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March 3, 2004 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Royal Navy Dream Formation? #1564532

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What about a FAA Corsair in the group, huh? Where’s that!? Serious omission…..

Man, some people’s attempts at kids….

Mark

February 27, 2004 at 5:17 pm in reply to: Disposable Camera – The original thread. #1585976

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Thought about that one already, Flood…referring to the recent ‘Where are we from’ thread, I doubt we have enough folks from the US and Canada to get the camera all the way around and used up! I was gonna do a recruiting drive with my Aviation Photographer friends over here to get more North American faces on this forum (I can hear the British cringing) so we might be able to complete the loop….

It’s ok…lots of these guys are Photographers and historians themselves…**** Phillips, Dennis Bergstrom, notable folks like that…would that be tolerable?

Mark

February 27, 2004 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Disposable Camera – The original thread. #1586045

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I’m cool with that…we want to start a thread called ‘North American Camera’ or something?

M

February 27, 2004 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Favourite book? #1586052

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Definitely, so far, my fave is ‘Ragwings and Heavy Iron’ by Martin Caidin, one of the best aviation writers and best warbird flying books ever!

Bob Hoover’s ‘Forever Flying’ is a good one also.

Mark

February 27, 2004 at 4:29 pm in reply to: Disposable Camera – The original thread. #1586056

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Ummm….so, am I getting the camera out here in CO or not? Not clear. No biggie if I don’t, but I’m willing ready and able….

Mark

February 25, 2004 at 10:48 pm in reply to: Faces to Names!! #1601356

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Grey hair is a problem we all have, Melvyn….here is a photo of me with the girl I photograph airshows with, Denise Jorgenson…she took the Albatross photo on the Albatross thread, of the Coast Guard Albatross….we’ve been working photographing warbirds for 15 years together…

Mark

February 25, 2004 at 10:36 pm in reply to: Faces to Names!! #1601389

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HEY!! That’s one of my BETTER photos of me! Don’t MAKE me get NASTY!

Mark

February 25, 2004 at 10:34 pm in reply to: Faces to Names!! #1601392

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Hmmm…I wondered about that (if there was already a thread with our pics) but I did’nt check…Well, let’s make it for the new blood then, those who did’nt post before because they were’nt on this forum until recently!

Mark

February 25, 2004 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Grumman Albatross #1601511

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Yeah, I caught it on second glance…still, Lake Mead makes more sense…you can’t land a plane legally on a lake here in Colorado, so they’d be land based…kinda useless….Oh well.

The above shot was taken at Breckenridge Texas back in 1996, the photographer’s daughter is riding in the Albatross which then landed on Hubbard reservoir and her and Connie’s stepson got out and went swimming in the lake while the photographer/mother circled in the photo T-6 taking pictures of it all…all in all a great photo flight and a great airshow, sorely missed these days.

Mark

February 25, 2004 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Grumman Albatross #1601592

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A gathering of them here in Boulder, Colorado? When did this happen, or when is it going to? I’d love to see it!

Here’s Connie Edwards Coast Guard bird….appropriate, since I’m ex Coast Guard.

Mark

February 24, 2004 at 11:38 pm in reply to: P-38's to be recovered in May 2005 #1602329

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I, for one, support the mission…the planes are just so much scrap metal to the glacier, but upon recovery they take on a whole new level of importance when in the world of men. Hope it all goes as planned.

Mark

February 21, 2004 at 12:23 am in reply to: Advice please – warbird flights #1606763

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I can get you up in a T-6 for $100, a pristine T-6G owned by **** Jones here in Colorado and called ‘Spanish Lady’, a beauty of a plane. He’ll flop you around for an hour and let you take the stick.

Problem is, like I said, it’s here in Colorado. But if you want a 2 seat Spitfire, that would lead us on to Bill Greenwood up in Aspen and TE308…last I heard the cost on that ride was $1200.

Mark

February 21, 2004 at 12:17 am in reply to: War machine or Thing of beauty #1606767

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Ever look at a WWII battleship of the Iowa class? Long, lean, purposeful lines, sloping decks, superstructure set aft….functional yet graceful…and DEADLY…it had a job to do, and that was to lob 16″ shells at other ships and targets…but it did’nt hurt if it looked good while doing it…it helped bring the public on board supporting the Navy if they liked the way the ship looked, they WANTED to see it…

So it was with the planes of the Air Force and Navy, I believe, and it continues to this day…there is a reason enlistment went skyrocketing after Top Gun and Tom Cruise got together in an F-14, people thought it was sexy and what THEY wanted to do (no matter that most pilot recruits washed out or never got to fly the F-14)…the F6F, Corsair, P-51, P-38, Spitfire and Sea Furies were the F-14’s of their day, great looking planes with plenty of power and with a job to do. Planes that we view today dropped bombs and fired bullets yesterday, on whom and for what purpose we do not know….it was all so distant and separated from us, the airshow viewers and casual observers. Sometimes lack of an imagination can be a good thing. Have heard more than one story of a vet who saw a particular plane and it brought back bad memories (my grandfather included) and he would not enter a museum to see a certain exhibit because it hit too close to home.
The payoff is that other vets are glad we preserve these memories and relics….so that nothing like WWII happens again.

Just my 2 cents.

Mark

February 20, 2004 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Aesthetics #1607002

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Being a Yank, but curious about failed designs, I find myself fascinated by the Defiant, and thinking of ways in which it COULD have worked…we’ve already discussed ‘Gunning up’ the Defieant with forward firing guns, I have to wonder what would have happened if they removed the turret and replaced it with a pair of flexible .30 caliber machine guns, ala the Dauntless dive bomber…a fighter that could defend itself, or at least seriously discourage any attackers…and then arm it up like the Spitfire, 2 x 20mm cannons and some .30’s in the wings…i think it would have been VERY formidable…it was an attractive design, and I spent long moments at Hendon looking over their plane and thinking of what should have been done to make the plane a better fighting machine…

Then there is the Curtiss P-36, another design that never made it to its full potential, but was a nice looking ’round engined’ P-40. Very nice.

Mark

February 20, 2004 at 4:05 am in reply to: Aviation Movies #1607699

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What was his line just before he got ‘bombed’? “Ah…..Nuts!” while laughing, then BOOOSSHH!!!! Covered in fire retardant….hilarious! A highly recommended movie, ‘Always’…sent it to a friend of mine in the UK who had never seen it before, he loved it….

Mark
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