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a seemingly scandalous self portrait (but not really) by Aryn taken back in March after I laughed at this portrait he sent me when I decided that we should chronicle our time spent apart (a lot of it is spent on the phone) photographically.

Pictured here is Go-Ahead London WVN45 on route 217, about to begin it’s journey towards Waltham Cross on the first day of operation with Go-Ahead London two weeks ago, which by sheer coincidence happened to be on the same day of my 24th birthday! I decided not to ride the route though due to my bias against TfL vehicles not introduced from their original operator, as the ex-First B9TLs were the only fleet appearing on the 217’s first day of GAL.

 

This route has been moving around a lot recently as it operated with Metroline until 2017, which then saw 217 passing to Sullivan Buses that run till August, when the entire company abolished itself from all TfL services, leading to the route getting temporarily awarded to Arriva on an emergency contract before shifting over once again to Go-Ahead, albeit only on a one year contract.

 

This makes 217 one of the TfL routes with the largest amount of bus companies in a short space of time with four in total, though I do believe route E10 currently holds this record with five operators running the route within less than ten years and I’m definitely sure the chances of it happening to another route at present are slim to none, due to former operators in London such as Tower Transit and Quality Line being sold.

 

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Operator Name: Smiths of Marple.

Fleet / Reg No: C666 LJR.

Chassis: Leyland Olympian.

Body: ECW H45/32F.

Location: Smiths of Marple Depot, New Mills, Derbyshire.

Date: 13th October, 2012.

Operators @ DC9, Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.

 

Winter 2016 Tour Setlist:

 

Rome

Control

Mission Creep

Nobody

Shape of Things

Evil

Blue Wave

Bring Me the Head

Cold Light

 

Encore:

Ancient

 

Downers Grove IL / Downtown

Summer Nights Classic Car Show

 

1969 Olds Cutlass W-31

Operators performed at Social Hall SF on April 8, 2016.

Operator- Arriva Midlands Telford

Operating Area- Shropshire, Staffordshire & Worcestershire

Make- Optare

Model- Versa

Chassie-

Fleet No- 2995

Reg- YJ09MKL

Location Seen- Telford Bus Station

Info- New to Arriva Midlands

Operator: HNRail

Livery: HNRail

No: 37405

Service: 0Z12 0929 Longsight Car. M.D. to Crewe

Location: Crewe

Operator : Saudi Arabian Airlines

Aircraft : Airbus 330-223

Registration : TC-OCF

Photo Date : 20.05.2016

Remarks : Operated by Onur Air

Operator: Arriva

Livery: Arriva

No: 150281

Service: 1K02 Llandudno Junction to Crewe

Location: Abergele & Pensarn

Huddersfield Bus 804 a Leyland Olympian NC Palatine (K4YCL) still in Yorkshire Traction livery, K-Line 615 a VDL Wright Cadet (YJ05PVO), Stotts Mercedes Plaxton Beaver (N276JUG) parked up and a Firstbus entering Huddersfield Bus Station on 18th April 2009.

Operator: National Express West Midlands

Vehicle Type: ADL Enviro 400 (E40D)

Fleet Number: 4830

Registration: BX61 LKV

Name: Freya Olivia

 

Pictured parked up in Dudley Bus Station before working a 7 service to Wollaston.

 

16/6/2023.

IAF Search-and-Rescue Unit 669 Special Operators train for Urban Warfare in Palmahim AFB

Photography: Adi Abu

 

לוחמי יחידה 669 באימון לוחמה בשטח בנוי בבסיס פלמחים

צילום: עדי עבו

An Eclipse is caught waiting at the lights at the bottom of Gloucester Road, next to the Prince of Wales pub on a sunny evening in July.

 

Operator: First West of England

Vehicle: Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

Reg: WX55 TYZ

Fleet No.: 66938

Location: Gloucester Road, Bristol

Route: 78: Thornbury - Bristol

Date: July 13, 2016

Photographer: Rosenfeld and Sons

 

Description: 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on December 7, 1916. Image of female switchboard operator at switchboard. Visible in image: female operator at switchboard, adjusting the toggle on the "Western Electric / COMPANY / 2RES. / FORIEGN BATTERY / 2 VOLT / GROUND / M.D.T. / ROWLER / MAG. / TALK / RING. / REV." box, with gauge above "MADE BY / WESTON / ELECTRICAL / INSTRUMENT / COMPANY / NEWARK / N.J. USA / NO.". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "5663 / 12/7/16 / 458-6 / 3 Rd from left Bottom / in frame / Busyman Story / Tel. Co. Mr. Carroll / Box 458".

 

Operator Name: Strawberry Bus.

Fleet / Reg No: 21 EK51 XXO.

Chassis: Dennis Dart 8.8m SLF.

Body: Plaxton Mini Pointer N29F.

Location: South Lancs Travel depot, Atherton, Lancashire.

Date: 21st October, 2012.

Operator : Red Bull - The Flying Bulls

Aircraft : Douglas DC-6B

Registration : N996DM

Photo Date : 24.08.2007

Remarks :

MacSimski repaired this film projector and was testing it with some of his leftover film reels from his days in cinematography.

Some manual adjustment was required to get the sound in sync with the pictures.

Something different when I saw from my last trip here. They're having a new tool for lifting some stuff, althought I still can see some of them still carrying the goods manually.

 

See where this picture was taken. [?]

Operator: Arriva

Livery: Arriva

No: 158824

Service: 1D14 Birmingham International to Holyhead

Location: Penmaenmawr

Operator: National Express - (West Midlands)

 

Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC (H43/30F)

 

Registration Number: SK68 MFU

 

Fleet Number: 69115 (Charlie)

Richfield telephone operator Jennie Rauch, circa 1930. For many years the Telephone Exchange was located in the old harness shop, on the SE corner of Streetsboro (303) and Broadview (176) roads. It was later moved to the house at 4690 Streetsboro Rd.

Operator: Central Connect

 

Make/Model: ADL E20D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 MMC

 

Registration Number: CE21 GAL

It's a synthesizer. It's a DAW controller. It's a hardware sequencer.

 

It has four knobs, a mini synth keyboard, and DAW transport controls. It features eight synthesizer models, eight samplers, and effects; analog audio I/O, microphone, speaker, FM radio, and MP3-encoder; accelerometer, USB 2.0 port, Li-Ion-battery, 1GB of memory, and a 320x160 OLED color display.

 

And, alas, it's still only a prototype. To be frank, I don't think this is even a functional prototype yet, because, if you look closely at the image, you'll note that the buttons are not fully cut out.

 

So, it came as no surprise that the good folks at the Teenage Engineering booth kept this device under a glass panel that protected the prototype from too many fingerprints and too much overly-eager fiddling-around. The OLED display did work, however, and a sound-demo was offered via headphones.

 

Those demo sounds clearly targeted the techno'esque and DJ crowd, and they had a whacky lo-fi charme, but they also promised a very decent synth engine underneath the hood, and I sincerely hope that the Operator-1 will ship eventually.

 

According to TE, a beta run of 100 pre-release units should be ready within about a year. Til then, you can read up on the Operator-1 on its product page, which also offers a few sound examples.

Manufacturer:

Operator: Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar

Type: T9 Two-seater Spitfire with immersive cockpit

Location: Biggin Hill general aviation airport

Comment: Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar in Kent, England is the world's largest Spitfire operator. They utilize rare, restored T9 Spitfires for passenger flights, offering enthusiasts the chance to take over the controls and perform victory rolls over the 'Battle of Britain' countryside.

463 Squadron wireless operator Frank Mottershead flew 31 operations from RAF Waddington during WWII. His pilot was my friend Don Huxtable. In an interview with me in Adelaide this afternoon for the International Bomber Command Centre's Digital Archive he told me of many of his adventures, including the time Hux beat up the Flying Scotsman train en route home after an operational diversion to Lossiemouth. Apparently the train driver was not best impressed!

Frank had a fairly eventful tour of operations. At least once a bomb hung up, and they needed to land back at base with it still aboard. On another occasion they were attacked by a Junkers Ju88 nightfighter, which the gunners managed to shoot down. I asked Frank what he could remember of that, and he said "trying to hang on", while the pilot put the great bomber through a violent corkscrew. On their last trip, a daylight - yes you read that right, a daylight - operation to Hamburg, there were Lancasters going down "everywhere." The Group Captain was there to meet them when they got back from that one to congratulate them on finishing their tour.

He's struggling with his failing eyesight these days but we both enjoyed digging into his memories.

Sadly Frank is now the only member of the crew left alive. Hux died in Sydney earlier this month.

 

Strobist: I wanted to backlight Frank using the fairly strong light through those curtains. It took a few goes to get the angle right (and I don't think we quite nailed it, but as he's 93 there was only so long I could fiddle). There's a speedlight in my usual white shoot-through brolly off to the right to throw some light on his face, triggered by a set of Hahnel Combis.

 

This was my eighteenth interview for the IBCC Archive.

 

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My Ten Best: This photo was placed in My Ten Best album on 09MAY16 because I was happy that I'd achieved almost exactly the image I'd had in my head when I first saw those white curtains in the room where I interviewed Frank. It's a simple concept but as soon as I turned this into b+w I knew I'd just about nailed it.

Fort Irwin, California, 29 January 2010

 

Excavator operator

 

Excavator operator Sapper Aaron Welch, from 2 Canadian Engineer Regiment, 23 Field Squadron loads sand onto a dump truck at Forward Operating Base (FOB) King on Exercise MAPLE GUARDIAN (Ex MG), Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC), California, U.S.A.

 

Task Force 1-10 (TF 1-10) is comprised of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group (1 RCR BG), the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), the Operational Mentor and Liaison Team (OMLT), and the National Support Element (NSE).

 

Approximately 3,700 soldiers are participating in the exercise, which includes supporting elements from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2 CMBG), and other units across Canada. Ex MG is a major military training event designed to confirm the readiness of TF 1-10, which will be deploying to Afghanistan in the spring of 2010.

 

Canadian Forces Image Number LK2010-005-006d

By Sgt Lance Wade with Combat Camera (36 CBG Public Affairs)

 

__________________________________Traduction

 

Fort Irwin, Californie, le 29 janvier 2010

 

Conducteur d’excavatrice

 

Le Sapeur Aaron Welch, conducteur d’excavatrice du 23e Escadron de campagne, 2e Régiment du génie de combat, remplit un tombereau de sable à la Base d’opérations avancée (BOA) King dans le cadre de l’exercice Maple Guardian (Ex MG) au Fort Irwin National Training Center (Centre d’entraînement national) situé en Californie, aux États-Unis.

La Force opérationnelle 1-10 (FO 1-10) est composée du 1er Bataillon du Groupement tactique, The Royal Canadian Regiment (GT 1 RCR), de l’équipe provinciale de reconstruction (EPR), de l’Équipe de liaison et de mentorat opérationnel (ELMO) et de l’élément de soutien national (ESN).

 

Environ 3 700 soldats prennent part à cet exercice qui inclut des éléments de soutien du 2e Groupe-brigade mécanisé du Canada (2 GBMC) et d’autres unités de partout au Canada. L’exercice Maple Guardian est un événement important d’entraînement militaire conçu pour confirmer la disponibilité opérationnelle de la FO 1-10, qui sera déployée en Afghanistan au printemps 2010.

 

Image des Forces canadiennes no LK2010-005-006d

Par le Sgt Lance Wade, Caméra de combat (Affaires publiques du 36 GBC)

Operator : Thai Airways International

Aircraft : Airbus A380-841

Registration : HS-TUE

Airport : London Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)

Photo Date : 12.07.2018

Remarks :

Operator: FinnHEMS

Aircraft: Eurocopter EC135 P2+

Registration: OH-HMY

C/n: 1079

Time & Location: 02.08.2025, Jämsä, Finland

Remarks: Ambulance helicopter for the WRC Secto Rally Finland 2025.

Operator : Mid East Jet

Aircraft : Boeing 737-74Q(BBJ)

Registration : N737CC

Photo Date : 26.12.2015

Remarks :

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