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as in...printed in a certain black and white magazine in the issue after the UK story (sorry folks, inside joke..)

Caz, did you shoot any floatplanes whilst you were in Canada years ago?

wow, so if these specials c/s's fly for 5 years, you have chances enough to shoot the 70 years bird

Hey XM,
Just checked your site, great trip and great shots!
We didn't have that mucht time, we just spent two days on VI, but I surely would like to return there some day...

YW, and good hunting in january!

They will yeah, if I remember right, the Hurricane is basically airworthy, but Mr. Allen wants everything perfect! In fact near all the planes there are infosigns stating the actual percentage of completeness/authenticness... For instance, the P-51 is 100% genuine, it even has two crystal radio's th...

Heya Adz, here are some more, remember we flew late, so not much light anymore, especially with he dark background, so some shots are a bit blurry.... these are all from (I Think) D54, about 100 meters left of a Starbucks! (how convenient...) http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb141/Polecat555/Airli...

nope...unfortunately not, nice colours....
But as I said, I only spent a couple of hours inside the terminal, so I am not unhappy with my score anyway... saw loads of interisting stuff, next time I might try to spend a day near the runway, loads of stuff we do not get here obviously..
Grtz

I had no problems whatsoever with security, I spent about two hours on both legs, standing with a big telelens... As I wrote I only had problems with glass in wrong places... I finally found a good spot, don't know what gate (I think it was D54,the one KLM used for her MD-11 flights) It hada conveni...

it is indeed one of only six surviving Vought F7U-3 Cuttlas, serial 129554 ... quite a rare aircraft! Will look great by the time the've finished the restauration, no doubt... Picture was taken from outsidde the fence...

Nikon D-80 with the 4,5/5,6 70-300VR lens... Most shot at 200 iso and slight Lightroom maniupulation (slight color correction for the windows, bit of sharpening and bit of noise correction, that's all)

too bad the weather was lousy, nice pics nevertheless...quite few Sonderlackierungen, hope they wil keep these for a long time...

Heya Barca,
thnx, didn't do a lot there, but every shot is welcome....
Shall post a few more soon...

Have you been to DUS again lately?

Thats what I said , and to be overcomplete, it is a 1947 vintage RC3 Republic Seabee, Serial #987 and it is currently for sale for 122,900 dollar ! (http://www.raptoraviation.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

Grtz

Nice Pictures Jaah, quite a big Museum as well! Should go there some day..

Just to let the guys that responded know, I took some films with me that a friend sent me, and these lasted as not too many hardcore Kodachrome moments arose... (or maybe my switch to digital goes faster than I expected...)
But thanks for replying...