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08-24-2008, 02:06 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| New member can help if he can. Aviation artist & historian in England, brand new to Internet and this forum! Takes a while to learn when you are 56 years old! Can help with recent questions regarding 625Sqn. R.A.F. and also Shell House raid/ Mosquito. Have until recently been lecturing & demonstrating on firearms and Special Forces skills (I'm ex Paratrooper) but had to give up due to disability! Got an extensive library and archives which I use for my paintings, profiles, writing and models. Was involved in 'hands-on' aviation and have met a number of WW2 personalities over the years, including RAF, RCAF, RAAF, USAAF and Luftwaffe. Have flown in or been in various WW2 aircraft and flown a couple myself. (And modern aircraft, and had privilege of being in and occaisionally flying in fast jets. Makes a change from jumping out of them for so many years!) Willing to share info via this forum or direct, but bear with me as I'm still learning how to use these new-fangled contraptions! Using an old laptop for this as my PC has decided to throw a 'wobbly' since I first went on line two days ago.! Just thought I'd introduce myself to everyone and let you all know what I'm up to. Recent and current artwork includes: Oil painting, Bristol Blenheims, France, 1941. Commisioned. '' '' '' Harrier GR3, Belieze, 1986. Commisioned. '' '' '' B24 Liberators, 1944, 389th BG. For own collection. '' '' '' P38J Lightning, 20th or 55th FG, 1944 (not started yet.) '' '' '' B17G 381st. BG, summer 1944. '' '' '' Various digitally produced profiles, some commisioned, some for my records. Article on producing 'Operation Carthage', painting for 50th anniversary of Shell House raid in 1945, prints signed by aircrew, SOE & Danish Resistance. Article & profiles for modellers on 21st. Panzer Div., Normandy, 1944. Oh! And just waiting to see if my novel is going to be published!! Thats it for now, I WILL reply to all messages, eventually, when I figure out how to use this site properly! All the best and' Blue Skies' to all air-minded folk everywhere, and heres hoping we keep the wings but get rid of the wars. From Airframes. |
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08-24-2008, 02:28 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| You're most welcome to the family Airframes, grab yourself a beer and ejoy the ride.... 
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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08-24-2008, 04:03 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
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| Welcome aboard, check the place out, sounds like youll fit right in 
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08-24-2008, 05:10 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Welcome to the forum, Airframes!! Sounds like you'll be a good fit!
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08-24-2008, 08:08 PM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Welcome to the site, Airframes. Only 56 ? A youngster ! Enjoy the site, I'm sure you'll fit right in. Charles
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08-24-2008, 08:17 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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08-24-2008, 08:20 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| Welcome!!!
__________________  Roman Susil Zlin, Czech Republic ...a friend of Joe Owsianik,So. Plainfield, NJ, a former left waist gunner from B-17G ''Tail End Charlie" from 2ndBG,20th Sqdn who was forced to bail out on Aug. 29th, 1944 over my country. |
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08-24-2008, 09:07 PM
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| "World Traveller"  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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__________________  "Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts" Sir Winston Churchill "To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today" Enscription on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-40) statue in London WW2 Talk: A WW2 Discussion Forum My Photo Collections on Flickr |
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08-24-2008, 09:13 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Thanks everybody for the welcome! |
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08-25-2008, 03:04 AM
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| Siggy Master  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| Welcome Airframes.Greetings from Poland.
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08-25-2008, 07:57 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Welcome to the forum Airframes!...from the Land down under..
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08-25-2008, 08:36 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Greetings from the Jersey Shore! TO
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08-25-2008, 12:43 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: billingham nr middlesbrough uk
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| hi there Airframes good to have another brit in here what years were you in the paras and which batallion if you dont mind sharing
__________________  "We're not easily frightened. Also we know how hard it is for an army to cross the Channel — the last little corporal to try it came a cropper. So don't threaten or dictate to us until you're marching up Whitehall! ...and even then we won't listen!" quote from B.O.B movie |
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08-30-2008, 05:41 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Heyfield, Victoria
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| Another welcome from down under!! Love aviation art myself
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08-30-2008, 08:52 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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