Operation Sonnie G-AFYO

You’ll probably find Guy Carnine’s notes interesting, in that Sonnie was disguised as a BOAC operation initially
http://www.b24.net/stories/carnine.htm

If you look at G-INFO site you can view the registration documents for some of the Sonnie CB-24D/C-87s (but not G-AFYO)…10 radio codes were issued in the G-AFY* and G-AFZ* series

The Autumn 2009 Air Britain Archive mag has a short article about Sonnie and G-AFYO

I’ll send you a PM later tonight

Cloudwarrior… I’d have allowed a little more space in front of the ANZ 747 but you get away with it more because of the position of the 747 cockpit windows…at least on Key Forum you can edit how you wish!

Culpano….apologies for ‘drifting’ your thread….I like both shots you posted….it’s a shame composition doesn’t count for as much as other attributes on A.net

Longshot, it’s not quite as easy as that! 1600 pixel wide images are MUCH more difficult to sharpen and nail in terms of quality. Basically the original has to be almost perfect to get serious quality at 1600 pixels wide. If everyone uploaded to aviation photography sites that wide there’d probably only be a fraction of the images to look at because most would have been rejected!

What I meant was if the picture is uploaded larger than 1024 people can do their own crops, [should they wish :)]…..in the obsession with sharpness and ‘quality’ the content. background and composition of photos has been largely ignored. The screeners have a concept called ‘centred’ which clashes with the classic photographic ‘rule of thirds’ and also is at odds with the shjape of modern airliners (pointed noses/sharply raked tail-feathers)

Overcropping

I can’t stand looking at many of the uploads on Airliners.net because the aircraft noses are rammed against the photo margins like darts in a dart board….am I alone?

Hawker Hardy photos from Palestine

I’ve assembled various aviation albums on Flickr from scanned negatives on line at the US Library of Congress…in the linked album there are some of the Hardy at Ramleh and what looks like a similar type on the cruiser which brought Haile Selassie to Palestine in the 30s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/sets/72157624883084188/with/4968545363/

and a sample

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/4968545363/in/set-72157624883084188/

Wrong number of engines though :)….bit of Buccaneer and Tu-104 in there, too!

Tim … The text page you sent me about the L14s escaping through Scandinavia suggests that red/white bands were applied to SP-BPM about the 10th September (1939) (not clear whether at Stockholm or in Finland). Have you got more on this?…Mick