Personally it’s that crackle in the pipes as it passes directly overhead with the engine pedalling hard that makes the icy thrills race up and down my spine…

Any help?

adrian

Seeing that Fokker Dr1-style model reminded me of an Easter Egg-painting competition I entered quite a few years ago. I painted up an egg as a sort of fictitious Idflieg character in a red-painted German biplane made out of a kitchen roll tube and some cardboard. I won! 😀

Yep, won a couple of prizes at flower shows in my youth with eggs turned into McDonnell XF-85 Goblins… A nice easy task, with a bit of silver paint and a toothpaste lid for a jet exhaust…

What disturbs me about Riff-Raff’s Spitfire is (apart from the tailwheel) how much it looks like a P-39 Airacobra!

Adrian

If you are in Wytham Woods on top of the hill and a VC10 turns onto finals at Brize, it looks bloody scary from up there – big plane, head on, engines pedalling like hell… The first time I saw one I wondered what the hell it was, see enough of them going in there (and the wingtip-to-wingtip echeloned pairs are very impressivce when they fly by Oxford!), it’s just that change in viewpoint…

Adrian

Adrian

Sadly, I am still stuck in the film age. Ya I know…….

Rubbish! The camera I get the most fun out of, and that I want to get to Old Warden this year, is one of these:

http://www.kameramuseum.de/1kodak/box-no2-brownie.html

😀 😀 😀

Your digital stuff is all very well, but will it still be taking pictures when it is older than K5054? :diablo:

Right, off old-git-before-my-time soapbox!

Adrian

Sorry all, another Spit thread, a couple of phots of a rather famous Spitty taken at Hendon New Types Park 1936 by my Grandad, sorry about quality

Sorry about the quality!?!?!? 😮

Oh come on, Rocketeer! How many photos have you EVER seen of K5054 that weren’t official pics taken by a smart photographer with all the bells and knobs on his camera? I reckon your Grandads Box Brownie shots are fascinating BECAUSE they aren’t the fancy high-quality ones! How many ENTHUSIASTS pictures of her are out there?

(mind you, I am biased towards Box Brownies!)

Adrian

I rather think that the Paul Mantz bits in “The Thousand Plane Raid” were cribbed from “Twelve O’clock High”. Certainly it’s got THAT belly landing in it, and it has got a shedload of footage cribbed from Wyler’s “Memphis Belle”… On the bright side, the film DOES mention Ridgewell – only movie I’ve ever heard mention it…

Adrian

so how low do you go before you call it a landing??? is that Don Bullock again in the B17 and is that Andrews Field ?

Countryside is about right for Andrews field. However I’ve checked Multimap and although I can’t remember for sure what pylons look like on the OS map I can’t see anything that might be a power line. I reckon it’s somewhere else.

Given that Don Bullock was apparently Ted White’s partner in Euroworld I don’t think it can be anyone else at that height in Sally B…

Adrian