The WRECK of AL557 lies here in Colorado, waiting to be restored…

Mark

Yamato vs Iowa….Iowa loses? AAAATTT!! Wrong answer, we covered that one…at least in these forums, the Iowa class won…but hey, thanks for playing!

M

So…since large ships rarely travel by themselves any more…would’nt it be more reasonable to compare the BATTLE GROUPS of these two formidable ships? Then things would even out I reckon, as the Aegis cruisers and destroyers would give the Iowa an adequate early warning capability and anti aircraft/missile abilities as well as over the horizon firing capabilities-aw, I’ll leave their ‘capabilities’ to you modern day experts on missiles as you lot know more about it than I do (I seem to limit my knowledge of such things to WWII)…so let’s argue the point from a ‘battle group’ scenario…who wins THAT one…?

Mark

Hmmm…maybe a good choice…Ray hasd been known to take quite a while on restorations….8 years on the Firefly and STILL working on the Lone Star Hurricane…

Mark

I wonder if we have enough Yanks in here to start an American thread on Ghosts of American airfields, since we pretty much covered all the others in the UK, NZ and Australia (or did we? Hmmmm….) Tragedies that happened during the war in the UK that brought about ghosts later on HAD to have happened under similar circumstances (with the exception of combat, of course) in the US on training flights….I bet there’s some stories out there…

Mark

Ah….springtime in the Rockies…ain’t it great?

mark

Mk 12-I gather you were in Greenwood’s Spit?

Disaster #1…air to air with Eddie Kurdziel’s Firefly a few summers ago, shot 4 rolls of slide film, 3 rolls of print, the film lab processed ALL of them as print film….now the SLIDE film looks slightly off, like slides shot for an old National Geographic, all the colors slightly out of whack with what they SHOULD be…but still useable…thank god for print film.

Disaster #2, WAAAYY back before I started shooting seriously, big warbird show in Denver in 1988, I took a junk camera and a roll of film to the show, shot 36 exposures of the planes, they all wound up on the first frame…..seems the camera had torn the advancing holes on the film and it never moved…

Disaster #3, sent my partner Denise up in a T-6 to Photograph Bill Greenwood and the Spit…got three rolls of him on film, the developers processed it AGAIN as print film and botched the whole batch (in his defense, we WERE rolling our own film at the time and we did put slide film into regular print film containers, he said he thought it was print film, despite us telling him otherwise).

Mark