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February 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444196

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Boring modern airliners?

Well the small Airbuses fly LCY-JFK and to Antarctica 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSky8UZUvTs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qi1umnfNP

and a frosty half hour of movements at LCY with various types
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ5IDeOUXmI

February 18, 2013 at 2:48 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444355

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Have you got one of these, MSR777? 🙂 (Baade-Bohnen BB-152 based)http://www.ebay.de/itm/VINTAGE-DZP-ORIENT-AIRLINES-PLANE-JET-AIRPLANE-AIRCRAFT-GERMAN-FRICTION-TIN-TOY-/350714623474?pt=Model_Kit_US&hash=item51a83875f2

A great many Interflug items here:

http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_nkw=interflug&_armrs=1&_dmd=1&_from=&_ipg=50

I sourced much of my Interflug memorabilia using this.

Other DDR items here

http://www.ebay.de/sch/items/DDR-Ostalgie__W0QQ_armrsZ1QQ_dmdZ1QQ_mdoZSammelnQ2dSeltenesQQ_msppZQQ_pcatsZ1QQ_sacatZ8754QQ_sopZ10

And here

http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_nkw=DDR+Spielzeug&_armrs=1&_dmd=1&_from=R10&_ipg=50

February 18, 2013 at 12:47 am in reply to: Couple of olduns #444367

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Ah…an outbreak of DDR-nostalgia (‘Ostalgie’ they call it) on Key-forum….there’s a funny and good film called ‘Good-Bye Lenin’ about East Germans adjusting to the reunified Germany

February 17, 2013 at 11:21 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444381

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It’s the existence of editing software which has allowed tight final compositions which are unachievable with moving objects using just a camera and zoom lens. I think the part of the aircraft which needs to be centred is from the tip of the nose to about halfway across the rudder (and my instinct is always to leave a bit more space round the nose)…the modern trend toward long spindly wings with winglets doesn’t help today’s photographers especially on 3/4 front shots, very tricky to get them looking right.

I did b&w for speed and price reasons and it was a strategic mistake!:) But would I have looked after Kodachromes?….they’d probably have gone mouldy!

Did you know that the Kodak labs in Paris did a while you wait Kodachrome service in the 60s and 70s? Bet it was pricy. And they would do a b&w contact strip from the Kodachromes ,too….the London press would courier urgent jobs to and from Paris

February 17, 2013 at 2:28 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444397

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Peter….Am I in a minority? I find the composition in the photos in this thread generally pleasing whereas I find the photos on Airliners.net over cropped (because of editing software?) and because their idea of ‘centreing’ is to have an equal distance from the photo edge to the nose of the aircraft and the tip of the horizontal tail or wingtip which looks wrong with swept wing types to my eye.

I fully agree, very nice shots.

Peter

February 17, 2013 at 12:30 am in reply to: Flying Boats on the Menai Straits #994466

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Here’s some starters…Google Image ‘Coronado Beaumaris’ gives a colour shot….maybe try ‘Seawings’ site, too?

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?f%5B0%5D=placeString%3ABeaumaris%2C%20Anglesey%2C%20Wales%2C%20UK&query=

AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: MARTIN MARINER.. © IWM (ATP 12363F)IWM Non Commercial Licence

AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: CONSOLIDATED MODEL 28 CATALINA.. © IWM (ATP 12693E)IWM Non Commercial Licence

AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE 1939-1945: CONSOLIDATED CORONADO. © IWM (ATP 12692B)IWM Non Commercial Licence

February 16, 2013 at 10:51 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444415

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The 3 Interflug Airbus A310s were news to me, too….it seems they were ordered in 1988 ( partly for proposed flights between East and West Germany) and delivered in 1989 the year the Berlin wall came down but Interflug got eaten up by Lufthansa in 1991 after the German reunification of 1990
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1989/1989%20-%200433.html?search=interflug airbus A310
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1989/1989%20-%202104.html?search=interflug airbus A310
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1989/1989%20-%200433.html?search=interflug airbus A310
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-04-02/business/9101300305_1_lufthansa-treuhand-interflug

Good stuff, Teddymax

February 14, 2013 at 11:45 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444497

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Gatwick 1974

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February 13, 2013 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Reginald Turnhill #997857

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Apparently he scooped the story of the problem with Apollo 13 because he was the only journalist to keep visiting Mission Control after the launch and so caught the distress call when it happened.

One of his first BBC assignments (in his raincoat!) was the first transatlantic BOAC Comet 4 service send-off at Heathrow October 1958
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/c2588e84da67eba3.html

February 13, 2013 at 10:13 pm in reply to: Old B/W pictures of Britain and some Aircraft #475612

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Aerofilms on Britains Hidden Heritage BBC2

Thanks… I just watched it on (at about 41 minutes in)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mfx07/sign/Britains_Hidden_Heritage_Series_2_Mount_Stewart/

Impressive how much care they’re taking of the negatives

The programme I saw was called Britain’s Hidden Heritage and it was on BBC2 at 00:20hrs Tues night/Wed morn.

… Not a bad little programme actually.
Cheers,
Chris.

February 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Old B/W pictures of Britain and some Aircraft #475665

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Lost Planet Airmen?

The ‘Unlocated’ gallery in Britain from Above’ contains a nice bunch of planes
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?filter=28706

February 13, 2013 at 6:44 pm in reply to: The "Merchav Aviri" Israel's Internet historic aviation Magazine #998151

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Merchav-Aviri website

Anybody know what happened to this site?….I can’t access it anymore

February 13, 2013 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Old B/W pictures of Britain and some Aircraft #475682

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What was the program/channel? BTW if you register you get a zoom function

Indeed, the programme that I watched showed a massive temperature controlled warehouse with thousands of boxes containing slides that were taken from an aeroplane on a glass plate camera, they said that they were slowly digitising them.
Cheers,
Chris.

February 13, 2013 at 11:33 am in reply to: Old B/W pictures of Britain and some Aircraft #475689

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Heston aerodrome gets excellent coverage as does Cobham’s ‘National Aviation Day’ Circus
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=heston

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=national%20aviation%20day

You need to register (free) to get all facilities, then search ‘aerodrome’, ‘air park’ etc

They haven’t put anything new on there since November

February 12, 2013 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Couple of olduns #444582

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3 more from Schiphol February 1971, regular visitors

and one from 1972
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