Personal GalleryDiscuss A Visit to the Imperial War Museum London in the OFF-Topic / Misc. forums; I think I remember that Biber Glider did'nt they trial it a in dry dock or something ?
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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
I gotta hand it to you Lee, you have a great eye for taking pictures! Great composition! These picture tours are great and help some of us that can't get there for now to be able to see the history. Good stuff!
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
Thanks Eric, I know the images are a bit on the big side which means scrolling about to view both them and the posts
but I have reduced them to 35% of the originals and have discovered
that this allows someone to download the image without loosing to much quality.
Im sorry if its a pain in the arse but I felt it was the lesser of two evils.
Anyhow to continue the tour I was unaware that anything was left of Rudolph Hess'es BF110.
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
"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
Thanks Erich Even walking around the exhibits
you can seen through various doors into the records areas
and it is huge to loose all of that in a fire would be an irreplacable disaster.
Next items on the vist
"walk this way please"
"if I could walk that way I'd see a doctor"
"Shut up you at the back & follow me"
(thinks! ("bleeding tourists"))
A couple of very poor shots of a HE162 & one of a V2 motor followed by a bit of info and a picture of a Gehiemschreiber cipher machine.
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
"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
I'm sure someone has asked this before but can I ask what camera you use? I'm looking for a smaller digital and there is no doubt that yours takes a heck of a good picture.
I think there are better ones out there now Glider
but I use an Olympus C770 camedia I wanted a big optical zoom but
not an SLR and this is a X10 so its about the equivelent of a 250mm.
it is very good for still life objects but I have found it's auto focus is
too slow for action stuff (about 1 sec) unless you pre-focus & allow
the subject to enter the field of focus. the metering is excellent all
my time exposures at night are on auto but there is loads of control latitude.
As I only paid £160 I am not too disapointed in its limitations
although it is fairly small its not a compact by any means.
A couple more exhibits one of an early Ack Ack gun cir 1914
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
"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
Wherever their bones may lie, the courage of heroes is consecrated in the hearts and engraved in the history of the free. Lt Col Honner DSO MC, 39th Commander speaking of the dead from the battle of Kokoda.
This is what I believe to be one of the most Important exhibits.
A MK V tank
I read this in an artical many years ago, Due to engine failiure the tank got stuck in no mans land,
to return to their lines, rather than risk the heavy small arms fire
the crew removed the spark plugs and hand wound it the 200yards
back to their trenches. It took four back breaking hours.
__________________ "Only thoses who lose freedom know it's true worth" Unknown French woman interviewed June 1944
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