Would NX611 be alowed to fly ?

Yep that caravan is definately an eyesore, if the Pantons are reading this then id be happy to camoflage it for them! 🙂

Thanks for the kind comments ashley. Will have a look for more to post

steve

Originally posted by mike currill
Love the period feel of the black & white photos compared to the colour ones we’re so used to

Yup, excellent period feel…..
Well, apart from the one with the Fordson or Fergy tractor towing her, which would have been a cracker except for the rather obvious white fibreglass house on wheels thing off to the right hand side……:mad:

Excellent pics Hatton, please do post more…as Lancman points out, the Lanc is a “night owl”, therefore night time pics of her are most fitting in my opinion 🙂

Thank you for the kind comments, all photographs from 35mm. Most in original format some converted although im trying to remember which 🙂

If you convert a photograph from colour straight to b/w then I think it is often worth making minor adjustments with the nd levels and contrast to get results.

Will post more when i have time 🙂

Lovely pictures! We’re so used to seeing a perfect, shiny PA474 on a sunny day, you forget that the Lancaster was a nocturnal beast…

and converted to B/W,

I tried a quick experiment of the same photo i took a while ago.

🙂 Lovely photos,were they taken on B/W film or digital and altered to B/W,cheers 🙂

Love the period feel of the black & white photos compared to the colour ones we’re so used to

this will be the last i think as i dont want to bore with too many 🙂 If anybody wants to see some more i will fish some out.

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Lovely photos, Hatton and thanks for posting them.

They remind me that the Lancaster has to be one of the most beautiful of all aeroplanes. Forget its purpose, just concentrate on its lines…function and grace from every angle.

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Plenty, any particular angle or view Derek? 🙂 Only a few i can put up here, i think i posted them before so dont want to bore people with the same pics, will try and fish out some different ones!

Lanc Pics

Hatton got any more of these Lanc Pics??? I feel an addition to my collection coming on…

Agree completely Lancman, lets face it if she was to become airworthy then she wouldnt be able to stay at East Kirkby and this would mean no more night taxi runs and no authentic bomber base museum. Without its star exhibit it would be a shadow of its former self.

Think ive posted this before but you can never get enough Lanc pictures 🙂 beats the recent glut of Spits and Mustangs 😉

Totally agree with you Lancman…

…doesn’t mean someone can’t ask anew!

I should imagine she’d get a ferry permit, maybe, to wherever she’d need to go to be stripped down to the nitty-gritty, be re-sparred, etc etc; then again, why not just play much safer and take her by road, eh?

I still think that while PA474 is up and running, she’s better off how and where she is; she should only fly if we suddenly, God-forbid, find ourselves lacking an airworthy Lanc in the UK. 😮