You’d do a lot worse than starting with the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, out at the airport. http://www.cnam.co.uk I sense a good ‘contra’ coming on, with their helping with exhibits and your offering them a promotional opportunity in the City!

The Americans winning the Battle of Britain now?

I can hear several dozen former aviators reaching the rev limit in their graves already!

Does anyone know what alternatives to glass negatives there would have been before 1918? (If any?)

Cellulose film and paper-backed film were just becoming available by 1918 (the Box Brownie etc), but were still quite poor quality compared with glass plates.

I guess a pencil and paper would have really been the only viable alternative, which is why so many manuals, books and magazines of the era rely on drawings.

And if you were a student, you’d have to do it yourself! See http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46352

Wasn’t it Roald Dahl who delivered a new Hurricane to Crete, to be told by an ‘erk’ “Oh dear, they’ve given you a new one, it won’t last five minutes”. Heartening or what!

I seem to rmember reading too, that Luftwaffe pilot Heinz Knoke took delivery of his unit’s first Bf109G, only to bin it fifteen minutes later!

A sad but great day 😉 😉 Anna 😉

Totally agree. The way that OW by and large became totally silent was a great tribute to Steve – the silent very pistol was an unexpected touch!

It was my first time to meet many of the forumites, thanks for the welcome.

The heroes of the day though for me were the OW pilots flying, in particular, the Avro Triplane, Cygnet and WW1 types. I seriously never expected them to fly in the gusty and turbulent conditions of the afternoon. It was a truly awesome display of airmanship.

Even at 6pm, I was like a one-armed wallpaper hanger in the turbulence all the way back to Bicester!

If that’s how these guys want to spend their weekends I don’t personally have a problem with them. On the other hand they added nothing to the day.

I did think that the lone ‘Japanese’ looked distinctly Billy-No-Mates (And disturbingly European). Almost like he was one of these lone survivors who hasn’t found out the war is over.

Moggy

Personally, putting the ‘Japanese encampment’ which was basically a groundsheet with regalia, a tent and a couple of people looking very non-Japanese, right in front of the busiest area by the restaurant wasn’t one of The Shuttleworth Trusts best decisions.

There were certainly better and more appropriate displays that could have been placed there – simply on merit, let alone taste!

Kansan,
It makes a change to have a Great War thread running on here.
Cheers
Andy

Hope I’ll have some material of interest to post later this evening that might make another WW1 hread – still scanning madly just now!