Big Lockheed Pistons

Yes, and there were two of them there, one French and one Dutch.

Blimey! I’ve actually managed to attach a photo at last!!! I must go and have a lie down.

Ah, first IAT at Greenham Common July 1973….I remember it well!! 😉

Hi again all, any joy with the Neppie pics? 🙂

That would be great 🙂

Yes, one or two, I’ll scan them sometime and try and post them.

Think I’ve got copies of your slides Steve!

Yes, one or two, I’ll scan them sometime and try and post them.

Has anyone got any colour photos of the RAF Neptune MR Mk 1?

You’ll be ecstatic to know that HARS Neppies are alive and well ‘downunder’!

-566 has just been repainted.

Please visit [HTML]www.hars.org.au/index.html[/HTML]

G’day 😉

Pap Lima
Lockheed XP2V-1 Neptune c/n 26-1001/1002 BuA48238 w/o May 11, 1950 near Oyster, VA during flight test when engine fell off.
From
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/usafserials.html

A non-technical solution to sizing

Mark, how did you do that?

Well the famous ‘right click – save as’ to get it on-board and located.

Using XP functions (not necessarily available to all) :-

I then highlight it and hit the ‘send it as an email’ function.

Select yes at the prompt to reduce the file and dimension size to the smallest offered. This size conveniently happens to fit the forum screen just right.

When the email comes up with the reduced attachment, and it is always well under 100kb, I use ‘save attachments’ to locate it in a file I call ‘transit photos’. I dump the email.

Having remembered the file name I then select from the ‘transit photos’ the photo for attachment to the forum posting.

This simplistic approach works for me. I always scan at high resolution as a matter of principal. This way the file and dimension down sizing for the email function always gives me a good picture quality at around 30kb.

This method works for any dimension of image at file size from ‘x’mb down to 100kb +.

For those with a commercial bent – the image quality is fine for the screen but the file size is insufficient to download and produce a print of publishing quality – so you are not giving away the ‘family silver’.

Mark

PS You will note that your Neptune image is 97kb whilst my adjustment of your image is just 20kb. For the quality – judge for yourself.

Mark, how did you do that?

May 17, 1945, first flight of Lockheed XP2V-1 Neptune 1st of 2 prototypes, BuNo 48237 with 2 x 2 300 hp Wright R-3350-8 Cyclone air-cooled radial piston engines driving 4-blade Hamilton Standard Hydromatic constant-speed propellers
Designer: Mac V. F. Short
Please let me know if you think my database information is wrong! I would also like to know who was on board for this first flight, and what eventually happened to the aircraft, which was presumably scrapped in the end, if so, when?

Size matters.

Congrats Steve.

Mark

Hi Steve

the second Connie (which the FAA wouldn’t certify for carrying passengers) is in AFAIK also with this Swiss organisation and might be use as spares ship for their flyer. It is planned to keep the Super Connie “Star of Switzerland” operating for 10 years….

Cheers
Martin

Blimey! I’ve actually managed to attach a photo at last!!! I must go and have a lie down.