Random Shot Of The Day - Part 2

[AAFO_WSagar]

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Just realized after it took me nearly 20 minutes to figure out how to size and brand the photo in order to upload it... I learned Photoshop and later did pretty well with CS2 (what I used today) I have just about forgotten EVERYTHING that I know regarding making and maintaining a website!!!

I can't even do the simplest tasks in Photoshop! Well, obviously, I can but, it used to be soooooo easy, second nature and I had batch files that would do a whole folder (branding and such) with my settings.... I guess I just remembered that, so maybe with practice???????

I have a lot of early demntia symptoms... mostly, memory loss! SUCKS!

[AAFO_WSagar]

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One of the things I'm most thankful for is the access that being associated with AAFO.COM has given me over the years. I just happened on a folder of photos that I believe I took specifically to present to Air and Space Smithsonian from the shooting of Thunder over Reno (the movie)

I have one that is truly a treasure to me.. It's of Lyle Shelton sitting in the airplane that he'd allowed someone else to fly (Ron Buccarelli) we asked him for a "pose" and, as always, Lyle was game! Guys like Lyle, Jimmy, Tiger... a bunch of guys really opened doors for me during the time that AAFO.COM was very active (meaning, I didn't hurt all the time and had energy to pursue the story!!)

I don't know if we'll ever see anyone with more balls than the guy in this photo! I can only imagine what it must have been like pushing Rare Bear so far beyond realistic limits, not to mention, around a bunch of other airplanes at 50' over the deck at the Reno National Championship Air Races and Air Show!!!!!

[wingman]

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Thank you. Reflections are cool, and that smooth Sport Class surface is great for this stuff.

[Desertdawg]

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Splendid shot!

X2 - the reflection is perfect.

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Clouds...

Splendid shot!

[wingman]

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Clouds...

[Desertdawg]

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2014 - Warbird pits.

[Desertdawg]

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2016 - Section 3 - Orange

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2009 - Sure miss the Fat Albert JATO take-off.

Maybe some day they will find a lost stash of JATO rockets

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That is a great scene and one I hope to repeat with the T-Birds in 2021.

[Desertdawg]

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2009 - Sure miss the Fat Albert JATO take-off.

Maybe some day they will find a lost stash of JATO rockets

[AAFO_WSagar]

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It was a Bell Modified P39 flown by Alvin"Tex" Johnson that won the 1946 Thompson Trophy @ the Cleveland National Air Races & I was there.

And that fact my friend, SIR! is what makes it feel very special that this website allows you to share your experiences with a generation that might not have been exposed to you, had I not started this site....

Bob, we gotta talk! You are a book or three!

PM me your phone number I just had a huge brain fart!

[Lockheed Bob]

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It was a Bell Modified P39 flown by Alvin"Tex" Johnson that won the 1946 Thompson Trophy @ the Cleveland National Air Races & I was there.

[Desertdawg]

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Love the doors with roll down windows.

[kennsmithf2g]

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Reno 09/10/19 Quals [URL="https://kennsmithf2g.smugmug.com/Airplanes/Reno-2019/Reno-2019-Biplane/2019-Reno-Biplane-76/i-KzQGVBK/A"]

[Desertdawg]

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Will miss Dennis and the team's Reno Air Race spirit.