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Good finds those links. Thanks for sharing them.
Forgot where I found this Nieuport.
Lord Flasheart: [about planes] Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.
Lieutenant George: How do you mean, sir? Do you mean, take her home at the week-end to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No! I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!
Captain Blackadder: I'm beginning to see why the suffragette movement are wanting the vote.
Lord Flasheart: Hey, hey! Any girl who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement gets my vote!
Never realised they had such photographic technology then. Could quite easily have been taken 50 years ago
Yes agreed. Must have been kept in an airtight box or something to help protect it.
When was colour film developed anyway?
geddit-developed!
oh never mind
I'm still awake!
That photo of the WWI black soldiers can look like a prize winner.
"His motor's conked out!"
"What's the differance, they're all Nazis!"
"Luke, shut up!"
"Fear the hook!"
"Oh.....I wanna fly."
"You mean the kind that go under water and fly up the stairs?"
"What you doing? Oh Nooooo!"
Wow! Those are really great. Good show finding them.
Yes, excellent quality on the images considering they are 90+ years old...
here is the link for article in the London Telegraph:
The first colour photographs from the German front line during World War One - Telegraph
"A good fighter pilot, like a good boxer, should have a knockout punch..... You will find one attack you prefer to all others. Work on it till you can do it to perfection... then use it whenever possible."
- Captain Reade Tilley, USAAF 7 Victories, WW-II -
Very interesting...
Didn't know they had that technology back then. Great pics!
"If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it's English, thank a soldier!"
Good pictures, thanks. Boy, they do really take you back in time though, huh? I wonder what pictures from the American Civil War would look like if they were in color, though?
"It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins, and it will be recorded at my expense." -Eamon de Valera.
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." -George S. Patton.
"I don't know what the effect of the men will have on the enemy, but, by god, they frighten me." -Arthur Wellesley.
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