Bit of a quandry for anyone with lots of gear. Here is a link to this precise issue. Travel insurance, rider to homeowners policy, commercial coverage…all that stuff

http://photo.net/learn/insurance

Good luck, and let us know if you find a good deal. Hoping you never need to actually use the insurance!

Nice Pics! What a great find. I beleive I have seen the shot of the Stuka before, though it might have been a slightly different angle.

As for how they would end up in an album…..when I was growing up, we had some nice Official USAF glossy 8×10’s and some 4×5 transparencies about the house. My father had been in the AF and in some of his duties were making displays and such, thus having access to photos and the like. Some drifted away home…..:dev2: Might have been the same sort of thing!

Very interesting blueprints, Thank you for sharing.

Blue prints are terribly fragile things, especially when they are that old. Love to hear from some archivist on just how best to preserve them. Should probably handle with cotton gloves and stored in “dark” archival quality tubes to begin with.

Getting good scans/copies of each should be done carefully so they are not damaged in the process. Make sure the service doing the work are aware of their age and value. They are expensive to get done. I opted out of getting a scanner attachment for my wide format printer in that they wanted $12,000 for that little option!

From crawling through Google….
Sounds like the developers won. THe airport was closed and part of the land was redeveloped. Some of the old hangar space is now a film studio. The 1920’s terminal is protected as historic and has been refurbished. It looks like someone does balloon rides from the grounds, so a little aviation is still going on there even though “closed” as an airfield.

Very nice work. Charcoal can be such a smudgy beast to work with. You might sign up over at EHangar.com, an online aviation art site and pick the minds of those that are making a living doing aviation illustrations.

Found one site that states that Walter Lawrence & Co produced Mossie Fuselages during the war.

I’m not going to get into a political mud flinging contest over whose fault it is. It has been brewing for a long time. The change in airline security has saved at least one A/C full of people, the shoe bomber! What would have happened if the IRA had started blowing up airliners?

Last week we had a woman (non-Arab looking) on a flight into TIA drop a note to a flight attendent saying she had a bomb, then ducked into the Lav. The attendent and a passenger proceeded to beat the door down with a fire extinguisher. She had no bomb, just “Off her meds”

Would they have reacted like this pre 911? People are more aware. Some people now refused to fly on 9-11. The world has changed.

Flew from the states to Norway and back in Jan. Several in our party had lage camera kit and we had no problems taking it on the plane. DO NOT CHECK CAMERA GEAR IN BAGGAGE. Lost a telephoto that was in checked baggage several years ago..busted lock…lens gone…learned that lesson. Carry the kit. All of it! might get travelers insurance though.