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July 25, 2006 at 2:36 pm in reply to: Temora Museum Flying weekend (56K Warning) #455889

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Anyone who wants to ‘improve’ their digital photos and don’t have the dosh to buy Photoshop should try Irfanview and PhotoFiltre.

They are both freeware, ie they are FREE! Install them both and you can do just about anything with your pix. Irfanview prog has a lot going for it including slideshows but has limited retouching features. However, you can access PhotoFiltre – which has many more features – from within it.

Great for retouching old pix. Download them from the net. Loadsa plugins are available, too. Have fun.

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July 25, 2006 at 1:54 pm in reply to: Whats wrong with australian airshows !!!! #1279573

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RAAF Richmond would be the obvious choice. It has public transport links and is not too far from Sydney. If the RAAF isn’t too busy there, perhaps they could get involved.

Of course, anywhere in Australia would be a long way to go for a lot of people – but ‘most’ of the people live in the southeast of the country anyway. And you need a lot of visitors to pay for the shows.

If Richmond is chosen, watch out for the cyclone season!

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July 24, 2006 at 10:41 am in reply to: Steel Wings? #1281344

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HP57 seems to have the answer to the steel wing query, thanks!

Another query for this thread: was the engine of the V1 fitted with explosive bolts, so that it was ejected to cause more damage? I shall explain why I would like to know…

My parents were luckily inside their indoor shelter (a steel table you could sleep under, I think called a Morrison shelter) when a V1 dropped nearby destroying many houses and other buildings. My mother found the engine at the bottom of the stairs amongst the wreckage of our roof.

They didn’t exactly enjoy good health from this event, but that’s too personal to relate here.

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July 23, 2006 at 10:39 am in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282346

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The crater was not big enough for a V2, but thanks for the input Mark.

The V1 was fast, no doubt about it – I remember the damn things going over! So would wooden wings have stood up to that?

Perhaps someone from a museum could physically check. I’ve seen them at the RAF Museum Cosford (amazing selection of German missiles and a supurb collection of planes) and museums elsewhere which I can’t remember.

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July 22, 2006 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Steel Wings? #1282685

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If anyone could say it was not a V1, what could it have been? The wing was definitely rusted red, and I have wondered about that for most of my long life! Thanks for input.

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July 20, 2006 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Warbirds in non-war related films and TV shows #1285459

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This may be a tenuous connection but, in the Anderson puppet shows such as ‘Thunderbirds’ (or was that ‘International Rescue’?), the sound used for the interceptors piloted by the Angels was obviously a recording of a Saphire engine (or two) in flight.

Nothing else made that gorgeous sound! Perhaps a Javelin? Or maybe a Swift?

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July 14, 2006 at 8:26 pm in reply to: German Aircraft Carriers? #1294131

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Thanks, lads. Very interesting. Aren’t we lucky that the German High Command was made up from a bunch of idiots!

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July 14, 2006 at 11:33 am in reply to: Some La Ferte Alais airshow photos #459430

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Wow!

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July 5, 2006 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Project for Divers? #1308022

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My original post was a suggestion for divers. The search and recovery could have made interesting viewing. Titanic has been done to death (several times over), so a new project could be more interesting. But, as further details of this model have emerged in this forum, it seems unlikely to be worthwhile.

However, I did some diving off Purbeck (Dorset) many years ago and it depended on whether a good Spring was had what the viz was like – and that area wasn’t far from the Isle of Wight. Can any divers comment?

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June 30, 2006 at 11:44 am in reply to: RAAF Raptors? #2574584

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Terrorists with bombs strapped to their chests are a bigger threat now than China and the bomb.

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June 19, 2006 at 11:30 am in reply to: General Discussion #312349

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Join the Dux Computer Forums and you will get loadsa help from other people. They sorted out several of my problems!

Website is http://www.duxcw.com

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June 19, 2006 at 11:30 am in reply to: Urgent Computer Help #1927839

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Join the Dux Computer Forums and you will get loadsa help from other people. They sorted out several of my problems!

Website is http://www.duxcw.com

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June 14, 2006 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Canberra? #1334253

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Sorry to labour a point, but our Canberras in the RAAF suffered from two temperature extremes for the flight crew.

Due to the tropopause, the cockpits were freezing at high altitude and the Sun beating down made the top half of the pilot sweat whilst his bottom half was covered in hoar frost – beat that!

Eventually the RAAF painted the top half of our Canberras white. That made a difference to us ground crew (refuelling etc) but a navigator once said to me “It keeps the bloody fuel cool!”

One of the wags on our ground crew fried a couple of eggs on the wing one day, just to prove it could be done!

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June 14, 2006 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Victor Crescent Wing #1334256

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Thanks for three-view Mark12. It shows the three-section wing quite well.

No, the prototype was a very dark green – remember it well (no, I’m not singing that!). That may have been why someone said it was black.

My favourite V-bomber.
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June 12, 2006 at 6:22 pm in reply to: Canberra? #1335397

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A Fine Canberra

If you want to see an excellent preserved Canberra, visit the Midland Air Museum (MAM) near Coventry UK. They have a 50-year old Canberra that looks like new – it even has working systems! I think they said it was a B2, converted to B6 configuration.

MAM is a fine museum, run by volunteers, and has many other well-kept military aircraft. You can get to the museum by bus from Warwick or Coventry railway stations, using the blue and yellow country bus route 539 (hourly Mon-Sat).

Ask the bus driver to let you off at Baginton Post Office, then it’s a pleasant 10 or 15 minute walk to the museum. No, I’m not connected to this fine outfit: I’ve enjoyed a couple of visits, that’s all!

I have some pics, but can’t work out how to get them into my post.

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