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by **MOD** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:36 am

Just posted these on UKAR. Well someone did ask!!!

I have some old/poor scans from the 80s. Mildenhall display 88, Fairford 88? and on TDY Lakenheath mid 80s?

Ian

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:52 am

MOD wrote:Just posted these on UKAR.

Very nice, BUT why are WE the POOR RELATION? :-o

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:49 am

very nice, i love SR71's

by **Hihonyr8811** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:20 am

Love the red knickers

The only one I have seen (I think) is the one on the Intrepid in New York, and I have no pics because my camera ran out of batteries :((

(bit of an ongoing joke with me it seems =))

).

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:47 am

havent you been to duxford?

by **Jigsaw** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:54 am

Xplumberlives wrote:
MOD wrote:Just posted these on UKAR.

Very nice, BUT why are WE the POOR RELATION?

Great pics Ian :ymapplause:

by **Hihonyr8811** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:12 am

Olicat wrote:havent you been to duxford?

Yeah I just remembered that one =))

But the NY one was better as it's out side on the deck and you can actually see it =))

Unlike at Duxford where from one side it's too dark and the other it too bright from the big windows ~x(

Not that i'm complaining or anything =))

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:45 am

Id love to go to the Intrepid museum some day, looks great

by **Sooty655** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:47 am

Olicat wrote:Id love to go to the Intrepid museum some day, looks great

Shouldn't you be at school? :-o

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:51 am

well, not really.
(im off ill today)

by **Sooty655** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:55 am

Get well soon.

by **Hihonyr8811** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:00 pm

Olicat wrote:Id love to go to the Intrepid museum some day, looks great

An excellent museum I must admit, I was lucky as I went in March 2006 just before they took the whole carrier/museum away to renavate it :))

It was shut for two years or something silly like that.
I didn't get to go around the concorde there either as you had to pay extra, and a very nice lady who was behind me in the queue gave me a free pass to get in :-o

How nice was that :ymapplause:

I love New Yorkers, some of the niceest people in the world (they give up their seats for you on the subway too, or at least 3 differest people did for me).
Just wish my camera had worked

"Ill" are you

Hope it's nothing serious

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:09 pm

yeah, sounds like a nice place.

its not a serious ilness like: Must-get-a-higher-rank-than-everyone-else-on-the-new-call-of-duty syndrome although i know people who have taken a day or two off because of it.
:))

by **Thumper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:41 pm

Nice pics Ian!! :ymapplause:

Flat black is a very difficult colour on a moving object to photograph. Out of all the motorcycle racing pictures I have taken it's always the black bikes that come out soft!

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:32 pm

Thumper wrote:Nice pics Ian!! Flat black is a very difficult colour on a moving object to photograph. Out of all the motorcycle racing pictures I have taken it's always the black bikes that come out soft!

I thought ALL you bikers were SOFT!

by **Thumper** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:26 pm

Yes, all bikers love kittens and puppies and helping old ladies across the road, coz we are big softies

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 6:33 pm

Thumper wrote::p Yes, all bikers love kittens and puppies and helping old ladies across the road, coz we are big softies

That's what I thought! :ymapplause:

by **Nickolas** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:10 pm

Olicat wrote:well, not really.
(im off ill today)

If you are well enough to be on here you are well enough to be in school tomorrow.............

by **MOD** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:36 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:
MOD wrote:Just posted these on UKAR.

Very nice, BUT why are WE the POOR RELATION?

Oh Dave you are NOT.

I visit UKAR and FC nightly just to catch up with the gossip/heads up. If someone asks for shots of a particular aircraft type, and I have some handy, I post them.. Simples. I am well aware that there are a lot of good photographers already on here and I don't want to over indulge myself just because I enjoy seeing my old slides on a large screen format as we have here. (I have never seen any of these slides outside of that orange Kodachrome box.) I have a wife and 2 daughters who can't stand aircraft or cars/bikes.... :((

Basically I have posted there because I was asked to - I don't feel so guilty then!!

but I come here now for the ambience =))

and some good chat.

My very first batch of scanned slides went to the VTTS Club forum, at Andy Bonsell's suggestion - I had sent him some of my Lightning shots from the 80s and that thread received over 10,500 hits before it just vanished overnight and the Club forum MkII was rolled out. I still posted occasionally there until MkIII appeared without warning and they reduced the size for photos down to 800x600pxs. As I had just spent 3 months (successfully) trying to get Fighter Control to increase its photo limit to 1024x800 pxs I was not about to start resizing all my scans just for VTTS Club..

For some reason, Pam or Wedgy may be able to explain this, my old, dirty, often blurred photos somehow look better on here than on most sites. I don't use Photoshop but I do crop and sharpen using the Canon Utlity that came with my 450D.

Dave I really do hesitate to post my old pics - anywhere, as up against the latest Pro Canons and their fast prime lenses, coupled with HDR and excessive Tone Mapping, I know my shots cannot hope to compete. That isn't false modesty either just look at the old slide photos from Mick Freer of Touchdown.NL ( a good mate of mine ) or Fred Martin ( who I went to school with ) and you will see what can be done with slides if you have a good camera and a good scanner..

Sorry mate I seem to have gone off on one

Ian

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:40 pm

Don't hesitate, we love seeing them and enjoying OUR memories of those long gone days!

Now get SCANNING!

Please

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:46 pm

Nickolas wrote:
Olicat wrote:well, not really.
(im off ill today)

If you are well enough to be on here you are well enough to be in school tomorrow.............

oh really?

i never knew having a bad mouth ulcer affected your arms

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:50 pm

You hurry up and get better BULLET!

by **Olicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:53 pm

oh i will Xpl dont you worry

by **MOD** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:02 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:Don't hesitate, we love seeing them and enjoying OUR memories of those long gone days!

Now get SCANNING!

OK XPL what would you like to see next?? I have old aircraft, new fast cars and bikes. It's just the fast women I can't cope with (anymore)!! But I would love to try

Ian

Please

by **Xplumberlives** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:10 pm

Let's have some heavy metal!

Please!

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