I think the Bi-plane goes with the second panel shot…I was asking about the first.
Any help would be appreciated.

Great Shots

I envy you seeing the Sikorsky….and Duck.
The USCG marked Albatross is owned by Connie Edwards from Texas who also owns most of the surviving BoB film Spanish 109s. I met him awhile back when he was here getting work done in the Albatross…he really loves it.
The HU-16 is long time favorite of mine. 🙂

Cuba isn’t in South America…

Of course Cuba’s in the Carribbean…I didn’t say it wasn’t…it must be getting late there.

Sorry I wan’t around to count the US population in 1949…but what was the UK population in 1950?

As a child, I had a book with photos of the SR.A/1.
For some reason I found it vaguely disturbing. Still do. 🙂
It would have been a great scout plane for whaling fleets.

Isn’t it at Duxford?

Is it the fact that Castro is a “Communist” that makes him An Evil Man, unlike US-backed dictators who really did murder those who spoke out against them – such as Pinochet?

I’m not sure what alledged U.S. actions in South America have to do with Cuba? Cuba isn’t in South America…

Still the U.S. has a right to impose ueconomic sanctions on a country…withness UN sactions on Iraq and other economic sanctions and embargoes against South Africa.
And don’t forget Castro is still a bad guy…when was the last time Cuba had a free election?
I doub’t if thousands of Cubans are risking drowning to come to Florida just for the McDonald’s chips.
You don’t see Cuban versions of the Liberal or Conservative parties there. Not to mention no page three girls…I doubt if the party paper is free to comment on government actions. (And you thought the U.K.’s Official Secrets Act was bad! 🙂

And back to Korea…

And I’ll wager that in terms of military force, money spent and lives lost, the U.S. force in Korea WAS proportionately larger than other nations.

The US had a population of about 100 million at that time…about 5 times larger than the UK…with all due respect to the UK veterans, I don’t think the UK lost 10,000 in Korea.
And if you look at the history of the RAF in the 50’s (thanks FlyPast) I’ve learned that the RAF was in action in a lot of out of the way places…Hong Kong, Malaysia, Aden, the Suez campaign….colonial outposts all.

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Worst: The Foreigner (I used to really like Seagal’s early stuff (Above the Law, Marked for Death, etc.) but this one was a huge disappointement (the directing, acting, storyline, were all hugely disapointing. Maybe it was meant as a parody…

Nobody takes Segal seriously over here any more. I’m not even sure the film was ever released here, probably went straight to DVD…

For my money, Cold Mountain was about an hour too long.
And Ferinheit 9-11 plays a bit too fast and lose with the details for me to take it too seriously…Moore is to Journalism is what Segal is to acting…just my opinion as a journalist, but I’ll defend his right to say stuff.

I still contend that the overt political slant of particular newspapers in Europe make European readers more likely to get unbalanced information unless they take care to get news from a variety of sources. I’ve lived in the U.K. and have first hand experience with the media…at least most U.S. media outlets make a stab at being objective.

As far as the wotld having input to the U.S., sure let’s have “dialog”.
I believe Europeans still have a lot of preconcieved images of the U.S….some are fun and harmless, others much less so.
I think you’s have to wait a long time to hear any typical American bash Europe….(aside from the jokes about the French we picked up from the English 🙂 ) and we’d never think of calling the elected head of Belgium a disrespectful name and the U.S. media and public is more respectful of the British monarchy than the U.K. media.
Too many people in Europe love the cheap sterotypes…and have a double standard when it comes to viewing the U.S. and its government….witness Grey Area’s comments.

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I don’t mean to sound flippant John, but I don’t think oversimplifying things is going to get this topic very far…
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Snowman…
I thank you for your reasoned discussion. Yes, the U.S. does have a role to play in a lot of areas..the environment, econoimics, security. But since I’ve been coming to these message boards, I’ve been surprised at the depth of U.S. (and Bush) bashing.
In my resposes to the posters, I don’t think I was oversimplifying anything. Rather I think the original posters and their criticism of U.S. Cuba policy were overly simplistic. It’s easy to say…”Big bad U.S. punishing poor little Cuba…”
I don’t recall the U.K. or Belgium taking in thousands of refugees fleeing Cuba. The Cuban-American community has political clout..no surprise there. And you can understand why they are less than enchanted by Castro.
I don’t think most people would be too thrilled with a revolution that turns their country into a place with few freedoms.
My point is, that it is very tough for people in another country to understand why the U.S. has the policies it does. Lets face it, the coverage of the U.S. in Europe is often slanted by the political bent of whatever newspaper you read. After a steady diet of filtered news for years, it’s easy to get into namecalling (i.e. calling Mr. Bush “Shrub”) and taking a one-sided view of the issue.