6th Jan 2024, 07:24 - Wikipost
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Which Aerodrome Mk IV
I don't have software to post photos (I don't use Windows, only Chrome) so it's (as usual) Open House (get in quick bear)
What is the problem chevvron. I run chrome from my PC and have no problems.
please give it a try.
I use chrome as well and have no problem posting photos - hit the little square with mountains near the Smiley icon, drag and drop pictures from Explorer into the big arrow and cloud on the "UPLOAD Files" dialog
All very well but all my photos are on 35mm and I have no way of downloading them so still OH.
There are good and affordable 35mm negative scanners.
Gives you something to do with your excess time on your hands.
And the public is here on H en N forum.
But most photos I pull from the net when I see an Aerodrome which interests me.
Anyway then this challenge
Gives you something to do with your excess time on your hands.
And the public is here on H en N forum.
But most photos I pull from the net when I see an Aerodrome which interests me.
Anyway then this challenge
They look like Fokker's to me but those tail markings? Somewhere in Europe 1918?
Could then tail markings be Swedish?
I re-watched the classic "Dr. Strangelove" the other night and at the 19:52 mark there's a scene with Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake meeting with Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Ripper's office. First time I'd ever noticed, but on Ripper's office wall is an image of Heathrow airport. I find that strange for what was an American production.
I find that strange for what was an American production.
I remember reading that the set designers built the B-52 cockpit using their imagination and common sense - how many thrust levers do we need?.
Apparently the USAF were appalled when they saw it and thought someone had been passing on secrets!
I’m always amused by the low-level sequences, where the Buff’s shadow has magically morphed into a B-17’s.
It was filmed in Britain so that explains the Heathrow picture, which I still think is a poor continuity decision.
I’m always amused by the low-level sequences, where the Buff’s shadow has magically morphed into a B-17’s.
Cheers,
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I'll promise I'll ban myself for drift but Stanley Kubrick flatly refused to fly so all films since late fifties made in his adopted UK home or nearby. His use of Brit character actors is always a giveaway From Paths of Glory onwards through Barry Lyndon, 2001 A Space Oddity and finally the Cruise/ Kidman err, thriller...
Rob - deeply sad Kubrick fiend
Rob - deeply sad Kubrick fiend
Given Rob’s post above, I’ll risk drifting a little further.
Besides playing President Muffley, Squadron Leader Mandrake and Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was supposed to play the character of Major Kong. Due to an injured ankle, although there is some dispute about that, he was unable/unwilling to play the Major Kong part.
As a consequence, Kubrick made the inspired decision to cast Slim Pickens:
I hadn’t seen the Wikipedia entry before, but I highly recommend it. Extremely detailed and informative:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
Besides playing President Muffley, Squadron Leader Mandrake and Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was supposed to play the character of Major Kong. Due to an injured ankle, although there is some dispute about that, he was unable/unwilling to play the Major Kong part.
As a consequence, Kubrick made the inspired decision to cast Slim Pickens:
As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States. He had to hurry and get his first passport. He arrived on the set, and somebody said, "Gosh, he's arrived in costume!", not realizing that that's how he always dressed ... with the cowboy hat and the fringed jacket and the cowboy boots—and that he wasn't putting on the character—that's the way he talked.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
"They are Fokkers but not Swedish."
I can't find those tail markings other than some Spanish Civil War ones - but that is ruled as they're Fokkers
Are we pre or post 11 November 1918 Bear?
I can't find those tail markings other than some Spanish Civil War ones - but that is ruled as they're Fokkers
Are we pre or post 11 November 1918 Bear?
Now that looks like a Fokker D.XI or D.XIII
At max magnification the nose looks a bit more like a D.XIV = which take us perhaps to the Reichswer and onwards to Lipetsk in the late '20's?
OH if correct
At max magnification the nose looks a bit more like a D.XIV = which take us perhaps to the Reichswer and onwards to Lipetsk in the late '20's?
OH if correct
Indeed Fokkers at Lipetsk.
A Russian Aerodrome paid for by the Reichswehr were the Luftwaffe could practice and train their new pilots.
As the complete Luftwaffe was forbidden it has to be done in secret in Russia. Russian pilots got trained there as well as repayment.
I had never heard before that Fokker evaded the embargoes with also turning a blind eye of some Dutch customs.
OH called
A Russian Aerodrome paid for by the Reichswehr were the Luftwaffe could practice and train their new pilots.
As the complete Luftwaffe was forbidden it has to be done in secret in Russia. Russian pilots got trained there as well as repayment.
I had never heard before that Fokker evaded the embargoes with also turning a blind eye of some Dutch customs.
OH called
Last edited by Self loading bear; 25th Mar 2022 at 18:05.
Back in the saddle
try this one in use from the late 20's into the immediate post WW2 period I think
try this one in use from the late 20's into the immediate post WW2 period I think
Obviously firing on double banked cylinders today!!
yes & yes
Quite an odd one - I came across it purely by chance and realised I must have driven past it every working day for 8 years without knowing it was an airfield at one point. Civilian but used for military purposes in WW2
yes & yes
Quite an odd one - I came across it purely by chance and realised I must have driven past it every working day for 8 years without knowing it was an airfield at one point. Civilian but used for military purposes in WW2