I think I watched it from the Central Ground Enclosure.
This is another one from the Northside ramp of the press and the Comet captain 26Oct1958 (but I can’t find it on the archive site now which is a crap advert for google!)
Britannia is G-APLL reregistered from ‘NBG

and a view I took of ‘NBG probably 1956 in more or less the same spot but parked the other way round

I would date that pic 1954 or early 1955 so the big Green dragon near the tower may not have started then.

The interior shot didn’t come through.

Here is that shot inside the Dragon. But not the big tall Dragon that I knew.

Can you see the “shed” sizes Dragon on the attached pic ?

Looks like the V350 won’t do 6×6 negs and larger. There seems to be slide adapter which takes 5×5 slide mounts, maybe you could play around with that to scan parts of large negs otherwise it’s a new scanner or use a public library scanner or commercial camera shop.
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You need to experiment at leisure beforehand if you’ve only one chance at the book….I’ve only used a bridge camera (Fuji s1500 on auto) for document scanning (eg at the National archives) and it’s incredible how tolerant it is with focusing, in fact the last time I was there I didn’t even bother to’ square up’ to the documents, shooting at about 20degrees off the vertical!….One problem I hit photographing a more important book was barrel distortion which is prevalent at the wide-angle end of a zoom (and hard to correct) so using a medium focal length if compatible with macro might be a good idea

I’d beware raising the spine of any book never mind one which is over 100yrs old, you will almost certainly damage it. Arrange some support for the book so when it’s open the binding is supported so that the book is in a vee shape. It’s not a good idea to have the book placed flat on a surface.

Make sure your f stop is in the middle of the range possible with your camera, this will give you good depth of field and reduce distortions. Put the camera on a macro setting if you have one. Experiment with white balance setting to get the right one. Ensure that you have ambient good light but not direct sunlight as this will damage the book. You shouldn’t need a tripod.

This method gives me good results at The National Archive, but then I only want to record not produce a work of art!

Regards

CAM 1954, 1955 and 1958

Started spotting in 1954, at Junior school under the 28L approach, logged a couple of El Al Commandos that year and recall seeing the Monsanto Catalina. The 1958 C.A.M has 2 BOAC luggage labels stuck to the front….probably from the Northside bins, a source of labels and timetables. The 1955 4X- page has the warning about listing military serials adjacent. The 1954 N- page has TWA Constellations N86522 and N86535 inked in which weren’t in the ‘bible’

Also try http://www.gavs.it for their Registro Civile Italiano
http://www.gavs.it/rci.php

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Lands End Developments

New Tower and Terminal

Lands End Airport 1 by A30yoyo, on Flickr

Lands End Airport 2 by A30yoyo, on Flickr

The U-2 and other high altitude jets were primarily Photo-reconnaissance weren’t they and the Mercator and other lower level types were interested in monitoring Radio comms and probing Radar emissions?