hope you like the prop/background subject for some photos i took

 

Nice Love the second pic

 

Those pictures are awesome. Good work.

 

very nice

 

and another

 

especially like the one of vegas strip!stayed at bally's when i was there

 

Wow. all great pics.The different sunsets over the sea are a nice
reminder of far away hols

 

some amazing pics there mate

wiley

 

nice pics
martin

 

Nice powerful looking machine, how did you get it in front of that plane?

cool pics

 

Great photos mate ! Do you mind me asking about the grill on your WRX. It looks aftermarket - any idea where from !

 

nice photo

 

Great shot from a bye gone era.

These are along the same lines going back even further in time.





Taken at first light on the same day.

 

many thanks for all the comments, it is aftermarket and was £36 delivered :-) made by Konzept Automobiltechnik from eurosportgarage-uk on fleabay

 

If it's a pro background how did you get all the shadows etc...

I would love to get a Prop to get some decent shots of mine.

oh yeh and what size is it? and how are you supporting the backdrop?

 

it is a real plane mate, do you think it is a print on canvas?

 

The Matrix

the £36 was for the front grille..............not the Vulcan Backdrop

Shaun

 

greats phots mate, its pretty amazing to think that only 11 years seperated the Lancaster and the Vulcan (bit of spotter triv sorry :-))

 

I thought the Lancaster was a 4 engined version of the failed Avro Manchester from the mid 1930's early 1940's ..........

Overtaken by the Lincoln and then the Canberra..

A bit more than 11 years

Shaun

 

The first prototype Lancaster BT308 was assembled by Avro's experimental flight department at Manchester's Ringway Airport & made its first flight in January 1941.

The first RAF squadron to convert to the Lancaster was No. 44 Squadron RAF in early 1942.

Canada was a long term operator of the Lancaster, utilising modified aircraft in postwar maritime patrol, search and rescue and photo-reconnaissance roles until 1964. The last flight by the RCAF was flown on 4 July 1964 at the Calgary International Air Show.

My father trained Canadian aircrew in late 1941 to early 1943 before joining No. 101 Squadron RAF based at Ludford Magna in Lincolnshire. This was the only Squadron fitted with the Airborne Cigar (ABC) countermeasures equipment which was used to jam radio to German night fighters.



We are frequent visitors to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre to see their Lancaster & is where my pictures were taken. We donated some of my father's Lancaster related items to the museum & the Panton brothers often let us have some time to reflect in & around NX611 Just Jane when we visit.

Their brother Pilot Officer Christopher Panton was killed in a 433 Sqn (Canadian) Lancaster from RAF Skipton-on-Swale, having been shot down over Nuremberg on March 30/31 1944 (over 500 aircrew were shot down that night by nightfighters - more aircrew than the whole of the Battle of Britain).

This is my father's map of the route & nav log that his aircraft used for the same raid in which his Squadron lost 56 aircrew when 7 out of the 26 aircraft sent did not return.

 

yeah the Lancaster was Avro 683, FF 1941 and the Vulcan was Avro 698, FF 1952.

 

I'll get my coat

Shaun