Dave,

Im a big fan of the recent Terrence Mallick Thin Red Line. A great approach to a sensitive subject. It was also one of the few times where i have seen an ensemble cast of this size produce such a great combined performance in a film of this genre. If you take ‘The Longest Day’ for example, then it is full of excellent actors who all deliver the goods to some respect but still stay within their star persona. John Wayne for example.

The original Thin Red Line can be found at

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058648/

I have only seen clips from bost versions of A.Q.O.T.W.F, I have access to both versions so will give them a thorough watch or two each over the summer.

i think Ive seen The Heroes but it was as a child so can’t really remember too much about it,

The video installation will indeed be about Bomber Command. It will be quiet different to many approaches Ive seen on the subject of Bomber Command, I ahve an interesting if not unique concept of how to display the footage.

best regards, steve

Originally posted by Kenneth
The floatplane in Photo 2 is Lindbergh’s Lockheed Sirius (not Orion),

…And is now in the NASM, Washington. Great that it survived, I think Lindbergh donated it as he did with the Spirit.

Many happy returns,

steve

Originally posted by Papa Lima
I hope my avatar will be enough to identify me, and you can always greet me in Swedish (“Hej!” pronounced “Hey”) 🙂

I cant make it im afraid but i would have enjoyed greeting you in Swedish. I was given a crash course in Swedish pronunciation by a Swedish chap on the 19hr Narvik-Lulea-Stockholm train. 😀

cheers, the above address still though

yes, the raf still flies nimrods from kinloss and waddington. The Nimrods are about to go through an upgrade and will have new wings. Sadly, BAe forgot to take into account that each airframe is unique in dimensions and that the new design wing would not fit eacj aircraft. I think they may have solved this now.

Originally posted by Mark12
SteveH,

Many thanks for your kind offer. I guess this only works if you capture frames from a video.

Although I am not a video person, there is just one that springs to mind. “Alain deCadenet.. look out behind you”.

Awaits patiently in the wings for Sconner to nod yay or nay. 🙂

Mark

Mark, if you can provide me a link to the video in the next three days then i will glady do it for you. The software i used is on a 30 day trial and running out soon.

Plus sconnor needs to nod to.

Hurry! 🙂

steve

the following comes from http://www.homestead.com/wintersteel/BermudaTriangle.html

“”””””””The most surprising piece of news about the Avengers appeared later. The bomber planes were found in the Atlantic Ocean, only ten miles from their airbase. The pilots’ relatives said that they were extremely sorry to discover this piece of information. It was horrible for them to realize that their men died just a couple of minutes from home. At first, there were four planes found, then a fifth one, marked as 28. This was Taylor’s number.

The Russian and American Press Center helped to discover the details of the incredible finding. The Deep Sea vessel of the Scientific Search Project was searching for a Spanish galleon in 1991. The crew of the ship were making jokes about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Four Avenger planes were found on the bottom of the sea, at a depth of 250 meters. The fifth one was a mile away from the others. The archives mention only that one group of five planes disappeared in December of 1945, although the number of air crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, which happened to Avenger-type planes, totaled 139 accidents. A further examination of the planes proved that they landed on the water. However, there were no bodies found in the cockpits.

The story was not over. Another sensation arrived in the summer of 1995. Specialists from the Deep Sea vessel made a conclusion based on their research. The numbers on the planes found were FT-241, FT-87, FT-120, and FT-28. The numbers of the missing planes were: FT-3, FT-28 (Taylor), FT-36, FT-81, FT-117. Only one number matched. The mystery remains. Where did the Avengers go? Where did those planes come from?

An official government committee concluded the following in 1996. First, the planes on the bottom of the sea were not real; they were models. Second, they were placed there on purpose, for a bombing exercise.

Only stupid people might believe that official proclamation. The divers were laughing their heads off about that delirium from the government. The divers’ reports described the numbers of the planes, and it was said there that the propellers of the planes were curved due to the crash landing. Nothing like that could have happened to modeled planes. Any kind of bombing exercise is out of the question as well. The planes were lying at the depth of 250 meters. This is like shooting at a target that is behind the Great Chinese Wall. As can be seen, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle will remain forever.