Sunday R.C. Fly-in

[starriderrick]

Just a bunch of guys havin' fun. R.C. scale aircraft.
Thes planes are very hard to capture .They are fast, small.
All photos shot with 50mm.

Bay Area R.C. modeler's. More action shots in my gallery. Enjoy
Rick

[Speed]

Small is relative! Compared to the real thing, they are tiny. But when you have a R.C. aircraft with wingspans of six feet or more...small becomes a very relative term.

As photography targets, they are very small and very fast. You did a great job capturing these! I've shot enough of the real thing at airshows to know that shooting something that small is NOT EASY!

[drg]

Indeed these little guys can be a challenge to shoot.
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The first one with the hills is my pick of the four! The photo looks at first as if it is 'real' coming in for a landing on a grassy strip in the back yard. If the plane had been a little more in focus, and the background slightly out-of-focus you might just have a poster.
Still that is a good shot and indeed a good 'tracking' one too.

The shutter looks like it might just be about right to keep the props blurred and still offset you motion with the camera.

I get a chuckle out of the expressions that are on some of the figures that these modelers choose.

Got any more?

[Tyson L. Sparks]

I use my RC plane to shoot aerial photography. I fly a slow stick with a pentax S40 on it.

[SmartWombat]

I use my RC plane to shoot aerial photography. I fly a slow stick

Yes, I bought a Junior 60 and a diesel engine just for that.
Has a carrying capacity of about 8 ounces.
Never got round to finishing building it though, I got married instead !

That field looks really awkward to fly from.
Houses and fences really close, probably wouldn't be allowed here.

I've still got my wings somewhere - we had to qualify to fly at our club.
Take off into wind, two circuits, land, take off cross-wind, two circuits and the examiner cuts the throttle so you have to dead-stick at a random point in the circuit.
OK to be fair it's usually on the downwind leg

Great fun, but I don't think I'll go back to it.