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Offline ncpilot

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P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« on: May 07, 2009, 02:30:30 PM »
In a few minutes, I'll be driving to the airport to tour (and hopefully take many pictures of) one of the Orion's...

Slightly off topic, but better here than in the photography section I think...

Since it's big public event, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to take pics... which I'll post later tonight...

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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2009, 05:36:01 PM »
A P-3 made a few passes across my back 40 a few weeks ago. It was right exciting.



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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2009, 11:03:53 PM »
I'd hate to see one pass by my back yard in order to drop fire retardant...

http://home.earthlink.net/~marcpilot7/P3_Orion/

Pics have been down-rezzed quite a bit... if anyone wants to see a higher-res image, let me know...

They were moving people through the plane fairly fast, maybe 3-5 minutes to go back to front and back out...
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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 11:20:53 PM »

Cool pics!

Did you get to meet any of the pilots or other crew?

Kevin...
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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 12:20:21 AM »
This is from a fire captain on the line today at the Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara, CA. More in my SLOweather blog...

Vignetting caused by shooting a cell phone camera through binocs...

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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2009, 06:43:38 AM »
cool pix.

Learned something, NOAA ... part of Dept of Commerce?

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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2009, 09:11:01 AM »
Quote from: WeatherBeacon on May 07, 2009, 11:20:53 PM

Cool pics!

Did you get to meet any of the pilots or other crew?

Kevin...

They were all available to "meet and greet", but spread out among various areas. One of the pilots was in the cockpit to answer questions, but we were rushed through.

From a local news story I saw that the director of NHC was also there (Bill Read)...
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Re: P-3 Orion Hurricane Hunter tour
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2009, 09:12:07 AM »
Quote from: SLOweather on May 08, 2009, 12:20:21 AM
This is from a fire captain on the line today at the Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara, CA. More in my SLOweather blog...

Vignetting caused by shooting a cell phone camera through binocs...


Pretty impressive pic for a cellphone through binocs...
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