Cool stories Gary. I've been looking through finding aircraft I've flown on, though most I have no idea of their rego etc.
I hope Chris doesn't mind me posting images in his thread, but his shot got me outside today at work where I snapped these few.
The first one, this aircraft was overflying at around 30,000 feet, so I estimate from the angle I took the photo, it was about 18km's away.
This next one was probably 2000 feet up after takeoff (I'm working over the hill from Canberra airport). Who'd have thought prop planes could leave contrails too !! Check out the helical contrails from the propellors!!
A boyd.
Another boyd.
All shot taken with the Canon 7D and 70-200mm f/4L IS, with Canon 1.4x Tele-Extender.
The two aircraft ones are straight from the camera, 100% crops.
The boyds were sharpened in Gimp. Does anyone know how to get decent looking sharpening in Gimp? These are the best i could get, and they're terrible. The originals look better. The reds are way too intense too, though that's straight from the camera.
Cheers,
Jason.