One of the aircraft ordered for Capital as N6597C is, of course, G-ANCF preserved at Liverpool.
There’s a commentary piece in today’s Guardian with some interesting points. All a bit ideological, but this remark may strike a chord with some outside the Guardian’s liberal/left constituency:
The Americans require their airports to be owned by, not for, companies whose constitution obliges the owners and managers to put the public interest of efficient and comfortable travel first. In Britain, the issue was not even aired. BAA was simply to become a British public limited company, whose sole objective would be profit maximisation.
Full text here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/25/will-hutton-british-ownership-rules
It looks as if the government is planning to take action from this piece http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/transport-secretary-plans-fines-airports but it wouldn’t surprise me if the plan is quietly forgotten once the thaw comes.
A friend who flew in from Schiphol-Manchester last weekend says it was every bit as bad there, with outbreaks of violence among frustrated passengers and the Red Cross being called in to help with emergency sleeping and feeding. Charles de Gaulle sounds pretty grim too.
You’ll need a scanner with some good built in smarts like ICE or FARE to remove dust and scratches, but larger debris is likely to need hand retouching.
Alas, you’ll have to do all dust removal by hand. ICE and FARE rely on the dyes in colour slides and negatives being transparent to infra-red light. The silver in an old-style black and white negative is opaque to IR, and the software just treats it as so much dust and removes it from the image.
Kodachromes are also unsatisfactory after ICE/FARE treatment, for much the same reason.
Quickly…someone invent TCAS!:diablo:
If the first prototype ended up at Marignane and the picture was taken in or near Paris, then the unflown second aircraft seems a likely candidate.
I can spot an He-219, a Welkin, Gladiator, U-2 and F-117 among that collection – interlopers one and all!:D
I’ve done some Googling and I suppose I’ve answered my own question.
Jewish PoWs from the Western allies were treated fairly well, although sometimes segregated within the camps. There were exceptions, though, notably the transfer of American PoWs from Stalag IX-B to the slave labour camp at Berga. Most of them were Jewish, and around 20 per cent of them died in just 50 days.
On the eastern front it was a different tale. The Soviet Union had not signed up to the Geneva Convention and from the Nazi point of view that gave them free rein to do what they liked with Soviet PoWs (and vice versa). So many of them died in camps at German hands that the percentage of Jews is hardly relevant. They all suffered horribly, and the Jews possibly more than most.
I don’t know how much clout Congressman Wolff had in the 1950s, but if an American researcher based his conclusions on the spouting of one of the loopier backbenchers in the Commons, they’d get a picture of the UK that some of us would find hard to recognise.
I see, btw, that Mr Wolff appears to be still alive. Someone could always ask him:D
A bit difficult to hide circumcision, though. Obviously not a 100 per cent indicator of being Jewish, but in the fevered wartime atmosphere it could be difficult to explain away, I would imagine.
At the risk of drifting somewhat off-topic, are there any records as to how Allied Jewish PoWs were treated by the Nazis?
I hadn’t heard of the mag, I must admit, but I’ve had a look through its website http://www.hemmings.com and it looks a good ‘un. 12 US dollars for a year’s subscription to the digital edition looks like brilliant value for money for anyone with even the slightest interest in car collecting, anywhere. Thanks for the tip.
Looks like an old GPO Jack Plug Type 404 to me.
The order appears to have been made more than once, if I read this exchange correctly from the Nuremberg trials:
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-03/tgmwc-03-21-14.html
The paper is dated Friday, September 6. If you blow up the image, the first paragraph can be seen to read:
‘The need for care and calmness when a lone parachutist is seen is emphasised by an incident in a suburb of London on Saturday…’
That would be August 31, it seems. Apparently the threatened pilot was one of two people who came down by parachute – the fate (or even nationality) of the other one is not stated.
The Battle of Britain Campaign Diary http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/august31.html says that 37 RAF aircraft were lost that day, with 12 pilots killed or missing.
the pilot who doubled for Norman Wisdom in “It’s in the Air”
Don’t you mean George Formby?