Here are another couple of places that may be able to help.

Paul

http://tdm-electronics.com/en/

This seller has a number of Mi 8’s but is hard to deal with, his name is Jerzy.
http://allegro.pl/statecznik-pionowy-z-mig-21-i2762326248.html

Great Book. You can get copies for about $25 dollars in some of the Warrandyte book shops (where Don used to live).
Paul

Our guys would be so impressed to see a Spitfire here! We need an exchange sponsor so I can take my DC-8 cockpit to the UK 🙂

I think we should do a 3 way round robin and include Australia too! Just need a very wealthy sponsor to get one of my cockpits to the US and GB.

Paul

I don’t like the thought of destroying original negatives much at all. If you follow this process to the ultimate conclusion you would see all national film archives (ie Aust, UK, US etc..) as well as smaller collections such as AWM, IWM, RAFM digitising their entire film holdings and then destroying everything. They wouldn’t need to spend all their money on maintaining massive climate controlled storage facilities, employing specialist film archivists and so on, they’d just need a few big computers….. And I don’t see that happening.

Here’s a quote from the following article
“Digitisation is not a panacea,” said Baker. “We have no idea what state the digital files we look after are going to be in in 100 years’ time. I don’t know how many times we’ll have to copy digital files over the next couple of centuries and what information we may lose.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/29/bfi-new-film-storage-facility

Paul

Is it possible that it is just a nice clock but it is mounted in a piece of an allied aircraft that was brought down by an Me109? Did the Germans ever refer to El Alamein in the same way we do or did they call it and/or the Battle something else?

Hi Wayne

I might have to come over for a look soon!!!!

Paul