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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 18:54:18 GMT 12
From Admiral King down there was a huge anti British bias among senior USN officers, lesser so in the Army but it did exist there as noted below. There was a deal of support for this from the general US public so it was deeper seated than just trying to keep the Brits out of the beating of Japan. Two outstanding examples of the bias are, firstly the rejection of the idea of using British torpedoes to replace the infinitely inferior US types, although the fact that the commander of USN submarines operating out of Australia had previously been intimately involved in the design of the US torpedoes was probably a factor. Secondly the deliberate holding up of the Merlin engined Mustangs which could have been available up to a year earlier to escort the B-17's and B-24's to Berlin and back. Both these actions were extremely costly in US lives and material.
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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 15:54:07 GMT 12
NZ4044. A pretty crappy reproduction but originally a nice photo of a Cat on the water. I think these are always nice. Their second environment!
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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 15:49:32 GMT 12
A couple of Catalina shots from rotton row, wartime and post war 5 Sqdn codes. This one includes the Zero.
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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 15:08:28 GMT 12
Do many airline pilots come from the top dressing profession these days?
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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 9:14:56 GMT 12
Now a Qantas B-747 out of the same airport and once again almost immediate failure. It almost certainly isn't but the thought of sabotage has crossed my mind.
And there goes another blow to your B v A discussion Craig. ;D
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Post by kb on Nov 6, 2010 7:10:41 GMT 12
Peter, the photo with all the different types is really interesting. Most interesting of all are what appear to be two A-26's on the right hand side of the photo. As Les was there in 1943/44 these must be two of only four A-26's which served in the SWPA and which were the first operational A-26's. They were operated by 13th BS of the 3rd BG but were deemed to be unsuitable for operations in the area and so all A-26's went to Europe until right at the end of the war when only one BG became operational in the Pacific.
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Post by kb on Nov 4, 2010 17:21:27 GMT 12
Shorty, for small files first thing is to make sure that photo is saved as jpeg. I don't know whether you can do this in MSPaint but in photoshop I reduce the size to about 1200 by 800. This will usually give a file of about 50kb which fills the average computer screen as these display at 72dpi. Hope this helps
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Post by kb on Nov 3, 2010 17:34:24 GMT 12
Thnks for the commentZac. If youwant any detail for your model let me know as the original is a very large file and I can blow up parts of the image.
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Post by kb on Nov 3, 2010 9:28:10 GMT 12
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Post by kb on Nov 2, 2010 19:41:40 GMT 12
I've got no idea of what you are doing Al but I am thoroughly enjoying reading your comment, looking at the pictures and marvelling at the progress. Clearly Larry is a big help! ;D
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 21:19:25 GMT 12
I have got a film strip scanner but I quickly realised that with thousands of photos to copy it would take me years to copy them even if I gave up work! So I am actually photographing the slides and negatives which gives decent results and allows me to file the photos away so I can find them. Probably not quite as good as the scanner but incredibly quicker. Peter pointed out to me that he spends about 40 minutes per photo post processing and the results are certainly fantastic. I just would give up because I have lots of other interests. Basically I am spending no time post processing other than inverting negatives and adjusting the colour on the basis of getting the digital copies first and processing the ones that really interest me later.
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 21:00:54 GMT 12
It sounds really silly but I don't know. I am hoping that the Fieldair Dakota shot will tell us as I am sure the paint job will identify the date to one of our experts. I think it would have been in the 1980's because they were shot on negative film and I used slides until about early 1980's. I have been shooting photos for years without cataloguing them and now I am paying the price. I am actually scanning A-4 shots for Don and these are on the same film strips. In a belated attempt at organisation I am copying everything in a packet and noting accordingly. ;D
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 20:53:39 GMT 12
A Fieldair Dakota being stripped of it's paint and probably already out of service. Can anyone tell me the Registration? It would be nice if the topdresser experts here could put a date on it.
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 20:38:54 GMT 12
And now a shot from the front.
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 20:37:19 GMT 12
I have scanned a couple of Top Dressers. Beaver ZK-BXN First. The name on the nose is "Pukeokahu".
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 17:16:37 GMT 12
The seat is certainly a similar style to what I can see of the only Empire Boat seat photo I can find. (Half the seat from a narrow angle looking at the back of the seat.) I suspect that seat belts were not fitted in those boats so could it be that the seats were taken out and fitted to an RNZAF C-47 or two converted to airliners, hence the DC-3 comment and the seat belts.
Does anyone know when seat belts became mandatory in N.Z. Airliners?
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 16:50:16 GMT 12
Baz. The think the Meteor is ex RAF as well.
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 16:17:36 GMT 12
KN-K NZ4033 with KN-B and KN-D in the background.
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Post by kb on Nov 1, 2010 16:14:36 GMT 12
The other side of KN-L. Is the structure in the background the Control Tower?
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Post by kb on Oct 30, 2010 8:55:44 GMT 12
NZ4055 KN-L. The fin flash on the tail in the background is interesting. I think the serial is NZ4034.
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