All absolutely superb, Sea Vixen pics are my favourite mainly because of my love for the type.
the B&W shot showing the three types on the ground stands out really nicely.

Can I ask why the F stops made your pictures soft at the edges, lack of depth of field?

I can see where this is going so I’ll depart now, particularly as I have been shocked by a particular response from one member.

I’m with you on this one. I don’t know why these things can’t be discussed in a calm way with resorting to hyperbole and keyboard heroism.

So why come back and post that!?
I never get ‘I’m not agreeing with this and not posting anymore’, well just don’t do it!

I don’t know anything about this particular case, there could be all sorts behind it really, but generally speaking this is a very difficult circumstance. If you’re threatened near midnight by four intruders, you are probably half asleep and dealing with poor light conditions, and trying to judge if they have weapons or if you have an equal chance of dealing with them, add to that the heat of the situation and the knowledge that the police are slow to respond and might not show much interest anyway – not a good recipe at all, and probably lead to significant action from the householder.
I must admit that I agree with the comment above that once you illegally go through the door of someone elses house, your rights immediately change.

I prefer a light Bryza (Sea Breeze)!

For somewhere like Florida, I am looking at £600+ alone for a return airfare and thats just for one of us…

That’s alright, just leave the missus at home… oh no, that kind of defeats the object…:p

It seems like you’re in the enviable position Si in being able to test the equipment out before buying something.
The only lens I have of those (and thus can comment on) is the Sigma APO DG 70-300mm Macro 1:4-5.6 which I use on a Nikon D60, this requires the AF motor to be in the lens, but it is available with or without.
I’m on a budget and for the money I find it a great lens, very smooth action, nice size and weight, and get results that I’m very happy with.
I guess ultimately like any lens it comes down to what you want to pay really, but the Sigma strikes me as a very good balance of price and performance.
I don’t use IS, we never had it years ago and I’m not bothered by it now.

Here’s two pics I took today, straight out of the camera, not cropped , both taken at the full 300mm, at 1/320sec, and 100 ASA.
I wasn’t trying hard to get a good shot and they were taken in very windy conditions!

It’s G-NADZ:o

Oh no, GONADZ! I’m sorry but I would have to re-register that!:D
Happy flying though:)

Pagen my understanding from my post on the first page was that the Hastings/Hermes is a 113′ Span, 1408 SQFt Wing, while the Halifax is a (@mk I)98′ 8″ or (not sure where I originally got 103′ 8″ from??) (@mk VI) 104′ 2″ span 1190 SQFt wing?

I’m sorry but I cant find any online reference to a 34.2M (112′ 2″) span Halifax wing? – can you advise your source?

Is this a mismatch or misquote of feet to yard conversion not feet to Metre conversion as 104’2″ = 34.7 Yards

I have a typed spec sheet giving 34.2 on later marks, and there is an online resource that lists every Halifax mark and the wingspan, and gives the later models as 34.2, darned if I can find it at the moment.
However it looks like I and that source were wrong, and you could be right, ‘Flight’ lists the Halton (which had the final wing) wingspan as 103’8″ (31.6m)

Just found the online source, http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/Halifax.htm, it looks well put together but I guess the weight of evidence now suggests that it is wrong.

What exactly are people looking for re the Hasting wing? :confused:

Personally speaking I would love to know the distances of wing tip to the first wing join (just outboard of outer engine), the intermediate section span (ie from that join to the one just outboard of the inner engine), and confirmation of the centre section span – however I entirely undertstand that this isn’t the easiest of tasks!