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  • in reply to: R.I.P. Philippa Booth #1312880
    Papa Lima
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    In the meantime I am sure that with a bit of googling you could amass an enormous amount of information that would grind her ideas into the dust!
    I have an acquaintance in the USA who has “females in aviation” as a thesis and within half a day I found enough in my reference books and on the Internet to keep her going for months!

    in reply to: R.I.P. Philippa Booth #1312891
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    Bex, were you not able to step in and prove the teacher wrong? Apart from the Air Transport Auxiliary, there was at least one complete squadron of female pilots in the Russian Air Force!
    Where do these teachers get their information from?

    Papa Lima
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    Well said, Tom H, I am involved in accident investigations myself and despair at the wild speculation that immediately appears on various Internet fora, some of which is even picked up by the media and used to produce headlines that bear no relation to the eventual truth that emerges.
    It takes time. sometimes a long time, to dig down to the full circumstances, and it is unfortunate in my view that the presence of the Internet and its very nature allows the presentation of knee-jerk comments concerning causes from those totally unqualified to comment.

    Papa Lima
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    I agree 100% with Cees, the old arguments are just that – old and never change. Nor will they ever be resolved.

    in reply to: EE Lightning F6 Photos help required please #1326221
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    74 Sqn began to exchange its F3s for F6s in August 1966, being the first squadron to receive full production-standard aircraft. The first was XR768 which arrived on August 1.
    (According to “Lightning” by Bryan Philpott)

    Papa Lima
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    Excalibur III

    At Udvar-Hazy last year

    in reply to: Humorous caption – help please! #1292252
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    Hi Carpetbagger
    Sörredsgården is popularly known as “Volvo City” being right next to the Volvo factory at Torslanda, Gothenburg (for those who don’t know).
    No, the only things I did there were to use the bank and the dentist.
    By the way (more thread creep) I will soon put up pix on Photobucket of the Volvo Museum aircraft, a Draken and a Viggen, both cut away.

    LimaNovember, sorry you couldn’t make it, I assume you were in your Dakota, which did come to Säve a week later, but I forgot and I missed it, digging my girlfriend’s garden instead! Grrrrr!

    in reply to: Humorous caption – help please! #1295077
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    Many thanks, contrailjj – after 30 years of practice my Swedish happens to be good enough to hold down a full-time translation job! Now why didn’t I think of the Luftfartsstyrelsen register? After all, among many other things I translate Swedish aircraft accident reports into English!

    in reply to: Humorous caption – help please! #1295127
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    Many thanks for those excellent suggestions – I like the parking warning best!

    For those of you familiar with Photobucket, I have now joined it with the username “skribenten” and put up some of the photos I took that day in an album called “Aeroseum Day May 6 2007”.
    Foe those who haven’t visited Photobucket the procedure is to Google to that name, then in the Photobucket search field to the top right, enter “skribenten”and in the window that appears, click on the appropriate heading to see the skribenten albums.
    So far I have only the one album, but will add more as time permits – the pictures take ages to upload, but on the other hand they are fairly high resolution.
    Thanks again, and I hope to post more items soon, such as the recent trip Colin and I made to Gardermoen and Bodö to see the excellent Norwegian Aircraft Collections (that means “Museums” to us non-Scandinavians!).

    By the way, can anyone tell me the type of aircraft that is registered SE-LBY (shown in the album)? I think it is some kind of Robin.

    in reply to: Humorous caption – help please! #1295899
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    I forgot to credit my good friend Colin Burgess for the first photo and the one of us taxying out. Thanks, Colin!

    in reply to: Humorous caption – help please! #1295908
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    Here we are taxying out.
    I’m not sure what kind of air-to-ground pictures you would like, but here are a couple – one of the ramp that day (we had 17 Saab Safirs visiting), and the other marks the little house I used to live in, on the island of Asperö, in the southern archipelago. I moved into town (Eriksberg) after 18 months of it taking me 2 1/2 hours by boat and tram to reach my office in Volvo, which I could see from the island! Once when in a hurry I hired a fishing boat for the 20-minute trip across the water.
    As some of you know, I used to post a LOT of photos, but nowadays with strict rationing in force, and the fact that I don’t use Photobucket or similar, I am afraid I can’t do that any more.
    By the way, as I am now one of the official Aeroseum photographers, I will have to get myself a more fancy lens for my Canon EOS 350D, at present I have the two Sigma lenses it came with, max. 200mm.

    in reply to: Mosquito wing available? #1308401
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    Hej SEF!
    I was told that the two Drakens in the Göteborg Aeroseum, 35528 and 35586 were the ones that came back from the USA. If they are not, what happened to the one that you say did come back? I was also told that 35528 has an incorrect canopy because it came back.
    Other local Drakens are 35616 cut away in the Volvo Museum, 35576 and the nose of 35542, both at Svedinos.
    These are the numbers painted on them, but of course they could be incorrect.
    I for one would be very pleased to have the facts from you!

    in reply to: Strathallen Lancaster #1246346
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    When I was a sprog JT at Cottesmore in 1962 (or perhaps it was in 1963), one day there was much excitement and a Canadian Air Force Lancaster landed. Would that have been 889 as mentioned by Peter, or a different one?

    in reply to: Aeroseum, Gothenburg, May 6 #1250366
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    I’ll be there, Daniel, ready to act as a guide in my RAF blazer in honour of the occasion. Anyone needing an English-speaking guide is welcome to nab me, as an officially qualified volunteer guide.
    Ralph (who now flies Uno Ranch’s Safir) has told me that at least 9 privately-owned Safirs will be flying in!
    Camera(s) at the ready!

    in reply to: Your Photo Processing Workflow? #456133
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    Save two copies, one in a file called “originals” which remains untouched.
    Using the second copy that is placed in a different file:
    Check for level and rotate as necessary.
    Crop to suit 21 x 29.7 or vice versa, landscape or portrait A4 if it will be printed, otherwise crop to suit the subject.
    Check and adjust levels on the histogram, also adjusting brightness if necessary.
    If necessary adjust contrast and then brightness (again).
    Clean up spots or birds flying past with patch tool usually
    Apply gentle unsharp mask, more than once if necessary, using very small steps.
    Print on my wonderful hp deskjet 940c and put in a folder or frame if I really like it!
    For web uploading I create a new copy prefixed “w” and then alter image size to 72 dpi 1000 pixels width (for friends) or 72 dpi 750 pixels wide (for Forums). This is then saved at highest resolution (12) for friends or resolution 8 or 9 if possible for Forums, or whatever is the highest to get a file size that the Forum will accept. From now on it will be 50 kb for the Flypast Forum!

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