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May 12, 2008 at 3:02 pm in reply to: WANTED Book/s about DH4 #1186434

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Hello Phillip;
I think that one of the best DH-4 books is: “de Havilland DH-4, From Flaming Coffin to Living Legend,” by Walter J Boyne. This is book # 7, in the series, “Famous Aircraft of the National Air And Space Museum.” 120 pages with dwgs charts and profusely illustrated, including close-up details. There is also a good bibliography of related books, including Aircraft Profile Series #26, “The de Havilland D.H.4″by J.M. Bruce, and a dozen others.

There are curently, about 20 offerings of the Boyne book on the search site Bookfinder.com. Cuiously there are several in the U.S that are offered at $15-$18, BUT-the ones offered by UK sellers are $42-$50 and up!.

April 5, 2008 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Wanted (Please): Optica Photos #1222725

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Hi Dragonfly:
I have (11) negatives for:
BOPN; BLFC; BLYZ; BMGW; BMPF;
and additional prints of:
BMPC; BMPE; BMPL
I don’t know what your project is for, or what size or resolution is best for your needs. PM or email me, and maybe I can help.

I can scan and print postives, or make high resolution positive digital images, from these negatives.

March 4, 2008 at 9:31 pm in reply to: "Flying Battleship": Real or Fake? #1248531

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my first thought was.. “there’s a new Indiana Jones film coming out” 🙂

Roger Smith.

That is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw it. Bet that’s it.

February 26, 2008 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Beagle 206S-2 G-ATZR(merged) #1256654

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All this talk of Beagles reminds me – whats happened to G-FLYP?
TT

Not an update, but here she is/was at Cranfield, 22/6/02

February 6, 2008 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Chipmunk Books #1277052

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Both our Vamp XD599 and the Chippie are pretty camera shy (though we have at last found a couple of pics of the Vamp now!)
TT

My apologies for going off topic for a mo.
But I just found two negatives of Vampire XD599 and would just like to help you, before I misplace them. AGAIN.

Do you already have photos of 599
1. In flight, CATS/A, 3/1969? side view?

2. in hangar/ or in front, CATCS/A Shawbury 11/70

If not, PM me wth your regular email address and I’ll send digital image.

February 6, 2008 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Chipmunk Books #1277081

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Hi there –
Does ANYONE have a pic of WG419 in service!!!!????
TT

Well I gave it a TRY TT. Just went through 1400 Chipmunk negatives, (At present, they are only grouped according to “Chipmunk,” and not sorted into more specific groupings of Chipmunk…yet) and it seems WG419 was camera shy! 🙁
Closest I could find were a couple of WG420 from 1966-71 Bristol UAS, and WG 417 1969/70 8AEF Gaydon (Caydon? -smudged marking on envelope)& Shawbury.

December 5, 2007 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Museum owning an Arado 196 instrument panel wanted! #1258312

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The Deutsche Technikmuseum, Berlin recovered an Arado Ar 196, I believe. And if they don’t have the actual part you need, they certainly did a lot of research on it, and might be able to help with dwgs or a source for them.
http://www.dtmb.de/Rundgang/p07_en.html

November 25, 2007 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Second hand aviation prints… #1269177

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I would highly recommend the site:
http://www.ehangar.com/

You can search for aviation art prints by artist; title of print; dealers who list that print, and current market values, along with a lot of other information, in its directories and search files. There is also an excellent (and active) forum for both the aviation artists, and aviation art collectors. Also a free wants and disposals section. Good Luck!

October 16, 2007 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Heinkel He 51 #1320567

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The builder is Peter Davies Garner, and he is giving a first-person account of the building project, problems, plans, parts, and Engine rebuild with photos on this new replica builders forum.. The forum organization is a little confusing. there are different aspects of this same build/conversation in different sections of it. So you need to keep searching around..There is a nice p[hoto of the engine and a very interesting commentary from Peter, so it is well worth the effort.
http://aero-craft.org/testJoomla/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=30&func=view&catid=100&id=11031#11031

If this link does not work. do a web-search for aero-craft.org

October 12, 2007 at 6:49 pm in reply to: RAFM closed area photos #1324508

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Rob; Thanks for the WWI bits. Interesting front/rear cockpit view.. The Sunderland intererior shots were great. Have never seen that before, and nice and clear and well lit. Aprreciated! 😀

October 9, 2007 at 5:45 pm in reply to: Chris Ashworth photos #1328534

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Okay, fellows, now I am REALLY asking for help. I just heard from librarian at RAES, (which has a collection of Chris Ashworth’s reports and studies and research notes). I was hoping that his listings of photos were in that group of papers. They are not…His negatives were numbered, and I assume he MUST have had a list or a notebook, or a computer file, that indexed his negative and photo collection. (numbers went into the 120,000 range at least..) No sense numbering them if there was not a master list. He apparently TRADED photos and negatives with a LOT of museums, archives and individual collectors. Perhaps he sent his list to some of them? I am desperate to find a copy of that list or notebook, Any help appreciated and rewarded. :confused:

October 8, 2007 at 7:15 pm in reply to: RAFM Hendon – any photo requests? #1329415

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Hello Rob;
It seems one can find a photo or two of most any of the aircraft, somewhere on the Internet, with some digging. But it is REALLY hard to find photos or images of the aero engines on display. I would especially enjoy seeing some different image views of various WWI aero engines, from different angles. *AND* I would be happy to trade you some photos that are in YOUR area of interest. Would certainly appreciate seeing photos of ANY of the WWI memorabilia, bits & peices, as well. 🙂

October 7, 2007 at 8:42 pm in reply to: Chris Ashworth photos #1330398

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Thank you for that information, Ag-Cat; That is what I was hoping to learn, when I started this thread. It was fairly obvious that Chris had done a LOT of photo and negative trading over the years. And I HAD suspected that was the story behind that initial code (as an I.D. of the source..)on the envelope… as you confirmed. It boggles the mind to consider the hours, days, years, and decades that Chris spent studying and assembling images of aviation history. I have enjoyed the pleasure of corresponding and sharing with other collectors and museums for over 40 years. We learn something in almost every discussion, and the thirst for knowledge is never quenched. Your comments on Chris provide a well deserved tribute. Thanks.

October 6, 2007 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Chris Ashworth photos #1241629

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The quality of the photos and negatives in his collection were amazing. Here is an image of one of his glassine envelopes holding a 2″ x 2″ black & white negative. It is followed by a LOW res digital image. But I took this 2×2 negative and placed it in my Epson 4990 scanner, set the scanner to
” Black and White Negative film” and it printed a beautiful POSITIVE 4 x 4 image @ 1200 dpi . this one photo can be enlarged enough to CLEARLY READ the tiny stenciled printing of “T.P.38” on the bottom of the landing gear leg; the small cLEAR stencil on the bottom of the tail cone that reads “T.P.40” and the stenciling of the “NO HAND HOLD” on the front of the vertical fin fairing. Getting a good image of the 6 AEF insignia on the side is a breeze! You can even clearly see the cotter pin in the axle nut, positioned at a one o’clock/seven o’clock position. with no editing at all. And this is just an early experiment-I have no idea what I am doing, with these scanner settings yet.
Very optimistic. Mr. Ashworth has left a significant legacy…

October 6, 2007 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Chris Ashworth photos #1241789

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Martin;
Thank you so much. That is exactly what I was hoping to find. And fast response, Indeed. 🙂 And I would STILL be interested in hearing from any other historians or collectors who traded photos or negatives with Mr. Ashworth, over the years. Or those who may have sold or supplied aircraft photo collections to him.
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