I took a few days off last week to go up to the Oshkosh AirVenture 2009 in Wisconsin. It was great to get away from all that is happening here with the release of the book and all. The weather was great, there were new friends to be made and all in all it was a great time. The largest commercial aircraft was at the show – The Airbus A380 double deck airliner. The new Virgin Atlantic VMS Eve, the aircraft designed to deliver the first commercial spaceship to orbit. The spaceship will be suspended between the two fuselages of VMS Eve as it fly’s to altitude before releasing the spaceship to ascend into orbit.

I spent time on detail images of many aircraft, some worked, some did not, but that is photography! The air show and flights of planes like the A380, VMS Eve and the big C5M made for great images. I hope I have captured the air dances which the aerobatic pilot’s performed over the skies of Wisconsin. The weather was perfect, giving us all wonderful clouds to work with as our backdrop. You had to anticipate the pilot’s moves to frame the planes against the clouds. With speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour thinking fast and a steady hand made for a great time creating images of the show.

To see more images use this link: http://www.mackphoto.com/blog/Oshkosh/

Enjoy!

Richard Mack