Roy’s Sea Hawk is a credit to its owner and everyone who’s helped him with it, and it attracted a fair bit of attention today. Judge for yourself.
Met a blast from the past in the shape of Gerry Manning. I had the advantage in that he had a name tag while promoting Ian Allan tours, but he actually recognised me – not bad considering it’s about 33 years since we last spoke!
Helicopter pic throw in ‘cos it was the only thing flying today (that’s not meant as a criticism, by the way).

William

As it stands, runway length is a limiting factor for long-haul services out of Liverpool. A 757 to the US east coast (or similar distance) is about the best you’ll get with a full payload.
Things may change howver, although not overnight. Have a look at this thread I started a few days back, lifted from the local morning paper website:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60180

Public comments from Flyglobespan in the last few weeks suggest that advance booking on the New York service (to Newark), which starts next May, are runnng at a high level.

William

When you do this, please also reduce image size. If you simply reduce the file size you lose some quality in the image anyway, so it makes sense to reduce the image size to, say, 1024x or 800x as these sizes better fit computer monitors, and the loss of quality issue better matches the image.

Here’s an example – hope you don’t mind. As usual, click for full size image.

Rob

I don’t mind at all. The day when you think you know everything is the day when things go horribly pear-shaped!
Thanks for the advice,

William

All right then…RAF 50th anniversary show at Abingdon 1968, with a static show to die for.
And the MiG-29’s Farnborough debut, 1988. You could hardly see the plane in the static for the swarm of people round it – experienced seen-it-all-before aviation professionals reverting to to teenage planespotter mode.
Then the display.. You could have heard a pin drop during the routine…the tail slides, the long knife-edge passes. Honestly, you could: the sound of two engines on full reheat just seemed to fade away into stillness.
Abingdon Spitfire included – it’s been on this forum before, but who cares? I must get round to scanning in a few more – I’d just bought by first SLR a few week earlier and they’re of quite good quality.
I should have been at Farnborough today but family illness has kicked that into touch 🙁 . Maybe next weekend….

William

Is that right that the Me262 does not have a UK Permit to Fly? I would have thought that in these Euro-integrated days what was good enough for the Germans (and Americans too) was good enough for the UK.
Given the level of expert knowledge on this forum someone must be able to quote chapter and verse.

William

I know, but they haven’t been down there with submersibles etc taking loads of pics & whatnot

Try this one: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/24/wreck.hood/

I saw the programme when it was first broadcast, and my recollection is that there were quite a few good-quality submersible shots. Trouble is that the ship is largely inverted on the sea bed, so there’s not all that much to see.

William

Further to what RobAnt has said, the succesor to the Fuji 602 is the S7000. I’ve got one and am happy with it.
It’s just being phased out in favour of the S9500. Manual zoom, which means it springs into life a lot quicker and I’ve seen some rave reviews. I’ve had a fiddle with one in Jessops and I must admit I’m tempted, although as and when I upgrade it’ll prpobably be a Nikon D50 or D70 as I’ve already got some Nikon AF lenses for the F60.
S9500 comes in now about £300-£350 – maybe a touch ahead of your budget, but not much. Run it through Google and see what comes up.

Best of luck

William

Ken

This was done with the quick ‘correct colour cast’ tool in Photoshop Elements 1, using the grey of the lower fuselage as a reference point.

William