For the benefit of the uneducated – WTF is “B-25 Mitchell’s fly in IMC”? :confused:
It was a tv programme anbout how he brought the bunch of B25s across the Atlantic for the filming.
And if I remember corrrectly, the Aztec crash had certain unexplained aspects to it like many of his other adventures. I see to remember the route in particular had many question marks as to what exactly he was doing…
QTE:
All professional photographers are aware that certain buildings and trademarks e.g. Silver Lady on Rolls Royce are subject to permission being obtained from owners before the photos can be used .
UNQTE:Hmmm. Bit of a myth, really. This is an area where lawyers make money. A picture of a reflection of the RR ‘Spirit of Soft P0rn’* is your copyright, unless you sell it as a RR product. But don’t try this in court – the big companies can buy better lawyers, so effectively dictate the law.
No, it’s not an urban myth that buildings have copyright. s4(1)b of the Copyright, Designs And Patents Act 1988 provides that an artistic work includes a work of architecture being a building or a model for a building and that a “building” includes any fixed structure, and a part of a building or fixed structure. However, it is held that there must be an element of artistic merit involved in the building.
Anyone know what the serial of the target drone at FAST is?
ROTFLMAO
In my dog-eared note book for 5th July 1971 I have the following WZ662 and XK406 Auster AOP9 outside at Towgoods (sic) Caravans.
I’ve a note saying that I saw WZ662 outside Toogoods Caravan Sales A38 on 1st June 1972. I’m pretty sure that there was second one but my log book is in the attic somewhere (see there is a point to number collectors) and the kids are asleep. My recollection is that it was somewhere in the Congresbury general area.
Just plugged Toogoods Caravan Bristol into Google and then did a search on the post code. This suggests a location for a company called Toogoods Worldwide Transport just off the A38 north of Lulsgate (BS409YF) which ties in with my general recollection, although I do remember the aircraft being displayed by the side of a main road. The suggestion that the second aircraft was XK406 rather than XR267 also ties in with my memory from 1972/73.
I still haven’t located my spotting notes from that period but I will be attacking the attic tonight.
I’ve a note saying that I saw WZ662 outside Toogoods Caravan Sales A38 on 1st June 1972. I’m pretty sure that there was second one but my log book is in the attic somewhere (see there is a point to number collectors) and the kids are asleep. My recollection is that it was somewhere in the Congresbury general area.
Is anyone also aware of what happened to the rest of the Jindiviks at Llanbedr – I had heard they were to be offered for disposal but have not seen anything come up.
I think they all have gone already, as I saw a report last year of a number of them at Stafford prior to disposal to a scrappy.
Have Everett’s sold XX475? The only one on their site is XX499.
Of course we all know that a number of U-2s have been operated off carriers, don’t we?
Wasn’t 19MU at St Athan? Or is that too obvious?
I remember passing Toogoods Caravans on my holidays back in the early 70s and my recollection is that there were actually two Austers outside.
The Pan Ams were at LHR, they used to have a number of B727s based in Europe, as did TWA. When Pan Am was taken over by United the B727s were repainted and rotated with a number of different ones appearing on routes out of the UK.
It was 1997 at Tushino and it was only one of them.
The Air Canada B744s went straight to storage at MHV