SZG 12/1/08

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Some from a rather cloudy Salzburg last Saturday.....
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Excellent photos of the annual Russian invasion.

I'm there in 3 weeks time, let's hope with plenty of snow!

Jon

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Superb photos! I wsih we get more Ruski aircraft in the UK!

Nice catch with the last shot too! :)

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Something so very different ..good to see

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When was the D.C.6 taken? I was there all day Saturday and Sunday and it was in the Red Bull maintenance hangar.

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Cestrian

The DC6 was Friday afternoon.......suppose my heading's a tad misleading!
The B25 also flew twice that day

Barry

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Great pics Barry

Bleh, where's all the snow? I'm flying into SZG next Saturday and I'll be taking my camera with me, hoping for some great views from the flightdeck, I'll post them when I get back

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Nice one Barry, I keep hearing and seeing the Salzburg is aviation phot heaven, some great Russian types flying in and out. I see from one of your shots there are a lot of photographers (Photo 9). Is that on the airport or just outside the fence? I guess you would need to be there very early to get a good spot.

Si

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Nice one Barry, I keep hearing and seeing the Salzburg is aviation phot heaven, some great Russian types flying in and out. I see from one of your shots there are a lot of photographers (Photo 9). Is that on the airport or just outside the fence? I guess you would need to be there very early to get a good spot.

Si

The people in that photo are outside the fence at a spot on the corner where things leave the apron to taxi up to 34. All along the fence there are plenty of places so no need to be there at sparrow's to get a place. The terrace is a different story ... very busy from early on with lots of tripods set up for night shots.

Here's a part of the perimeter. See, not to crammed. The bunch of folk in the photo #9 are on another small mound behind the mound you see in my pic here. Only busier there because it clears the fence ... a million places available to those with steps.
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And to show how persevering folk were .... here's a shot of the terrace, taken from the GAT at 16:20 when the rain was coming down. Excuse the pic quality but it was a long range one with the light giving f/3.2 at a fortnight (well.... 25th of a second).
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Great shots there like the Red Bull DC-6 & and the 1st three shots.

James

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Many thanks for all the responses and for those who have provided others with additional info.For the record there is only ever 2 major days.......arrivals around 2/3 Jan and departures about 10 days later.........usually the Saturday but was a Wednesday in 2006!Not improved this year by about 14 of the Saturday deps going from Linz due to SZG charges (incl every YK42 that day!)

Barry