'Channel Dash' Memorial - 22 September
- 24 September 2012 17:55192901This is one of my favourites, but can't do panoramic justice on here in the size allowed - you can go to this link and press L
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast/8009396510/
Been nice knowing you :) - 24 September 2012 18:00192902OMG!!!! Scotchie, that is just an AWESOME photo
- 24 September 2012 18:19192905What a photo, very portentious clouds there over the cliffs.
- 24 September 2012 19:01192914well worth clicking on the link for a staggering pic.
- 24 September 2012 20:20192923If the images are not here this time then you will find them on my website, address below. You will find them in the classic warbirds - 2 gallery.Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
- 24 September 2012 21:19192939Must say it is great.
- 25 September 2012 07:30192956Wow !! that is a great one Scotchie... Just fab!
Thanks also to Maggie and Simon for the pictures there. great stuff all round.
Fascinating from BarryW re the planes on the lawn!
Sorry Phil is still having trouble...will check it out now.
Couple of bits of further info Phil..trust me its quite simple once you get the hang of it.
A few basic do's and dont's...
You must transfer the code into the posting box.
You must NOT delete the code from the uploading box.
Dont delete anything in the process.
Have another few goes Phil as there's no harm done by trying. Hope you enjoyed yerself in the pub.
email: dover7@msn.com - 26 September 2012 11:25193084Ok, one last attempt -View | Delete
So far so good, this is the Fairey Swordfish Mk2 from the Royal Navy Historic Flight,LS362 was built in 1943.Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk - 26 September 2012 11:28193086And again - ok, where is it?Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
- 26 September 2012 11:32193087View
Supermarine Spitfire MkPRXIX. For those of you who love the song of the Merlin I'm sorry to dissapoint you but PS915 is powered by a Rolls Royce Griffon 58 (taken from a Avro Shackleton). PS915 was built in 1945.
More aviation on my website.Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk - 26 September 2012 11:38193088Beautiful sight that Phil.
Those Griffon powered Spits were quite something but from when the Spit was past its best years, there is nothing like those Merlins...... - 26 September 2012 11:45193089I quite agree Barry, have you ever seen or heard the MkPRXIX PS890, a French flown Spitfire with a Griffon fitted with contra-rotating prop (as in the Seafire 47) now there's a beast!Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
- 26 September 2012 14:38193111Wow! thats a cracking picture Phil..has the right level of spin on the propeller as well. Not easy to do when the thing is coming towards you at full speed..a cracker!
email: dover7@msn.com - 26 September 2012 15:21193126Thanks Paul, pleased you like it. The secret, if there is one, is to keep the shutter speed low, and not high as instinct dictates, because a high shutter speed will freeze the prop. This was taken at just 1/200th, then follow the subject (panning) as it go's by.
P.S the Swordfish was easier!!!!Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk - 26 September 2012 16:38193136I must say the Sea front at Dover looks nice,and great to walk along,again very good photos above.
- 26 September 2012 18:23193153Thanks Howard ( post 125)
I couldn't stay long but what I saw was quite wonderful. I can't add very much more except that it was a delight to see MTB 102 again.
Here a young lady from the ATC strikes an elegant pose as she studies aircraft design.
With great pride and attention to detail, Jack here is resplendant in his No. I service dress (tiddly suit). He's a killick (leading seaman) and the single chevron denotes he has over three years good conduct behind him (undetected crime to the cynical). The winter black-top cap (abandoned in the '50s) bears the wartime "HMS" tally. The collar, silk and lanyard are all in place and the winter-wear blue jersey was probably more comfortable had it been made out of steel wool (I was a sea cadet from back in the late '50s and I still can't wear wool next to my skin!).
Another victim of the '70s was the esoteric art of creasing the uniform trousers. Depending upon your height you had either five or seven horizontal creases which you kept sharp by turning the trousers inside-out and rubbing soap into the crease prior to dry ironing (illegal of course, but no-one took any notice of that). To prevent staining by the soap seeping through in wet weather the best thing to use was the old-fashioned carbolic type - that seemed to work.
..... and here, our local MP among the Royal Marines, perhaps recalling that a former leader of one of the Alliance parties, one Paddy Ashdown, retired from the Royal Marines as a Lt. Colonel. (sorry Charlie .... I couldn't let this one go!)
An excellent turn-out by all! - 26 September 2012 18:44193154Phil, It was well worth waiting for that photo of yours, well done, brilliant shot
Very interesting photos above John, I see that both ladies strike a similar elegant pose - 26 September 2012 21:38193180The Spitfire is flavour of the month...
10pm on Yesterday (Freeview ch.19) tonight...
"The Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past
In a programme from 2011, broadcaster and flying enthusiast John Sergeant celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Spitfire by documenting the history of the fighter plane, from its creation to its retirement. He also meets people whose lives have been in some way intimately related to it."Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 26 September 2012 22:06193184Heroes of the Skys at 8pm on Thursdays Channel 4 is quite good too - last week Douglas BaderBeen nice knowing you :)
- 28 September 2012 20:18193403Rather surprised to receive anonymous e-mails saying that my photographs of the spelling errors are malicious, offensive and litigious.
They asked for my personal details so that the public of Dover can contact me to express their anger at what I have done.
Does anyone see any offence in me posting my photographs? Having living and past relatives in the Royal Marines, Royal Navy and Fleet Air Arm itself, the last thing I want to do is show disrespect to the memory of our fallen heroes.
Please let me knowBeen nice knowing you :)
