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Subject: [Leica] For airplane fans- more Spitfires and Red Arrows
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun Sep 9 06:31:13 2007
References: <46E3E7F1.4060204@gmx.de>

Over The Fields

Douglas Sharp wrote:

> So, the sub-gallery with Spitfires and the Red Arrow display team is 
> finished.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/main.php?g2_itemId=98798
> 
> Terrible problems on all 3 days with changing light, bright sun, low 
> cloud and light mist, and 1 Spitfire pilot who refused to fly his Spit 
> so that you could see the cockpit too. All in all I'm quite pleased with 
> what came out - and particularly pleased with the performance of a 
> second hand CZ 3.5/200mm lens.
> The gallery is ordered with the 2 Spitfires first, then close ups (or 
> tight crops of the Red Arrows, and finally, the Red Arrows showing the 
> different display formations (the names of which I've forgotten.
> 
> A little history concerning Whitby and Spitfires:
> The first German bomber shot down over the UK crashed in flames close to 
> Whitby, the first German POW was taken prisoner in Whitby, and the 
> Spitfire  pilot who shot them down was Peter Townsend, later Princess 
> Margaret's boyfriend - not the member of The Who, he's Peter Townshend 
> with an "h".
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
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