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Post by oj on Jun 20, 2014 21:50:32 GMT 12
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Post by Ian Warren on Jun 23, 2014 15:07:32 GMT 12
Quite amazing the attempt at colour, I attempt that with some of my artwork, tweak it via the PC give it a slight wash, all in all good collection of photo's tho the war was finished Frame 24: "An observer in the tail tip of the English airship R33 on March 6, 1919 in Selby, England." you would feel a little venerable in war time.
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 23, 2014 15:38:31 GMT 12
Interesting images, alright. brilliant. The British '33' Class of airship, of which there were two were a direct copy, with a few alterations based on later German airship design, of the Zeppelin L 33 that New Zealander Alfred de Bathe Brandon chased about the sky on the night of 23/24th September 1916. R.33 was built by Armstrong Whitworth at Barlow, near Selby in Yorkshire - where this image was taken. her sister R.34 was built by the Beardmore ship builders at Inchinnan on the Clyde near Glasgow.
Picture 38 is interesting in that it shows a 1 1/2 Strutter taking off from HMAS Australia's gun turret platform. This picture, taken on 8 March 1918 shows Flt sub Lt Simonson flying Ship's Strutter N5644, while the Australia's sister ship HMS New Zealand stands guard. It is often quoted as being the first such take-off from a turret platform by a two-seater, but a Strutter took off from HMS Repulse's rear turret, the first capital ship with a turret flying off platform fitted, a few days earlier.
The Australian photographer Frank Hurley, who took the colour images of the AFC squadron was the same who accompanied Shackleton on his Antarctic expedition.
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