Payerne

Photographer's Note

Teamwork's F-16 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force just after his "Touch & Go", during the airshow "Air 04" in Payerne - Switzerland.

Over the years, the F-16 has become one of the largest and most successful military aircraft in aviation history. And nowadays, although it is more than 30 years old, it keeps again all its freshness with a stunning look and a great aerodynamic. This fighter is always in production (today more than 4300 copies in 24 countries) and benefit from technological innovations permanently. It is to date one of the least costly modern fighters. Its price is about $24 millions. With an average operating cost of $2,200 per hour of flight, the F-16 is always more cheaper than for instance the $4,500 of the F/A-18, $4,300 for the Gripen, or over $20,000 for the Tornado.

The F-16 fleet in the world totalizes over 6,000,000 hours of flight time. A good 15% of that total were missions flown under risk, with around 50,000 combat missions, including more than 30,000 air-to-air and air-to-ground combat sorties. The F-16 Fighting Falcon has accumulated 74 air-to-air kills with no air-to-air losses except for one fratricide loss by the Pakistani Air Force when an missile switched-lock onto a wingman.

The F-16 has been in continuous combat operations around the globe since 1981. Of 74 kills achieved by the F-16 in the world, 47 are accredited to the Israeli forces. In 1982, F-16s played a key role in Operation "Drugstore", an attack on Syrian missiles sites in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Numerous missiles sites were attacked and destroyed, and fierce air battles with Syrian fighters took place. A total of 92 Syrian aircrafts (more than 30% of total Syrian inventory) were shot down, and Israeli F-16s achieved a victories ratio of 44-0.

"In A State" and next track "Burma", Sasha, Album "Involver" (2004).

Shot cropped + applying of a Neatimage filter to remove the noise in the sky.

f9, 1/800s, ISO 200, +0EV, 450mm (300mm x 1.5).
JPEG Quality : 95/100.

ttmountainman, maphoto, PLD_images, mumek, Galmeida, elihesamian, pamastro, Lakhwant ha contrassegnato questa nota come utile

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ttmountainman (2279) 2005-03-06 10:51

Hi phillipe,
Excellent picture...raw power of the aircraft...beautiful smooth sky...neatimage was controlled properly!

And a splendid note...Kudos!

Rgds
Vijay

My Dad was a fighter pilot...:-))

poulinp (4528) 2005-03-06 11:21

Superbe prise de vue, et merci pour le cours théorique, très intéressant! La position de l'avion est absolument spectaculaire.

maphoto (8082) 2005-03-06 11:34

Bonjour Philippe, J'attendais la suivante avec impatience :-) Excellente prise encore une fois, très bien composé, neatimage donne ici un résultat impeccable, très bonne netteté. Effet de la fumée et position de l'appareil superbe dans le cadre, très bon travail, merci pour le partage.

PLD_images (7149) 2005-03-06 12:20

Salut Philippe,

Il me semblait bien qu'il me disait quelques chose celui-ci. Je trouve que les graphiques sont vraiment superbes sur cette avion. D'après l'angle du F-16 et la forme de la fumée, je serais paorté de croire qu'il est toujours à basse vitesse et je trouve que l'ensemble donne vraiment une bonne composition originale. Plus souvent qu'autrement la fumée suit la ligne des ailes.
Bravo pour la note, elle est très instructive, complète et interessante.
Merci pour le tout.

tityop (6225) 2005-03-06 12:29

Bonjour Philippe,
Superbe photo de ce F-16 tres bien mis en valeur par le cadrage.
Vraiment magnifique !!
Amicalement.
Thierry

toni_al (15875) 2005-03-06 12:59

Magnifique capture, et bonne composition.Elle est superbe :-).
Toni

ishai (4097) 2005-03-06 14:22

Philippe
What an amazing shot
It looks like you are taking this shot from another airplane
Very good informational note
Great capture

papagolf21 (152607) 2005-03-06 14:55

Salut Philippe :))
Cet avion de chasse a fière allure pour un trentenaire. Quant au bruit dans le ciel, cela devait être infinitésimal par rapport au bruit lors de la démonstration en vol ! ;-))
Un cadrage parfait. J'aime beaucoup ces détails et les volutes dégagées par les fumigènes.
Encore une prise de vue à inscrire au tableau de chasse !
Très bien fait.
Amitiés.
P.S. : La note est excellente.
Philippe

mumek (20226) 2005-03-06 17:42

Excellent capture of F-16. Very good composition and details.The note is very, very informative.Thanks for posting.Bravo
best regards
ziggy

Galmeida (12559) 2005-03-06 19:37

My next life (?), I would like to be a aircraft pilot, but now I'm here and my Sea and Ground result. Don't mind because life is a routine and in all natural elements for also of us all. So, I like your mouvement, impulsive, emotional and also your decisive moments, because there is a insight in your way, to transmit quality in the air element and here you do very well.

Simplicitty, imagination, creativity, composition and excelent quality sudden moment picture.

Well done and thanks for sharing!

elihesamian (26149) 2005-03-07 8:38

WOWWW!
You are master in this motif,too,Philippe!
Breathtaking moment and view,Excellent capturing you did,and lovely blue which I know it as yours!
and amazingly composed in a best way in this frame,nicely composed and great,great note,Philippe!

(I miss You Friend!:)be free about me,sure)
Yours
M

verge (1242) 2005-03-07 8:43

excellent capture. the sharpness is still there am sure this was so fast. good job....rgds

verge

dolin (7369) 2005-03-09 3:35

Hello Philippe.
Encore une magnifique prise durant ce meeting.
A nouveau une photo pas évidente à capturer, et pourtant superbe réaslisation et très joliment cadré.
Bravo.
Fred

pamastro (7296) 2005-03-10 23:59

Nice continuation to the previous one of this plane. Linked together I can easily imagine seeing the entire touch and go. As in others the sheer power of the aircraft is well captured as well as the beautiful and aerodynamic lines of this craft. And the G-forces can even be imagined as it accelerates. It is quite an impressive aircraft, even after all these years as you say. And that is amazing about the operational cost of the Tornado. What a difference!

loupiot (3909) 2005-03-11 7:16

Bonjour Philippe,
Superbe prise de vue et excellent cadrage! Tu as réalisé de superbes clichés durant ce meeting aérien, bravo!

Lakhwant (58) 2005-03-15 1:10

One of the Best Photographs that I have Seen of Air shows all these Years.
The Nicely Captured Smoke reflects the amount of thrust that this Plane has been Provided with.Its near Verticle Climb is exilrating ,just to look at ... I wonder what it might feel flying One.

danielswalsh (13597) 2005-03-16 3:22

Well captured Philippe;

You really managed to freeze the action, and I like the addition of the smoke. With the words Teamwork on the wings- you could almost sell this as a "motivational poster" you often see in offices etc. Hahaha.

Cheers,
- Dan

Georges (11185) 2005-03-18 9:30

Encore un "Shout"precis pour ce type de scene et surtout pour la diagonale offerte de part l'avion et son fumigene.Je trouve que la texture de l'appreil vas bien avec l'ensemble de l'imeg cela reste dans le sobre.

Pour la note tu nous offre encore et toujours un joli cour sur l'histoire de l'aviation merci encore.
Bravo Philippe et a bientot.
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