Spitfire Survivors

Lovely pic Mark 🙂

Very nice, that is my view at work most days, right across to Aberthaw

My sincere commiserations……. :p

Its a cracking photo.

Two – Nil. 🙂

Ah I apologise, now seeing the full shot I see it’s untouched lol

Very nice, that is my view at work most days, right across to Aberthaw, no Spits to look at anymore though:(

Is that taken at St Athan? Angles and power station look just so!

St Athan, November 1997.

Mark

Is that taken at St Athan? Angles and power station look just so!

The one that struck me was Paul Day taking off in MK356 & the undercart has been removed.

Still an amazing book & can’t wait 4 volume 2, hoping for lots of G-FIRE pix

Undercarriage removed. 😮

My understanding is that this shot was taken from the tower or similar. It is probably 30/40 ft above the ground. I have cropped this shot close and you now cannot see the runway. That is a taxi way in the distance foreshortened by telephoto effect. 🙂

Yes I would remove the odd spurious human legs of spectators dangling under a fuselage…but certainly not removing parts of the aircraft for dramatic effect. 🙂

Here is the full frame.

Mark

I still havn’t read every page in Vol1 yet!!
I have looked at all the pictures however!

The one that struck me was Paul Day taking off in MK356 & the undercart has been removed.

Still an amazing book & can’t wait 4 volume 2, hoping for lots of G-FIRE pix

Thanks Mark,

Could it be that the pic I meant was published in a survivors list in flypast with the wrong caption at the time. IIRC that issue had a lot of errors in it.

Cees

The MH434 shot with the ground crew, the trolly acc and second crew man on starboard wing was on the front page of the Flypast supplement. My copy is not to hand but it has always been Hornchurch to me.

(although can still vaguely be seen). How vague is…not there? 🙂

Mark

My copy is sitting on the coffee table. They got my name right & that’s all that matters 🙂

Thanks Mark,

Could it be that the pic I meant was published in a survivors list in flypast with the wrong caption at the time. IIRC that issue had a lot of errors in it.

Cees

At least the one of MH434 at Harrowbeer, I thought a pilot was walking round the wingtip, but he has vanished now (although can still vaguely be seen)

Cees

Harrowbeer? Hornchurch March 1944. If that is the one you mean.

I have five original negatives of MH434 from Bill Burge, a 222 Sq pilot.

One has a ground crew rounding the wingtip that I have published previously. One does not. 🙂

Photoshop/PSP. To a lesser or greater degree every shot will have had some work done on it. The starting point for some of the shots was dire.

Mark

At least the one of MH434 at Harrowbeer, I thought a pilot was walking round the wingtip, but he has vanished now (although can still vaguely be seen)

Cees