Freestyle at TAS
Alan Wolcott
awol-cott@comcast.net
Alan Wolcott (Aurora, Colorado; email: awol-cott@comcast.net) took this photo of Nicholas Detry’s first-round Freestyle flight on Saturday, October 17, 2015, at the Tucson Aerobatic Shootout (TAS). The international competition was held October 14-18, 2015, in Tucson, Arizona, at the Tucson International Modelplex Park Association club field.
Alan wrote:
“I had always wanted to go to one of these major competitions I had read about, and found the TAS was scheduled [at] the same time I would be in Scottsdale, Arizona, visiting my mother for a week. So, I borrowed her car and drove two hours to see this.
“Weather was quite angry looking and the early rounds of [the] Unknown competition had to deal with crosswinds of 10 to 20 mph. This really demonstrated the skill of these pilots to compensate for the winds, as well as the routine! Luckily, the winds slowed and the sun came out for a moment during the Freestyle competition.”
Alan used his fairly new Canon PowerShot SX50 HS camera to take pictures, and “was really impressed with its ability to capture these photos.” The image properties of the photo of Nicholas’ aircraft included an f-stop of f/6.5 at ¹⁄₁₂₅₀ second, with an ISO of 200.
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