Great Scoops From Flickr And LIFE Archive

Just fixed some busted LIFE links in this thread e.g. incl some ww2 colour
Polikarpov and Ju-52
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f0d04554160b8bad.html
CLARE at La Guardia 1940
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/64c028a70b50b424.html
PBY B-24 P-38s P-40s colour Aleutians
https://www.google.com/search?q=aleutians+kessel&q=source%3Alife&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch
Ferry Command (U.S.)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ferry+Command&q=source%3Alife&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch

Going back to the Wright Brothers photo. I had always assumed that Wilbur might have been holding the wingtip steady – as with a glider in the initial moments of an aerotow.

As said – there is so much in that photograph

The old links for the 27 Squadron Blenheims in Singapore 1941 in colour by Carl Mydans/LIFE/Google archive are broken…these work
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/4f118477e602e67d.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/1b275a8fb0711ad0.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/e17282bda705bfd3.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/2258854b1ecb44fb.html
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/82e01c74e3606de4.html

Ah yes,thanks, the Boeing…..did they see combat against the Japanese?

P-26 Peashooter.

What’s this handsome warbird?

In the Philippines December 1941 by Carl Mydans on LIFE
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/e4125c2f8a79d65e.html

Boston Public Library have some aviation photos on flickr from the 1920s/1930s

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/tags/aviation/

Brazilian Air Bases essay on LIFE

Last Italian mailplane lands Natal 1941
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/ac939b71d766c116.html
DC-2 ‘U.S.10’ and Pan Am DC-3s ready to cross Atlantic,, Natal
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/b3e0776d58934e15.html
Pan Am Boeing 314 N18612 etc. at Natal seaplane jetty
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a96efea897601cd1.html

Grumman Goose at jetty
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/d10ad663f7a09ff0.html

DC-2s with differences
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/875359a838e378d0.html

Dmitri Kessel photos on Life

Polikarpov and Ju-52
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f0d04554160b8bad.html
CLARE at La Guardia 1940
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/64c028a70b50b424.html

PBY B-24 P-38s P-40s colour Aleutians
https://www.google.com/search?q=aleutians+kessel&q=source%3Alife&gws_rd=ssl&tbm=isch

Ferry Command (U.S.)
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/956812a119776273.html

New Zealand Airliner History

An excellent and comprehensive set on another forum thats doing the rounds

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=civil&action=print&thread=12612

Palouste starter unit.

Interesting piccie of the Palouste Starter unit. Our Royal Navy Palouste’s had a drop down exhaust panel ie. Sea Vixen, no doubt still in use ? We mounted ours ( 892 Sqdn. ) on carrier deck tugs, for multi starting of A/C on deck.

More flickr albums

Found this set of b&w 50s US Airliners (collection of Leo J Kohn) looking for a Pan Am DC-7B with the globe scheme(this is last page of 4)http://www.flickr.com/photos/50866030@N06/page8/

and as mentioned elsewhere on Key David Whitworth’s photos with the Tony Clarke collection(U.K. mainly 50s)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/

More flickr

Nice one, pagen01….I particularly like the photos of the departure of King George of Greece on a Lancastrian on Heathrow North in Stephen Greensted’s set

dehavillandflyer’s photos on flickr feature De Havillands fast and slow but also a rare set of aircraft in the Congo 1961…for example
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9190123@N03/page4/

and the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon have a few of Portela Airport ca.1943…a sample http://www.flickr.com/photos/biblarte/4647575772/

Some great pictures of British aircraft and well known pilots and engineers on this link, http://www.flickr.com/photos/7691137@N06/

Here is a great collection of vintage french built or registered aircraft (beside Anson, Lockheed, …)
scroll down to “Fichiers PDF pour imprimer”
http://chezpeps.free.fr/0/Jarrige/No-html/No02-Aeronefs-sur-l_Algerie.html

Aviation visitors and photos, Western Australia.interesting half camouflaged BOAC Liberator G-AGKT in there
http://www.aawa.org.au/Articles/AP-Movements/AirportMovements.html

and early RAF Liberators
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-air/20768-liberator-lb-30-mk-ii.html

Stumbled upon these interesting Flickr Photo Streams provided by bauple58… a nice way to spend an hour or two:

For example (and not for the squeamish)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/4852615903

Sets as follows

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157622565067690
2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157606356329635 (how I ended up there)
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157603350873097
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157594410849451
5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157594389205659
6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/38049473@N00/sets/72157594385671413

enjoy 🙂

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

I know this is not news to many, but if you ‘ctrl +’ or ‘ctrl – ‘ you can expand and contract the webpage on view (great for detailed viewing of photos).

The robot translations into English are always good for a giggle, but they save squinting at a dictionary

longshot………..

Magic !!! It works, and miracle of miracles a piece of IT that is relatively simple !!!

Thanks for the suggestion and help.

Planemike