Air Ministry, I must remember never to play cards with you as you always come up trumps… 😉

Many thanks

Stuart

Two things to consider here could the picture in the magazine have been enhanced from the pilots notes useing modern digital immaging methods.

Andrew, in my limited experience with manipulating images, i’ve found its far easier to simplify an image by losing detail than it would be to enhance one by adding something that isn’t there. So no I don’t think it has been enhanced.

Is your version of the picture from original or reproduction AP? I have a few copies of original pilot’s notes and the cockpit images are quite good quality

The top image is a photocopied image from an original Whirlwind AP that I got from Rolls-Royce Derby Heritage Trust a number of years ago.
I also have a copy of the ‘Crecy’ AP.

There is a certain amount of degradation between the two, as you would expect between a photocopy and a printed version, but not as much as there would be from an original photograph and a retouched one…

The chap who wrote the article with the cockpit photo is a Dr Alfred Price… 🙂

A quick Google showed he is quite the aviation writer, with a number of books to his name…

Would this not be a photo from the Pilot’s Notes?

Ah! I was wondering how long it would take for someone to notice that… :rolleyes:

Well spotted that man… 😉

JDK

Best suggestion I can make is ask if they can forward a letter to the feature’s author, and he/she may be able to advise where they got it.

Good, I shall do that, thank you JDK

It’s amazing to find out just how much work went into getting a photo of a cockpit into print.

Mind you I would have sacked the bloke who traced the original, his shoddy work has made my eyes bad trying to make out whats-what… :rolleyes:

That last bit was a joke, so don’t take offence… :diablo:

Thanks for the replies

Items 92 & 93 Flap & UC levers are’nt showing, the 2 switches center, below flying panel are missing in the original and Item 111 Automatic Recognition Device Control is absent…

Said and done Peter… 😉

The photo’s look the same at first glance, but are slightly different, must have been one of the photos not chosen for the AP…

Steve, Aeroplane…:(

Hmmm… Thanks Terry, I thought as much!

Shame, as I know that the manufacturer of the AC in question has’nt got them, or for that matter does’nt know who even took them?

I already have the AP, but hoped the original photo’s might be still around somewhere as they were of higher detail than the printed image in the AP… 🙁

Ah well, never mind I will have to search a little harder!

Thanks again…