The A-1E and G had side-by-side seating. Off the top of my head those were the only side-by-side versions, the others had a single bubble canopy.

Great photos!

If I ever make it out to California, I'm going to have to catch that for sure.


That's Czech, isn't it? My bad, it's actually Dutch. Those two roundels are very similar.

You take the best pictures of F-16's (especially the T-Birds)!

Gopher, I was about to make the same mistake

Did the Dutch fly at Red Flag by chance? I'm not sure they'd send a single display Viper over just for fun, short on cash as all EU countries currently are.

Nice shots Ken, so that's a 7D full frame chip on what lens? I'm surprised you wanted more after the 1D MkII you have.

Great shots Ken. Glad you and Dave were able to meet up.

#22, I couldn't help but remember the line from "Top Gun", "You just flew through his jet wash! You just flew through his jet wash!"

We sure do have some top notch photographers here at SimHQ.

Thanks for sharing your work Ken. I had to close my eyes on #22. Thought we were gonna crash.

Thanks again everyone.

RS, the 7D is a new Canon 1.6 crop camera. It's like a 50D on steroids, for the most part, kind of a different approach for Canon, and I think designed to go head to head with the D300.

I originally decided to pick it up to replace my 20D, since I wanted to pass it on to one of my brothers who has a new kid he has had problems photographing with his point and shoot because the kid runs around so much.

I like the new viewfinder, and was really drawn to the fact that it can control a remote flash, a first for Canon dSLRs as far as I know.

I decided to use it for this show because it is 18MP and has 1.6 crop (vs. 1.3 for my 1D Mk. III), so I thought I might get a little more detail from shots where the aircraft is farther away. It does 8FPS, so it's not quite as fast as the 1D, but still plenty fast enough. I'm still doing some analysis, but the images do seem a bit noisier than the 1D, which probably isn't a surprise, but I haven't done a lot of detailed comparisons.

I used the same 100-400L lens that I used on the 1D, but get a little extra reach because of the 1.6 crop.

For all you techno-pixel-peepers out there, here are a couple of 100% crops from similar shots, the first from my 1D Mk. III last year at Nellis, and the second one from the 7D this year:

http://www.techflyer.net/images/nellis09/1U8P4825.jpg

http://www.techflyer.net/images/nellis09/IMG_0849.jpg

We did fly at Red Flag with 12 Vipers and are currently at Green Flag with those,

but this two seater is actually from our training detachment at Springfield, Ohio, where the main activity is the initial F-16 qualification for new upcoming Viper Drivers after completing training at Sheppard AFB. (I should be going there myself next june )

What equipment did you use?

Canon 7D with Canon 100-400

great shots Ken, and you know what im going to say about ur prop blur

i'm hoping to upgrade to 7's next year, all things going well