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November 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Royal Marines executed injured man #1850800

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I don’t normally side with those ‘to the right of Genghis Khan’ but I find the prosecution and conviction of Marine A hypocritical . On this Remembrance Day I would suggest he. too. is a victim of war. at extreme risk of PTSD and rehabilitation to civilian life (if that’s ever possible after ‘combat hardening’ as a foot-soldier) should be the priority and not a prison sentence.His Commanding Officer and the Prime Minister could have kept their mouths shut between conviction and sentencing.

November 9, 2013 at 10:46 pm in reply to: BOAC Wellingtons #975987

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Whats the working title of the book?

November 9, 2013 at 4:42 pm in reply to: BOAC Wellingtons #976372

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How much do WW2 images charge for repro in print? I believe Getty act as agent for LIFE-TIME images in the UK so their London office may be able to grant repro permission even if access to the negs/print is impossible (i.e, working from the scans online) e/.g. http://images.google.com/hosted/life/57f1d135c21d7233.html
And thanks to pogno for the flickr link

August 31, 2013 at 1:43 pm in reply to: Some WW2 photos USAAF #965950

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/37428606@N05/with/3517861547/ Hope you like…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37428606@N05/archives/date-posted/?view=md……for easy viewing

June 25, 2013 at 5:40 pm in reply to: landplanes "operating" from aircraft carriers #2243319

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The USN flew R4Ds (their version of the C-47) off carriers to Antarctica with RATO and skis fitted, see Operation Highjump on here
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/47.htm
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/024752f.jpg
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/024752i.jpg
In the 1960s I think the Boeing 727 and Fokker F-28 were evaluated as possible COD aircraft but never tested on deck

June 12, 2013 at 10:47 pm in reply to: London Airport in the 1950s #962887

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The Concrete Technical Block A was built as an integrated hangar/store/office block with BOAC management offices up the centre overlooking the hangar space and known in the Fifties and Sixties to some as the Kremlin.
Historian Robin Higham was given an office in this building to write his officially sponsored history of BOAC ‘Speedbird’ in the early Sixties….twice blocked by BOAC/BA management changes it has only been released this year some 53 years after his history of Imperial Airways came out

May 24, 2013 at 2:34 pm in reply to: Grumman Avenger with two highball bombs #982943

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Yes I was wrong….the splash hides the moment of impact and the bomb passes right through the structure till it’s way above the aircraft

May 23, 2013 at 12:59 pm in reply to: Grumman Avenger with two highball bombs #984116

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When I watched the video of the A-26 drop and violent crash I got the impression that it was the impact of the water splash NOT the bomb which weakened the tail causing it to fail, and the wings were beginning to fail in negative-G as the aircraft impacted the sea, or did I get it wrong?

May 17, 2013 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Popham Vintage Vehicle and Aircraft Fly in 06-05-2013 #474008

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Just watched your Popham set on flickr slideshow full screen…good stuff!….what camera/lens combination? and what shutter speed (1/125?)

May 5, 2013 at 4:41 pm in reply to: London City #442073

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It must have employed thousands of dock-workers. Apparently the iron bollards used to tie up the ships were merely burned off level with the concrete when the airfield was laid and now they throw the airliner compasses out of line

May 5, 2013 at 12:04 pm in reply to: London City #442091

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London City Airport nearly 80 years ago 🙂
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw044121?filter=new&ref=4624

from Britain from Above page
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?filter=new&page=46

April 30, 2013 at 8:32 pm in reply to: April Shuttleworth Display #474411

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The colours have come through very well in the rather soft light… just the Po-2/Auster duo perhaps needed some sunlight?What was the lens/camera combination?

April 30, 2013 at 2:35 pm in reply to: Simmons Spartan Aircraft. Free PDF book. #1006409

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If it was in the USA or New Zealand it would be restored and flying, I reckon.

I doubt very much if there are any plans to restore it. Restoration at East Fortune is very much limited by cash and manpower, and even the Beaufighter is still lying in bits after 12 years.

They spent a lot of money bringing the wretched Concorde to Scotland to try and boost numbers, and this was deemed, despite having no Scottish connection whatsoever, to have greater importance.

April 26, 2013 at 12:06 am in reply to: Postwar Soviet Douglas A-20 Boston question and profile #1010473

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Noticed this in the DC-5 chapter of Rene Francillon’s ‘Douglas Propliners….Skyleaders’

Around 1938 the Douglas El Segundo division under Ed Heinemann evolved what was built as the DC-5 from a projected mailplane version of the DB-7 Havoc/Boston called the DC-7 via a slightly larger high wing passenger plane. the Model 10

April 25, 2013 at 1:39 pm in reply to: Iraqi Airways news. #513258

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As one who considers RAF Transport Command colours, late 60s to be the most tasteful ‘colour’ scheme I like the A320 at the top in minimal markings :)….lets have less playschool art on airliners (the exception being the old BA Utopia tails)!
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