Gliders Photos

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Glider]

Yesterday was my lucky day. The weather was perfect so we went to see the well known Just Jane. We got lucky when they brought her out of the hanger for the first time this year and did the first engine tests of the year. It wasn't advertised so it was simply luck.

Small point. They have two rear fuselage and this is the spare so they can do taxi runs which is important to raise money. The 'proper' fuselage is being restored to full airworthiness standards.

Close up of the two inboard engines

 

[Wurger]

 

[Glider]

One of the rear turret. Its interesting as its a twin 0.5 turret and you will notice that the centre Perspex panel is in place. On nearly all combat missions it was removed as the turret was big enough for the gunner could wear his parachute, so to bail out he simply dived out between the guns.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Probably getting ready for the big flypast on 6 May.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Glider]

Some from a slightly different era of combat.

 

[Airframes]

"It's only a flesh wound - come back here and I'll bite your kneecaps off !".

 

[fubar57]

Cool

 

[Glider]

Some from a slightly different era of combat.

 

[Gnomey]

Cool shot!

 

[Glider]

I have a new camera and am trying to set it up. These are a few of my first shots, room for improvement but things should get better.

 

[fubar57]

Very nice. What camera?

 

[Wurger]

 

[Glider]

Very nice. What camera?

OM1 Mk 2 with a 300mm F4, both are new to me. The 300 was far too long for this, so most of the shots were taken a quite a distance.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Glider]

A few more

 

[Glider]

As you can see we live on the edge of a village in Lincolnshire. I admit that this was taken early in the year.

 

[Wurger]