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buffnut453
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As much as I love the AVG, I'm afraid my first love will always be the 112 Sqn Tomahawks and Kittyhawks.
Although I've seen these photos many times, I'd never noticed the Type C1 roundel under the wing of FR440 'GA-V'. Interesting detail for modellers!
As much as I love the AVG, I'm afraid my first love will always be the 112 Sqn Tomahawks and Kittyhawks.
Although I've seen these photos many times, I'd never noticed the Type C1 roundel under the wing of FR440 'GA-V'. Interesting detail for modellers!
fubar57
General
Good eye Mark. I was just drooling over the colour
Are they the originals?
fubar57
General
Not sure Jim. A reverse search brings up just four photos, all in colour and I think two of them are on Pinterest
I hear ya
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buffnut453
Captain
Jim, what do you mean by "the originals"? Are you asking if the photos are original, WW2-vintage colour images?
I mean, the ones that the Flying Tigers copied theirs from. I heard it was an RAF group in North Africa.
buffnut453
Captain
Yes, it was 112 Sqn that the Flying Tigers copied...but not these particular airframes. Initially, 112 was equipped with Tomahawks:
(Source: Wikipedia)
stug3
Staff Sergeant
I think they were probably kodachrome images which were very high quality. I may have seen them with the Life Magazine watermark/logo before too such as the pic below.
buffnut453
Captain
Yeah...concur on Kodachrome. They just have that rich colour that one always associates with that marvelous, but sadly defunct, film stock
Have any of you hear about Kodak as a company in Rochester, New York? Complete vertical integration. They made every thing there on a huge campus from the film to the tiniest screw for their cameras. There was a saying at one time that if you got a job with Kodak, you had a job for life. Sad how the mighty have fallen and with it the local economy.
Tracker
Senior Airman
Photos from "Small Brown Dog"
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As a Kodak retiree, it is sad. The thinkers and movers at the top (my opinion) got caught in the thinking of the 70s to expand into other areas and did not stay with core objective. Basic photography. The government and greedy competitors also killed the cow that gave the milk.
Tracker
Senior Airman
While not a sharks mouth, I think its a toothy grin.
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buffnut453
Captain
To call those "photographs" is stretching things slightly. Fun-looking (but totally impractical) computer-generated images, yes, but photos? Definitely not. That said, the bottom one looks to be superimposed on a background photo taken at Duxford. Certainly fun and entertaining, though.
Airframes
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I agree, it is very sad about Kodak.
I worked for Kodak Ltd in the UK, first as a technical advisor on professional and A/V photography, and then as a specialist rep in the Graphics Imaging Systems Division, being instrumental in the introduction of graphics process cameras, contact frames etc and their associated processors.
When made redundant at the end of 1991, I could see 'the writing on the wall', and even though the company in the UK and Europe were 'up to speed' (and remember that a Kodak Ltd employee invented digital photography !), I remarked to my then boss that if the company world-wide didn't get its act together, it probably wouldn't exist in 5 to 10 years time.
And now, what was a huge organisation, even just in the UK, with multiple, large premises, mainly in Hemel Hempstead, has been reduced to a single, small unit on an industrial estate, with the former 'high rise' head office, Kodak House, converted into apartments !
It was, as Jim noted, a company that provided a 'job for life', with entire families working there, and great facilities and employee benefits.
Although I regretted having to leave, I owe that company a lot, as they trained me well, paid me well, and gave me a good 'golden handshake' at the end.
And now, back to our scheduled programmes .................
I worked for Kodak Ltd in the UK, first as a technical advisor on professional and A/V photography, and then as a specialist rep in the Graphics Imaging Systems Division, being instrumental in the introduction of graphics process cameras, contact frames etc and their associated processors.
When made redundant at the end of 1991, I could see 'the writing on the wall', and even though the company in the UK and Europe were 'up to speed' (and remember that a Kodak Ltd employee invented digital photography !), I remarked to my then boss that if the company world-wide didn't get its act together, it probably wouldn't exist in 5 to 10 years time.
And now, what was a huge organisation, even just in the UK, with multiple, large premises, mainly in Hemel Hempstead, has been reduced to a single, small unit on an industrial estate, with the former 'high rise' head office, Kodak House, converted into apartments !
It was, as Jim noted, a company that provided a 'job for life', with entire families working there, and great facilities and employee benefits.
Although I regretted having to leave, I owe that company a lot, as they trained me well, paid me well, and gave me a good 'golden handshake' at the end.
And now, back to our scheduled programmes .................
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