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August 20, 2004 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Air to Airs from slides #1611315

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Now you want the funny part? SOMEHOW I deleted all my slide scans! Get to do them all over…BUGGAR….

Oh well….plenty more to come, folks…gotta dig through the archives a bit more…

Mark

August 20, 2004 at 12:04 am in reply to: DH Moth Rally, Woburn #1612281

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Never done the Moth fly in, but did tour Woburn Abbey itself and the animal park one day a few years ago, WITH the Moth fly-in I don’t see how it could be a losing proposition!! Great house, cool animal park…shot WAY to much film on the animals…go for it, you’ll have a ball!

Mark

August 20, 2004 at 12:00 am in reply to: Air to Airs from slides #1612311

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That’s what I did…forgot this one and did the B-25 twice…

August 19, 2004 at 11:58 pm in reply to: Air to Airs from slides #1612321

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Ok…how the hell’d I get the B-25 on there twice…and how’d I get 9 different ones on there when there’s only 8 downloads allowed? Unless I counted wrong…

The Corsair and B-25 photos were shot at the same time Phil Makanna was shooting HIS shots of them (remember the cover of one of his GHOSTS books, with the B-25’s wings dissappearing in the clouds?) Shot from the B-25 ‘Silver Lady’ at Breckenridge about 1995…Phil had the tail gun position, I had a waist gun position…

Mark

August 19, 2004 at 11:53 pm in reply to: Air to Airs from slides #1612326

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And here they come once I ATTACH them…(Derrrr…)

Mark

August 19, 2004 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Shark Mouth Picture Thread #2642555

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Only 2 planes ever pulled it off correctly, to the point where they looked like they’d kill you while you were standing still…and the ORIGINAL had a prop on it…

Mark

August 19, 2004 at 4:51 pm in reply to: US Use of Tallboy / Grand Slam… #1613635

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I would disagree…granted, the B-24 DID sit low and the bomb bay was’nt CONFIGURED to carry either of the large bombs, but with modification I believe the B-24 could carry at least the smaller of the two bombs….getting it UNDER the B-24 would have been another hassle, not much room under there, but it also could be done….anyone ever consider that these bombs may not have been carried in the bomb bay proper, but maybe attached to the outside, or underside, so they would release better and quicker and a plane would’nt have to be modified to carry the bomb?

Mark

August 18, 2004 at 6:05 am in reply to: A tribute for the Worlds first atomic bombers,B-29s and the men who flew them. #1616564

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From everything I’ve heard, ‘Doc’ is supposed to be a flyer and I have yet to hear anything different…if anyone knows anything different please speak up, but boy will it be a great sight to see TWO B-29’s in the air at once…the CAF has been talking for years about grounding ‘FiFi’ due to rising maintenance costs, but have yet to do it…here’s hoping that she goes for years and maybe SOMEDAY one of them makes it to the UK for a tour.

My aircraft of WWII book shows that there were 3,960 B-29’s built…whether that includes B-50’s and TU-4’s is not known, I’m guessing not.

Mark

August 17, 2004 at 11:49 pm in reply to: A tribute for the Worlds first atomic bombers,B-29s and the men who flew them. #1616776

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I see these pics and a flood of emotions come to the fore…anger over political correctness (another form of censorship)…happiness at seeing Gen. Tibbets with his son…sadness that Chas. Sweeney died a few weeks ago (pilot of Bock’s Car)…sadness that Aurora, CO resident and FRIEND Bob Caron (who shot the explosion pics from the tail of ‘Enola Gay’) died a few years ago…amazement at the pic of the B-29’s all piled together…hapiness that ‘Doc’ is nearing full restoration to fly in Kansas at the Boeing facility there…happiness that ‘Enola Gay’ is fully restored and PROMINENTLY displayed in the Udvar Hazy facility…completely FRUSTRATED at the shot of ‘KeeBird’ down on the ice and the fact that we were THIS close to Greenamyer flying her off and getting her home…ANGER that he did’nt and did things so haphazardly and blew the whole thing…

Off to my therapist to discuss my ‘issues’ with him now…

Mark

August 17, 2004 at 11:31 pm in reply to: P-38L Lightning Miss Behavin N505MH #1616807

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Okay, they were’nt where they were SUPPOSED to be (under my ‘pieces and parts’ category for warbirds being worked on)…but did find them in the ‘P-38 Lightning’ category itself….thank God…

Taken, I would guess…about 5 years ago? Not sure, but they had it for a few years…it came out beautifully, a shame it’s not flown…engine test runs in these shots were done, I believe, by Gary Levitz.

Mark

August 17, 2004 at 11:08 pm in reply to: P-38L Lightning Miss Behavin N505MH #1616876

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Hmmm…now i actually have to dig them out…LOL…hang on…

August 17, 2004 at 11:04 pm in reply to: P-38L Lightning Miss Behavin N505MH #1616908

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Got pics of it being restored here in Colorado for the Evergreen folks, it was done by Darrell Skurich’s crew in Ft. Collins, CO….anyone wants to see them, let me know…

Mark

August 17, 2004 at 10:58 pm in reply to: Artistic Warbird pics? #1616913

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Good stuff, folks, GOOD stuff…Gareth, when I started out shooting these birds lord knows how many years ago, I worked with a photographer who swore by TMAX 100 B&W print film, so a good part of my collection (and indeed my partner’s) early shots of warbirds are on balck and white film…but then we kept getting told by the older pilots “Ya know, they invented COLOR film during the War!!”…so we transitioned to full color from then on..However…during my recent shoot with the Collings bombers here in Colorado…I DO seem to recall I had an extra roll of TMAX in the bag and I THINK I busted it out and shot it! If I did and the results are worth a darn, you’ll see them on here…

Mark

August 17, 2004 at 4:29 am in reply to: Flying Legends 2004 DVD #1788687

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Hmmm….the upcoming Corsair Experience DVD is gonna be near 4 hours long….better order it and plan TWO nights to watch it…

What’s PORN? Is that a special code for some other type of DVD?

Will this Legends DVD be available for those of us across the pond with different format DVD players, or are we out of the loop already?

Mark

August 13, 2004 at 1:58 am in reply to: Eagles over London old movie #1794877

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I remember seeing this once a LONG time ago also…thought to myself “What MORON would actually be dumb enough to screw up the planes and markings THIS BADLY in a movie?” Funny thing is…looking now, with that deep chin on the Hispanos, it allows the paint to run under the nose and in the screen shot above, SOMEWHAT look like a Spit! Still…does this one merit a ‘worst of all time’ aviation movie kudo?

Mark
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