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Last bits of sunlight as I perch on a pole-bench.
Oh I am so sick with a head cold, so it's nice to not be showing my face.
Controlling Reality.
Pecua generationes URBANUS complicated poetis casu dissimili,
promenades remplis brailler vide éducatif en peluche se balançaient,
απόκρυψη καταγγελίες παροδικότητα περιστέρια ασταμάτητα εξατμιστεί,
Übertreibung qualvollen verführerischen Elegien vernichten glamouröse Vortrags Vormundschaft Violinen,
иерархии отвлекающие слои, составляющие уединенные наготу миссии удивить,
sgerbydau dathliadau Pranksters crebachu llosgi gorymdeithiau angerdd,
gekwetter nerveus comateuze bochten careening wielen vermoeidheid,
dødelige presset highballing asfalt etternølere mumler sterk,
Tritura ordinata capta anni usque incurrit facies flere,
squeaking shimmering agnir mulching slátrara orchestrate,
рецептивна бесмислице Резултати интелектуалну жучни брзину,
sofistike mobiles saksofòn manyak eklat,
spontáineacht Toilteanach dlúth cúiseanna aithint dualgais intinn,
Nutnost prohlášení ověřování knowledgeableness POTRUBÍ je objevit,
persoane dispare subzistență înstrăinate afișează împotriviri neschimbătoare,
негативе цонфинементс дисхоноринг моћне разарања непосредности наруџби,
制裁を主張する確約はすぐに追い越して、暗黙的なパスを整形する.
Steve.D.Hammond.
One of many scenes within the control tower at The Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby . This tableau depicts life in the control room of the tower back in the day .
A short history of RAF East Kirkby taken from wikipedia --
Royal Air Force East Kirkby or more simply RAF East Kirkby is a former Royal Air Force station near the village of East Kirkby, south of Horncastle in Lincolnshire, just off the A155. The Greenwich meridian passes through the airfield.
RAF Station East Kirkby opened on 20 August 1943 as a Bomber Command Station and is situated not far from RAF Coningsby.
Stationed at East Kirkby were:
No. 57 Squadron RAF (5 Group) 27 August 1943 – 25 November 1945.
No. 630 Squadron RAF (5 Group) 15 November 1943 – 18 July 1945.
RAF East Kirkby served also as the headquarters of No 5/5 (Bomber) Group RAF in command of satellite stations at RAF Strubby, RAF Spilsby, RAF Hemswell and RAF Manby.
Operations
On 17 April 1945, near the end of the Second World War, a 57 Squadron Lancaster was being loaded with bombs when a fully armed 1,000 lb bomb was unintentionally dropped onto the tarmac. Because the bomb had had its fuse inserted it detonated, setting off the rest of the Lancaster's bombload. A massive explosion killed three airmen, injured 16 others, wrote off six other Lancasters beyond repair and badly damaged a nearby aircraft hangar.
The final wartime raid from East Kirkby was flown on 25 April 1945. In total, 212 operations were carried out during the war, from which 121 Lancasters did not return. Another 29 aircraft were lost due to operational crashes or accidents.
Post war
No 630 Squadron disbanded in July that year and its place was taken by No. 460 Squadron RAAF from RAF Binbrook. This squadron joined No. 57 for transfer to the Far East as part of Tiger Force. In the 1950s, the airfield was used by the United States Air Force for Air Rescue squadrons for four years. The station (code name Silksheen) closed in 1958. It was sold by the government in 1964.
Aircraft museum
The airfield became the site of broiler sheds, and is now home to an air museum, Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, which bought Just Jane, the gate guardian Lancaster bomber from RAF Scampton, which is regularly taxied out and stood with the four Rolls Royce Merlin XXIV engines running. Just Jane is being restored to flight by the museum.
NX611 was built by Austin Aero Ltd at their Cofton Hackett Works just south of Birmingham, rolling out of the Flight Shed on 16 April 1945, when it was put into storage, and in 1952, it was one of 54 Lancasters sold to the French Naval Air Arm, (L’Aeronavale) for £50,000 each as part of a 1951 NATO arrangement. It was designated WU-15 (Western Union). In June 1961,it joined Escadrille 9S (Surveillance), in Nouméa, New Caledonia.
On 15 April 1964, it accompanied Lancaster NX665 (WU-13), on delivery to the RNZAF, from New Caledonia to Auckland, New Zealand, returning to New Caledonia, with the crew of NX665. In 1965, its service with the L’Aeronavale over, due to spares shortages and maintenance problems, it was flown to England and on 13 May 1965 landed at Biggin Hill Airport, Kent, as part of the 'Historic Aircraft Preservation Society' Collection (HAPS). It had flown 2,330 hours. It had been registered as G - ASXX for its flight back to the UK and later stood as the gate guardian at RAF Scampton before being acquired by the museum owners Fred & Harold Panton
The control tower is believed to be haunted. The airfield was featured in a 1980s BBC series about World War II airfields. Much of the runway is still intact today but mainly used by local farmers as hard standing and by model aircraft enthusiasts. Occasional civilian light aircraft have landed on the remaining runway in recent years and the airfield still appears on Civil Aviation Maps as a diversion emergency landing location.
A memorial to the fallen can be found outside the main gate where the guard house once stood.
RAF East Kirkby was investigated by the Most Haunted team in 2003 for their third series on Living TV now called Sky Living. Yvette Fielding and her team investigated the museum and site for alleged paranormal activity. The episode was transmitted on Tuesday 7 October 2003 on Living TV. It was the first episode of the third series of the paranormal investigation show Most Haunted.
In 2008 the museum opened an unlicensed part-grass and part-concrete landing strip for visiting military and civil aircraft. No aircraft should land without contacting the owners first via the museum's website or telephone number. Air traffic control on flying display days is from RAF Coningsby and there is a six-mile "no fly" exclusion zone around East Kirkby on display days.
I was very interested in seeing the reference to RAF Manby , a base I spent some time at on a full runway and taxiway survey back in the very early 70s and in the winter months and it was very very cold and wet .
We stayed on site - 16 of us in one room - the transit dormitory . Saw a number of live bands in the NAAFI including Slade .
The lasting memory of Manby though is of me running along the centre of the taxiway to retrieve a survey target from the centre line with a Jet Provost following close behind me waiting for me to clear the obstruction - felt quite hairy at the time but I guess the pilot knew what he was doing - I hope !!!
( shot taken in very low light through a grille ! )
© Steve Kelley 2008
Shot on election evening November 4th 2008 - ABC News did their coverage from Times Square, New York City (NYC). This is a shot of the ABC News studios used for the election coverage and one of the cameras. Has an Orwellian "1984" feel to it but not enough to title it as such.
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Please view on black & large:
Owned by: Browning-Ferris Industries/Allied Waste
Chassis: CCC
Body manufacturer: Unknown
Type of truck: Container Delivery
Additional notes: old BFI color schem
Location of photo: Asset Nations
For these images I shot a roll of Fujifilm Superia 400 through my Pentax P3, then re spooled the film back into my Konica Pop.
The staged, Pentax shots were done to give a clear and focused background image, where as the candid Konica shots were done to add a sense of unorganised chaos to the top image.
Air traffic control tower at the Melbourne airport. To get this photo required a little luck as I shot it from the passenger side of a moving car on the calder highway with a telelphoto lens zoomed as far as it could through the car window. It required some straightening and cropping but I love the layers of hills.
ISO 400 | 1/2500 sec | f/6.7 | 300mm
The Lovell Telescope
Jodrell Bank
The Transmissions Live from Jodrell Bank
for Sigur Ros
Macclesfield
England
UK
>The "Mark I" telescope, now known as the Lovell Telescope, was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world, 76.2 metres (250 ft) in diameter, when it was completed in 1957; it is now the third largest< (Wiki)
There were plenty of restaurants in the Battersea Power Station shopping centre, but many had long queues of people waiting for a table.
This is the control panel at the IJsselbrug, the bridge over the canalized river IJssel in IJsselstein, Holland. It gives the information about the traffic lights over the water. Which are burning and on which side, to prevent boats and yachts from having frontal collisions ;-) This bridge is still completely hand-operated, lucky me!