“Daddy, when I grow up I want to become a pilot!”

“You’ll have to make a choice son, you can’t do both…”

🙂

Dave English’ site has this one listed as ‘Original author unknown, dates back to a World War II advisory.‘ so I guess we can treat it as a historic quote 😉

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Hello folk, can someone supply me with some information.
Anyone been to the Mexican Naval base at Veracruz, Mexico, recently, or going in not to distant future, who could investigate the identity of the Grumman Albatross gate guardian on the entrance road on the base. It has s/n MP-102, and has Wright Cyclone R1820-76A-94’s, (no intake on top of engine) but it cant be the same A/C that was sold to Mexico by the RCAF (with same MP-102), as it had Wright Cyclone R1820-82’s with distinctive air intake on the top of the cowling. Access to cockpit would be needed to view makers plate, which is on the instrument bulkhead in front on the right seat, t the co-pilot’s left knee.

Any help would be appreciated or someone on the base I can contact.

The naming scheme you use is best matched to your requirements with regard to sorting and storing these images. Which parameters are important for you to be able to find photos easily? I use a mix of registrations, name of copyright holder or date to store images in a structured way but that is what works for me (so far). If you are looking at large numbers of images and you want to keep things structured, work out something on a piece of paper first. And remember that your computer will sort everything primarily based on the first part of the file name. So use the most important parameter that you search for first.

Just my two cents.

It might be worth contacting the Brooklands Museum, someone in the archives there might be able to connect that number to something else in their collection. Or perhaps the date will enable them to figure out what project was being worked on. Just a thought.

The ConcordeSST website has some recommended ones: http://www.concordesst.com/books.html I cannot comment on which one’s the best one myself I’m afraid.

You could even argue that this is a similar project :p
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Thank you John for updating the list. I knew that the WarbirdRegistry is outdated in some areas but I figured it would give us a starting point.