# Thunder of Niagara (tons of pics) **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 12, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776 "2007-08-12T12:38:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/21 "2007-08-12T18:46:28Z")
[quote=“maybe\_memories,post:19,topic:33776"”] PS: any f-22 raptors there? [/quote] ROTFLMAO… the show’s WAY to small for those bad boys to show up; gotta go to a large show like Edwards, or Oceania to see them guys. Best we could’ve hoped for would be a fly-by and they didn’t do that either. I tried to get to the show, but gave up after circling the airport for an hour and not finding any place to park where I didn’t have to walk 2-3 miles to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Nytmair](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nytmair/32/7604_2.png) [@Nytmair](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nytmair)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/22 "2007-08-12T19:04:05Z")
very nice! what kind of camera do you have… i need a new one bad ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nytmair](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nytmair/32/7604_2.png) [@Nytmair](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nytmair)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/23 "2007-08-12T19:07:58Z")
Here’s my take on the airshow today… It made me realize how much I want a new camera haha Let me know whatcha thinks ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0701.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0701.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0702.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0702.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0703.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0703.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0704.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0704.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0705.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0705.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0706.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0706.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0707.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0707.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0708.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0708.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0709.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0709.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0710.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0710.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0711.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0711.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0712.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0712.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0713.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0713.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0714.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0714.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0715.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0715.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0716.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0716.jpg) ![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0717.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/Nytmair/ransomera/airshow0717.jpg) It was fun today… I hadn’t been to an airshow since I was probably 12 with my cousin and my uncle, so this brought me back ten years. I’m so beat from the sun, but it was definitely a cool thing to go out and see. ---
**Author:** ![Zong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zong/32/7580_2.png) [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/24 "2007-08-12T19:09:12Z")
fucking awesome ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/25 "2007-08-12T19:10:45Z")
Great pics… We were watching it from the Summit Mall Mustang show yesterday. Looked like a great show. ---
**Author:** ![maybe\_memories](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maybe_memories/32/5053_2.png) [@maybe\_memories](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maybe_memories)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/26 "2007-08-12T19:21:16Z")
I thought they might have done a flyby. I went to a smaller airshow like 4 years ago in niagara falls and they had a b-2 stealth bomber flyby. [quote=“97FormulaWS-6,post:21,topic:33776"”] ROTFLMAO… the show’s WAY to small for those bad boys to show up; gotta go to a large show like Edwards, or Oceania to see them guys. Best we could’ve hoped for would be a fly-by and they didn’t do that either. I tried to get to the show, but gave up after circling the airport for an hour and not finding any place to park where I didn’t have to walk 2-3 miles to get in. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![97Ranger](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97ranger/32/7342_2.png) [@97Ranger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97Ranger)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/27 "2007-08-12T19:26:39Z")
same airshow… last time they had it here they had the flyby ---
**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/28 "2007-08-12T20:08:23Z")
:tup: thanks for the comments. The airshow was a great time, minus the death march back to the car. I got dizzy and my vision blured, it was kinda cool… Marcus: Nikon D50, 300mm lens ---
**Author:** ![87FOXGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ecd19e/32.png) [@87FOXGT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/87FOXGT)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/29 "2007-08-12T20:11:40Z")
Nice pics, I think Lafengas paid a bunch o cash to go for a ride in an f16, or so i hear :gotme: that would be wicked ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/30 "2007-08-13T00:58:31Z")
[quote=“vq30de,post:28,topic:33776"”] :tup: thanks for the comments. The airshow was a great time, minus the death march back to the car. I got dizzy and my vision blured, it was kinda cool… Marcus: Nikon D50, 300mm lens [/quote] Nice…yeah I figured the lens was a powerful telefoto…VR assisted probably…Wicked pics…:tup: ---
**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/31 "2007-08-13T04:38:20Z")
nope. I think the lens is about 10-12yrs old, so no VR ---
**Author:** ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/32 "2007-08-13T06:16:55Z")
AWESOME pics, guys thanks! :gracias: Didn’t get a chance to go this year (I’m an airshow junkie) but I AM doing the Wright Patterson AFB jobber this year. That F-18 rolled HARD off the deck in that one shot, shit… ---
**Author:** ![audios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@audios](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/audios)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/33 "2007-08-13T06:48:02Z")
i realized going to this that i really picked the wrong career to get into. i wanted so bad to be a pilot when i was a kid. also, you dont realize when you are a kid the physics involved in what they get these planes to do. last time i went to this show was when i was a kid, and i can say i appreciate it 100x more. watching the f-16’s resulted in me having 20 solid minutes of goosebumps. nothing but goosebumps. ---
**Author:** ![jrod0187](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jrod0187](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jrod0187)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/34 "2007-08-13T06:58:51Z")
[quote=“maybe\_memories,post:26,topic:33776"”] I thought they might have done a flyby. I went to a smaller airshow like 4 years ago in niagara falls and they had a b-2 stealth bomber flyby. [/quote] Yea I remember that. I live 2 seconds from the airshow. I saw everything fly by over my house, very exciting and loud. I was using binoculars and also found my neighbor 2 houses down smoking a bong by accident while looking at the B-17 through them… haha The F-15 in that pic is from my duty station when I was in the AF. Great show! Awesome pics! 👏 ---
**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/35 "2007-08-13T13:46:35Z")
[quote=“audios,post:33,topic:33776"”] i wanted so bad to be a pilot when i was a kid. also, you dont realize when you are a kid the physics involved in what they get these planes to do. last time i went to this show was when i was a kid, and i can say i appreciate it 100x more. watching the f-16’s resulted in me having 20 solid minutes of goosebumps. nothing but goosebumps. [/quote] I have thought about this too. While it would be glorious to be a fighter pilot, it truly is your life. It seems that in order to do this, you would have to sacrifice a normal life… Maybe its worth it to some… ---
**Author:** ![layzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/layzie/32/7599_2.png) [@layzie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/layzie)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/36 "2007-08-13T14:41:07Z")
metro and penguin? wtf happened to the cool call signs. iceman? mavrick? goose? viper? jester? ---
**Author:** ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/37 "2007-08-13T15:05:34Z")
How is “Goose” any cooler than “Penguin” ? :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/38 "2007-08-13T15:07:50Z")
![http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=MattDay/topgunmodel.jpg](http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=MattDay/topgunmodel.jpg) \> penguin ---
**Author:** ![Smaefer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Smaefer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Smaefer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/39 "2007-08-14T22:00:25Z")
I had to work both 12 hour shifts saturday and sunday at that show at the gate. I stood in that blazing heat with my M-4 and full tact vest directing people on to the base. Only to have assholes bitch at me about how bad traffic is and how ridicules the walk is. I can’t believe how rude a disrespectful people where to us. I really want to but stroke the lady in the head who told me to screw off when she bitched at me about the walk only because I said how can you complain when it’s free? But there was a good bunch of people who had nothing but nice things to say to us. I’m just still irked at how many asshole where there. End of my rant.🎻 ---
**Author:** ![vq30de](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9dc877/32.png) [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776/40 "2007-08-15T04:22:43Z")
[quote=“Smaefer,post:39,topic:33776"”] snip… [/quote] That was exactly my logic. The walk fucking blew, but for free, I really cant complain. I felt so bad for you guys… [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thunder-of-niagara-tons-of-pics/33776.md?page=3)