A couple of years ago now I bought the nice Canon 55 - 250mm all singing, all-dancing zoom lens for my toy specifically to take pictures of aeroplanes.
Yesterday afternoon I finally managed to take some piccies of aeroplanes!
Ladies, gentlemen...and Painless; I present Sidmouth Airshow and Super-spreader event, 2021
It's a traditional British format; cram as many people as possible onto an uncomfortable beach on a rising tide and put in an extensive p.a. system manned by someone in love with the sound of their own voice.
First up was a display by the Royal Navy's Wildcat. Great! Of course being essentially a stupid person, I read this as being one of these
Whereas it turned out to be one of these, ho hum...
It did it's thing and was swiftly followed by some sort of Pitts special which in my opinion put on a tremendous show
This thing is capable of some astonishing prop-hanging