FAIREY Firefly (N518WB)

A rare AND historic aircraft so I was pretty dang excited to see this. I took plenty of shots of it here as the daytime was descending into dusk and then I was back a few hours later to snap it in nighttime darkness, then in dawn light as the sun was coming up, and still later once the sun was up and shining fully on it. A gorgeous aircraft. (AND ... there was a Spitfire there, too.)

Only the (possible) OV-10 tail sticking up over the left wingtip gives away the fact that this is not a history pic. Nice shot Gary :) 5*

TY, Dave. And good eye -- that is a Bronco back there. I gave some thought to using PS to remove it but I intensely dislike using PS to make major "alterations" to the scene that was in the camera's lens and was recorded when the shutter opened. IMO, making such a major alteration is, in effect, creating a fake foto. I have no qualms about removing a piece of trash paper on the apron or etc since doing so is not a major change to the original scene. But doing stuff like is often seen here in FA - using PS to insert fake lightning bolts or rainbows or using that PS feature that creates fake water puddle reflections OR cropping out an object from one pic and pasting it on or near the moon or a mountain, etc., etc., is too much since it creates a fake scene that the camera's lens never saw. And taking out that Bronco's butt would be pretty much the same thing so I left it. (Wave)

Interesting write-up here - http://www.globalaviationresource.com/reports/2011/capteddie.php

I am glad to see this aircraft is still flying. It appears to be the same one that I saw at the Reno Air Races in September of 2010 at the Historic Aircraft Entries area. The listing for the aircraft was WB 518 and had previously been from Australia.

Really nice shot, Gary! And I'm with you regarding the use of PS.

Great pic Gary - keep it original and you get a proper result. I've seen some awful results on FA. If you can't take a photo that suits you - PRACTICE. My historic version of PS doesn't have that 'replacement' feature and I don't care. I use it, as Gary says of his, to fix annoyances or boost a bit here and there. As with Gary, what you see in my pics is what I took. Off the soapbox now:)

If this aircraft was built in 1950 and painted in an "authentic" Korean war colour scheme why does it have 1944 D-Day "invasion stripes"? https://www.aircraft.com/aircraft/197570413/n518wb-1950-fairey-firefly-as-dot-5