aren’t you jumping the gun a bit?….there’s no mention of scrapping them yet…

In a way I am, but I’m also being realistic. From the circumstances I’m guessing that they will want to be rid of the aircraft before the new building opens, and I’ve seen how long it took before the Trident at Heathrow had found a new home. I don’t see an immediate solution jumping up for five airliners of that size. Also I’ve got a suspicion that they will not be in a great state corrosionwise, meaning that they would need a lot of work before they can survive another few years. With those set of circumstances, scrapping seems to me to be a real threat.

Would it be possible to get a ‘sanitized’ version of the thread back? There were some interesting posts in it.

I have read somewhere, that it is better to do the sharpening with the image in greyscale – but I’ve yet to work out how to do that, and reapply the colours afterwards. 🙁

Not sure if this is what you mean, but it’s a trick I’ve picked up somewhere:
Open image.
Convert image to ‘Lab colors’ (Image – Mode – Lab colors).
Go to the channels tab and select the ‘lightness’ channel.
Now apply sharpening as needed.
Set image to RGB again (Image – Mode – RGB colors).
Re-save with different filename.

Enjoy!

Any info on how the scheme will be completed?

It won’t.

(See previous thread about this aircraft here 😉 )

I don’t know what to say.

I have not seen many of his displays, but just his name is so well known for all the effort he put into the warbird scene that his passing feels like an enormous loss. I too had the impression that he would grace our skies for many years to come.

Blue skies forever. 🙁

A few of mine then to add to the collection. The green one used to be a flyer when she came to Holland, but was retired after an engine fire caused damage to the nacelle. She is now in a museum in Best with two other Daks.

In the photo of the taxiing Mustang there’s a grey/red Dakota in the background. The photo was taken at Eindhoven in the late 90’s but I seem to remember that the Dak was Belgium based. Anybody who knows more?

Two shots I took at Old Warden earlier this year.

N1324, that only works if you are registered and logged in. Otherwise you cannot see the photos. I’ve taken the plunge and got myself registered so here are the images in question. Copyright XXChrisXX. (Hope he doesn’t mind me reposting them here)