I must be missing something here. Daily entry price £18 (with donation) IWM Membership Single Adult, unlimited for a year £35, three visits and it has paid for itself!
Think yourself very lucky you can visit so often as it’s an eight hour drive from here and I only visit every other Ice Age.
Is there going to be anything left to see at Hendon?
No point in anyone visiting the museum if most of the exhibits are in storage or the halls are closed.
Slight recognition problem. It’s a Trident. Very sad picture though.
N515ZB P-51 , Wick by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
I reworked it, perhaps that’s why.
What a day yesterday turned out to be. Well worth the 460 mile round trip…. and no step ladders required!
https://flic.kr/p/WoTYtv
George’s strip is at his farm at Easter Poldar near Thornhill. The aircraft is most likely to be there as opposed to Cumbernauld.
I would urge caution in visiting as visitors are not welcome at any of those two locations.
The best thing would be to use the address from G-INFO.
Your toy looks very nice indeed.
I would suggest a night engine run about the end of the blue hour with some light shining into the prop for the full disc effect.
Nav lights will give some nice colour to the shot but NOT landing lights, too bright and will burn out the pictures.
Perhaps a red light inside the cockpit to illuminate the pilot, doesn’t matter if there’s movement.
If you are lucky perhaps a silhouette shot at sunset, if there is a clear enough area.
Only sorry I can’t be there for it.
A couple of worklights on stands will do the job. I use a small portable LED worklight from Screwfix with great results.
It all depends on what you want. Light up enactors or do some subtle light painting.
I recently organised one at Scone, asked for a £10 donation for the local air ambulance and ran an informal workshop at the same time.
Start small and work up to something big.
Nice to know that tango Juliet has been saved. It used to be a regular at Scone during the summer survey season, had a big Leica in the back when I saw it 2005/2006, wow time really does fly.
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5837027
This sounds like some nice progress for the museum, although I’ll miss the old bean-tin exhaust stubs on the Camel.
BAPC.59 Sopwith Camel , Montrose by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
By any chance does it answer to the name of HAL?
Great following the restoration progress.
See if you really want to know then this will let you know
https://www.lynda.com/Flickr-tutorials/Sharing-Photos-Flickr/435438-2.html
It will cost you about £14 per month but then again you can always brush up on other things like Lightroom, Photoshop etc.
I do a lot of Flickr work and I learned a thing or two, including how versatile the Camera Roll can be with bulk editing.
There looks to be a Gull glider, the Tiger Moth, an Auster and a PA38 Tomahawk suspended in the new gallery, which opens today.
I took a “daftie” and travelled down to Elvington yesterday on my motorbike, meeting the Meteor restoration crew and Blue 2.
Took a sequence of photos showing the canopy coming off…
The planning stage
WS788 Meteor, Elvington by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
The hard work begins
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-063 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
Running out of arms length
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-064 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
Time to get high
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-067 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
Higher still
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-068 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
Getting the canopy out of the groove
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-069 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
Success
WS788 Meteor, Elvington -20160703-071 by Wallace Shackleton, on Flickr
I had a good look around WS788 and it was great to see the work being done on this old bird. I can only hope that one day we could hear the scream of two Derwents from this machine.
Thanks once again for the tour and the time, you are doing a great job.
Wallace
I too enjoy reading your restoration blog.
I dare say that you would not have applied power if you hadn’t thought it OK to do so.
As for serious restoration, your preservation efforts are praiseworthy.