☭ Wings, Hammer and Sickle over Camarillo
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: Wings Over Camarillo 2025
📍 Location: KCMA, Camarillo Airport, CA, US
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig17
#lim5
#airshow
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#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#camarillo
#socal
#california
#poland
#ussr
#usa
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#avgeek
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#fujifilm
#aftrerburner

🚬 Close, but no cigar
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: Wings Over Camarillo 2025
📍 Location: KCMA, Camarillo Airport, CA, US
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#wingsovercamarillo
#camarillo
#wingsovercamarilloairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#ussr
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm
#panorama
#pano

🤯 Mind-blowing
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#pyrotechnics
#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#usaf
#usairforce
#beale
#bealeafb
#bealeairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#ussr
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
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#fujifilm
#fuji
#fujixseries

☄️ ☭ Rising star, hammer and sickle
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
💡 Fun fact: The two smoke pods are SCSG-5 model made by Sanders Smoke Technologies Inc.
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#usaf
#usairforce
#beale
#bealeafb
#bealeairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#ussr
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm
#aftrerburner

🔥 Thanks to Jason Somes and Wings Over Camarillo for hell of a show
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: Wings Over Camarillo 2025
📍 Location: KCMA, Camarillo Airport, CA, US
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#airshow
#wingsovercamarillo
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#camarillo
#socal
#california
#poland
#ussr
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm
#aftrerburner

🚀 Blink and you’ll miss it
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#usaf
#usairforce
#beale
#bealeafb
#bealeairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm

☄️ Bullet ride
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#usaf
#usairforce
#beale
#bealeafb
#bealeairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm
#aftrerburner

🔥 Afterburner fly-by
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, a licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5 engine, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes from High Alpha Air Shows
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
💡Fun fact: Small protruding part on top of the cockpit is a prismatic rear-view periscope
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
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#mig
#mig17
#lim5
#usaf
#usairforce
#beale
#bealeafb
#bealeairshow
#airshow
#aviationphotography
#airshowphotography
#california
#poland
#usa
#aviation
#avgeek
#militaryaviation
#fujifilm
#aftrerburner
#turnandburn
#pano
#panorama

🔥 It's hard to imagine that we live in a world where you can see the iconic flicker of the MiG-17 afterburner over a "secret" Air Force Base
🛩️ Aircraft: 🇵🇱 PZL-Mielec Lim-5, licensed version of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F, single-seat high-subsonic fighter aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 1x 🇵🇱 Lis-5 engine, a licensed version of Klimov VK-1F afterburning centrifugal-flow turbojet engine
🗂️ S/N: 1C1529, 1529
🫆 Tail number: 🇺🇸 N117BR/NX117BR
👨‍✈️ Piloted by: Jason Somes
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
💡Fun fact: Klimov VK-1F itself was a reverse engineered version of Rolls-Roys Nene jet engine, after Rolls-Royce sold some to USSR and also trained the engineers at Rolls-Royce factory in UK
📷 Fujifilm X-H2
🔭 Fujinon XF500mmF5.6
🖼️ Prints available, link in bio 🔗
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