This week-end I attended the final of the FIA World Rallycross Championship held at Killarney race track in Cape Town. As my friend is interested in the automotive industry, he appreciates the subtleties of torque, RPM, turbo overflow and horsepower (despite the obvious absence of horses), much better than I do. But it appears that racing is popular with a broad spectrum of people. Behind me Schalk Burger Sr, wine farmer and Springbok rugby player of yesteryear was sitting and just behind him Hennie Bosman, a South African Karate guru. After repeated requests I capitulated and gave them my autograph…
Back to the racing – I can tell you that the RX class cars accelerate from 0 to 100km in 1.9 seconds and that is impressive in anybody’s book. They actually accelerates faster than Formula 1 cars. Now at this point some of you may be thinking how you can diplomatically inform me that I am displaying photos of aeroplanes and not cars with horses… Now to prevent such an unfortunate occurrence: I am aware of this. The aerobatic display team of the South African Air Force, the Silver Falcons gave an air show. I was fortunate to speak to the leader of the team Major Mark Gentles . I learned that this is not the team members full time job – a temporary activity – as all of them are instructors or pilots in the Air Force.

I was fortunate that with the help of the pilots and the camera lens, they came close enough to take this clear picture

One section of the sky had this beautiful zebra like pattern

The temporary lines produced in the air by the these planes were duplicated in the sky in a way humans cannot replicate it

The start of one of the many manouvers

A team like this does have a big turn around of members, as these are top sought after pilots. Fortunately even during displays applications are made to become members!
I am including this photo to verify that I was actually at a race. Sometimes I am a bit cynical when it comes to advertising. But here I was disproved – Red Bull does give you wings! I am unsure if these racers are actually qualified to fly, be it temporary or not.
In response to WordPress Weekly Photo challenge: temporary
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Cor. 4:18
Lief die foto’s!
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Dankie dit gee my ‘n lekker vurige gevoel om dit af te neem
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Fabulous photos, Abrie! I sometimes try to capture the flying planes… like when we, the Lions, lost the finals this year. Such a fail — both my mobile phone photography and the Lions. Sigh! Haha. I love the pic of the car. You obviously have a brilliant camera and you’re not really a gifted photographer. Haha! Kidding. I get those autograph requests, too. Lol!
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Thanks Anne (I think) – do I detect a slight note of jealousy😁😁. No I would admit a camera helps. Love you comparison with lions. Good to hear from you
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Hahaha. Yes, of course I’m jealous. 😃 We shall leave rugby for now. I can be quite passionate about the lions but I can detach from the whole rugby scene especially now. 😅🤣😂 I was just writing… Still writing.
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Sulke cool foto’s Abrie!
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Dankie Net Ek die Silwer Valke was ‘n verassing maar daar het klomp ander dinge ook gebeur. Gaan nog blog daaroor.
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Dat die wolke nou so mooi saamgespeel het!!!….. en die kar 🙂
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Die karre het keer op keer saam gespeel. Ek ja die lug was pragtig
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Ek is mal oor vliegtuie…het grootgeword naby Waterklooflugmagbasis en my altyd verlustig in die vegvliegtuie se maneuvers bokant ons huis. Dankie vir pragtige foto’s, Abrie.
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Dankie Dina dit moes amazing gewees het. Behalwe nou brandweerman was een van my kinderdrome ook om vegvlieënier te wees danksy TV reeks Mirage
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Briljante fotos Abrie
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Baie dankie Hester. Terloops my posts wys steeds nie in die reader wanneer ek daarna kyk nie maar dit is duidellik dat ander dit kan sien
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Hoe kyk jy vir jou eie posts in die reader? Het jy jou eie blog ge-follow of het jy ‘n tweede blog wat jy gebruik?
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My eie blog gevolg. Dit gebeur nou dat ek dit skeduleer
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Dalk het ek myself unfollow!
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Kyk. Indien nie, is dit dalk ‘n goeie idee om te unfollow en dan weer te follow.
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I am mostly a slow biker.
But I like your pictures.
Kind regards,
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Slow biker but fast thinker. Thanks Rob
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Wow, amazing captures!! Really cool. 🙂
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Thanks Amy really enjoyed taking it
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Holy smoke (get it?!) those photos are really amazing!! Have tried to shoot the blue angels, which were magnificent, but got nothing like this. Excellent Abrie!
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😀 that is the best kind of smoke. Thank you Tina it was quite an experience. The shot of the plane diving towards the zebra sky (but actually flying towards it) is my favourite but I also like the close up . In your defence( get it) the blue angels operate at a much higher speed and therefore more difficult to capture
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Pragtige fotos Abrie, en die voel vlieg saam.
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FDankie Danie Ja ek dink dit is ‘n duif wat ek eers gesien het toe ek na my fotos kyk op die rekenaar.
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Watching an air show is always fun. And you captured some excellent photos of the Silver Falcons. And then maybe the racing wasn’t that fun, but we all like different things, don’t we.
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Hi Otto thank you very much. Yes I certainly enjoyed taking these photos (nearly broke my neck following the planes☺). I am still do s blog about the racing (cars rolling etc) but enjoyed the planes the most
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Ill bet the pilots would love copies of the photos. Very nice and the Red Bull spot on the topic! Nice Abrie. Donna
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Thanks Donna had nice chat with team leader and new recruits. Although the new recruits aren’t part . And they did ask to mail it when I told them I took photos.
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I loved the shots of the plane exhausted against the clouds…very interesting.
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Hi. Yes the clouds were very kind in having that zebra formation. This remains my favourite photo shoot and photos
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