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Published: 2013-01-24 23:30:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 601; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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Description A very slow, leisurely pass by an F86 Sabre (Hawk 1) done up in the Golden Hawks demo team colors. Notice the cockpit? Its wide open! The pilot was able to hear our applause!

Photo taken at the Hamilton 2012 Air Show on June 16th 2012.

Artwork © Rachel Hardy
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Comments: 10

Nikki-vdp [2013-01-26 12:09:38 +0000 UTC]

Very nice and clean pic and the open cockpit is indeed, well, interesting

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8TwilightAngel8 In reply to Nikki-vdp [2013-01-26 13:49:12 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! The first time i saw that i thought there was a problem. I didn't know it was possible for sabres to do that during flight.

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Nikki-vdp In reply to 8TwilightAngel8 [2013-01-26 15:10:08 +0000 UTC]

I wasn't aware of that either.

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roamingtigress [2013-01-24 23:53:35 +0000 UTC]

What a great, crisp capture! I almost got a capture of this but it went behind a tree

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8TwilightAngel8 In reply to roamingtigress [2013-01-25 00:19:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!
Gosh that is annoying. I don't like it when they do that at all

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roamingtigress In reply to 8TwilightAngel8 [2013-01-25 03:19:50 +0000 UTC]

It is You are very welcome!

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Daniel-Wales-Images [2013-01-24 23:40:28 +0000 UTC]

Very nice shot indeed, nice and sharp!

We have a Hawker Hunter display over here that does the same, though not on a slow pass. He's usually shifting when he does it. [link]

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8TwilightAngel8 In reply to Daniel-Wales-Images [2013-01-25 00:24:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I was surprised by the sharpness. The rest of my sabre photos (besides when its taxiing) had a noticeable blur on them or he was very high for his passes.

I have always wanted to see the Hunter. I see photos of it all over the place and it really is a unique looking aircraft. Great capture btw

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Daniel-Wales-Images In reply to 8TwilightAngel8 [2013-01-25 00:55:56 +0000 UTC]

To me the Hunter and Sabre have to me the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, and that comes from somebody who has always preferred piston aircraft to jets. These early classic jets retained the beautiful lines of the piston era, yet have no propeller or big engine up front to interrupt them. With the engine inside the aircraft, the shapes just became so perfect.

I was lucky enough last year to see eight Hawker Hunters in the air together as it was the 60th anniversary of the Hunters first flight last year. Sadly my shot of all eight on the Saturday was not brilliant, but I do have this shot of seven which flew the day after. One of the Hunters developed a technical issue and could not fly in the formation so seven flew instead. Still a great formation though. [link]

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8TwilightAngel8 In reply to Daniel-Wales-Images [2013-01-25 01:11:28 +0000 UTC]

I love their shapes too Its much more unique and beautiful to look at than most modern day military jets. They are interesting in their own right, but still, the classics will never be beat in looks.

Impressive formation^^ I love the variety of the paint schemes and I like the angle. There's always that 1 straggler in the formation

At the show the sabre had a formation with a spitfire, corsair, hurricane and mustang. I'm still looking for one shot that is focused well enough to put up. It was an amazing sight! When it had is first demo year in 2009 it did a formation with the snowbirds, and then a tutor (in the same paint scheme) and this F-18 (horrible photo): [link] I miss that formation. It was only a 1 year thing. The F-18 went to a museum in Ottawa once the season was over.

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