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Post by mickywest on Apr 23, 2018 12:56:38 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Apr 23, 2018 13:04:17 GMT
Hooray!...used the BBCode link on the flickr photo...The interest in this photo is that it shows one of the BOAC G-class boats in camoufage with the post-Nov1940 union jack but before mlitarization with a tail turret...one other photo below
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Post by mickywest on Apr 23, 2018 13:06:21 GMT
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Post by mickywest on Apr 26, 2018 11:35:39 GMT
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Post by geoffreynegus on Apr 26, 2018 16:43:49 GMT
Is a date known for these photos? I ask because Lisbon is where this aircraft met its end, on 9 January 1943, following an engine fire during a test flight. Geoff Negus
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Post by mickywest on Apr 26, 2018 19:17:27 GMT
Geoffrey..I believe the photo of Golden Horn being craned was taken after it lost a wing float at Lisbon in an earlier incident (April 1942 see forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?142170-WWII-Flights-To-Lisbon/page2 ) . I thought the large Union Jacks were introduced after October 1940, which conflicts with the G-class boats having turrets fitted around that time. The militarized, turret eqipped G-class boats served with the RAF in 1941 but survivors (Golden Hind and Horn ) returned to BOAC in 1942 retaining blanked-off tail turrets. I have some scans of the photos in the National Archive of the wreckage of Golden Horn after the fatal crash of 1943. M West 17763
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Post by mickywest on Apr 30, 2018 13:32:32 GMT
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Post by davidkeeble on Apr 30, 2018 14:11:42 GMT
Micky - Am I missing something or is there supposed to be a picture in the above ? (there's something saying "click ikon")
davidk
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Post by mickywest on Apr 30, 2018 16:42:50 GMT
Hi David...On my display there was an ikon showing but it didn't work. There's now an ikon just before the message and a plain link just after the message ...perhaps one of those will take you to the zoomable IWM photo?...EDIT Both ikons and the text link open on my windows laptop (Chrome browser) using 'open in a new tab' but on my Android tablet the ikons don't show and the text link fails viewing in Chrome browser but works partially in Internet Explorer...a puzzle. M West 17763
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Post by davidkeeble on Apr 30, 2018 16:57:26 GMT
Hi Micky
Yes, I can access the photo now - what a tranquil scene !
I have found that on this Forum a blue hyperlink does not seem to work directly, but if cut and pasted then it works fine - is this your experience too ?
EDIT: I'm using Firefox on a laptop
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Post by mickywest on May 5, 2018 16:20:51 GMT
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Post by davidkeeble on May 5, 2018 16:27:07 GMT
There's no photo Micky. EDIT: but there is now - beautiful clear picture!
davidk
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Post by mickywest on Jun 5, 2018 21:10:45 GMT
A less common image from Charles E Brown's Whitchurch session in 1942...I suspect he shot it in colour Attachments:
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Post by davidkeeble on Jun 6, 2018 7:37:23 GMT
Micky
Probably not the correct thread to ask this question - but how do you manage to get photos to display full screen. Every time I try I just end up with a thumbnail, (although members can display these full screen if 'clicked').
Really enjoy your choice of photos - keep them coming.
Regards
davidk
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Post by mickywest on Jun 6, 2018 11:29:30 GMT
Hi David...I put an image URL in the picture insert button in the reply box (7th ikon from the right)....the Whitley is an expired online auction archived photo, the G-class flying-boat came from Flickr...don't really know what I'm doing, did the same with the Whitchurch DC-3 photo here and just got this ikon (right-click) (if it appears!) www.mediastorehouse.com/douglas-dc-3-of-klm/print/1768673.html Behind the DC-3 is a BOAC Albatross/Frobisher, tantalizing that Charles E Brown probably got that in colour (and the Whitley!). The RAF Museum have some damaged transparencies by him that I'd dearly like to see :-)
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