane!"
2. & 3. "we are all gunna die!!!!"

[ving]

heres some more pics i took of planes and teh area...

[cahullian]

Don't look now dave but ASIO are knocking at the door.

Nice pics mate

Gazz

[Checker]

Nice pics there Ving. I can imaging the rush that you must have felt from a plane been so close to you and I bet the noise was defening :D

[h0ughy]

Well Ving, those teflon coated undies you got for CHristmas in brown would have come in handy EH!

[ving]

pardon?
;)

[fringe_dweller]

Those daring young men under the flying machines!
hehe noice one David - it reminds me of the scene from 'waynes world' when they lay on the bonnet of the car looking at the summery starry sky (while wayne whistles the theme from the original star trek series - amazing whistler! and it was at the end of the runway of the local airport lol)



My best experience of this type was at the 1990 farnborough air show in the UK, when 3 (or was it 5? cant remember now - got the pics somewhere) sea harrier jump jets put on a show for the crowd. They hovered tightly together less than a 100 mtrs away, just metres off the ground, for what seemed an eternity, but maybe was at least 5 - 10 minutes? doing bows to each other and the crowd, and just plane showing off with little dance routines. At the end of the show they just pointed their noses up and pppwoiwwww, shot off like ufo's straight up into the wild blue yonder.
The sound was unfreakin believable (saw lots of jets that day - nothing came close to that except the mig-29 maybe) the resonation and harmonics that built up was awesome - was like having you insides in a sonic blender, talk about thunder! it actually brought tears to my eyes, not sure why (not from pain), but very overwhelming and emotionally impressive effect.
Only other sonic thing that came even close I have experienced, would be at the 2000 BDO in adders - watching the 'Chemical Brother's' do their thing ;)

[RB]

:)

[33South]

One of the most 'impressive' noises Ive ever heard was front row central at the Avalon airshow from a Super Hornet going vertical.

Just booked for next year - 2day gold pass - anyone else going ?

[ving]

wheres the avalon air show chris?

[33South]

Avalon !!!! :P

Not the one near Palm Beach its pretty close to Geelong or about 1hr drive from Ballarat.

March 2007 is the next one

http://www.airshow.com.au/

[ving]

ballarat? gadw! i aint going that far!!!! :eek:

looks great tho! :thumbsup:

[fringe_dweller]

forgot, of course nothing like the old top fuelers at the local drags for an ear blasting sonic makeover at a cellular level :lol: :thumbsup: but I find they are over too quick for my liking ;) but their up there eh!

[fringe_dweller]

your going Ving and thats all there is about it!

I can see the headlines now 'Man Arrested for Laying on Runway in Path of Jet at Vic Airshow'
'Man explains, "I had to, as I no longer got buzz from commercial air traffic, and my habit demands a greater thrill" '

[ving]

:lol:
thanks Kearn, i'll tell cheryl that you said i had to go :P

[leon]

Great shooting Ving, Love It

[spacezebra]

Great pics Ving

Excellent

Cheers Petra

[33South]

Hey Vingo you can get yourself wiped out here.

Oct 21/22 2006

http://www.defence.gov.au/raaf/airshow/prices.htm


Richmond NSW bit closer than Ballarat and only $20.