So there were original ‘Lightweight E-Type’ Jaguars?

I must have got the wrong end of the stick from the part of the programme that I saw; how close are these new-build ‘Lightweights’ then to the originals?

Well it’s a fair point: since these cars were often different in specification (esp the Lindner/Nocker car and the other low-drag car), they’re continuing ‘in the spirit of’. I see no problem with them and will consider them as true Jaguars in the same way as I’d 100% consider TWR-built XJR’s to be 100% Jaguar.

There was a lot of BS spoken in the programme: Goodwood Revival already allows recreations of cars which are not necessarily rare (at least one of the D-Types at last year’s Revival for instance). So I didn’t understand the relevance of remarks that the Lightweights wouldn’t be allowed.

And they are produced in the same way as the Sanction II DB4 GT Zagatos, which don’t seem to attract the same amount of sniffy-ness.

But maybe the reason for all this was the programme’s insistence on attaching a monetary value to the whole operation.

The day will soon come when owners of original GTO’s, DB4 Zagatos and E-Type Lightweights don’t want to risk racing them, and then these lesser continuation cars will be our only chance to see examples actually RACING.

But Sony cameras do it oh so well! 😀

It’s one of those things that look nice the first time, then gradually become more and more annoying. There are a few magazines that love to use the effect (car mags usually).

And i’m sure there will be those who will go on about all the different filters and developing masks that were used in wet film processing, but I’d equally say that many of those effects were annoying too!

So do Sony cameras have an in-built HDR function?

Smashing pic of the Spitfire in the hangar – if my Photoshop skills were up to it, I’d be getting stuck into the background as we speak!

Please no! There are already a few too many daftly HDR-ified photos on here.

:stupid:

Ditto ‘Fat Albert’ for the C-130: never heard it called that, but ‘Herk’ was often used, along with non-specific terms like ‘cab’ etc.

In fact to my generation, Fat Albert was a BAF Carvair. And yes, I know that would post-date a lot of C-130s, but I’d suggest it pre-dates the term’s use on Herks.

The wind Chinook is named after the Chinook tribe of Indians.

My Chinook experiences can be read under “Helicopter Recovery at this site. https://davidelsblog.wordpress.com/

Seems fair, though the Tarhe isn’t strictly named after a tribe either.

American military helicopters are named after native American Indian tribes.

Some, but not all – e.g. Chinook.

Have you tried Maxwell AFB for Individual Aircraft Record Cards? Always my first port of call: not expensive and they should all be on one microfilm roll.