I love the mini-cam stuff, almost as good as a cockpit checkout. As for length, well 120 minutes is great. It’s just going to be airplane nuts who buy it anyway, and 120 minutes let’s me get out of doing the dishes…”I’ll help as soon as the Legends DVD is finished dear…” 🙂

One of my favorite series is the Roaring Glory warbird DVDs. I love the first half, where Steve Hinton does his walk around, then goes flying with cockpit cameras. Is there anything like that available for the Spit, Hurri, Lanc, etc.?

Steve

I am happy to post stuff on here, and am happy for it to be used for whatever, as I like this people and you lot. Anything I want to keep to myself, I do, and other stuff gets a watermark that will make it unattractive to copying.

This is the point I was trying to make. If you want to protect your copyright, then don’t let it enter the public domain in the first place. I could be just as upset as anyone when someone copyrights a photo of my airplane with me at the controls, but that’s what public domain is all about. When a photographer or videographer uses footage of my airplane at a “public” event (which you could argue applies to every airport in the world) then I have no rights to the photos or video? I have no problem with this if that’s the way the law reads, but don’t be critical when someone copies me on a photo or video clip, with no watermark or other means of identification, that has made its way around the internet a hundred thousand times.

This “Just wait till my lawyer get hold of you” stuff is pure nonsense. In the world of patents and intellectual property the owner is required to excercise due dilligance to protect the property from general distribution to the public. If this burden is not upheld the courts often find that the material is “public domain”. This forum has many photographers who know how to apply an ownership tag line or watermark, and I respect them for doing it. It makes it that much easier to know who to contact when I want to purchase a print.

Lastly, I’m not looking to pick a fight or play devil’s advocate, but this is far from a black and white issue.

I thought it was a hotel in Wales???

Some shots of “Southern Cross” showing the jump seat and the panel. You don’t want to be a very big guy and ride in the jump seat. 😉 Good thing none of us on this forum have to worry about that. 😮

Now where did I put that beer???

Thanks Mark for imparting wisdom on the lost. An A-37 is definately NOT a Tweet. Even though they look alike, an A-37 is like a Tweet on steroids. LOTS of steroids.

Mr Patterson Sir

Am I right In thinking that the Sea Fury with the Texas flag on it is the all white one in the Seafire Vid?

Nice Artwork 🙂

Yes Nick, they are the same airplane. Stewart Dawson, the owner, also flies the Spitfire, Hellcat and other fighters of the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas.

The Mk. 20 in Breckenridge is the former “Cottonmouth”, now owned by Todd Stewart of Key West, FL. I don’t remember serial numbers, besides that’s what warbird resource group is for. 🙂

As for me, I’m just waiting on a new generator for the plane. When the new oil tank was installed the old generator was too big. Also, the plane now has just one oil cooler, and looks much better I think. There is now a spraybar water tank located in the new starboard leading edge, nice for keeping oil temps down on hot days in the pattern.

The generator was supposed to be in this week, but now it looks like Mon. or Tues. Just another typical week in the wonderful world of warbird maintenance and repair.

Once the generator comes in Nelson and I will do a couple of test flights, then I’ll bring her home. Hopefully by next weekend.