High res period images of WWII planes

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:28 pm

anybody got any? preferably in flight

I've got any amount of books, but my scanner is crap.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:34 pm

i got a hanger of em in my backyard...

Post by **tnf** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:36 pm

I have a piece of the windshield from a p-38.

Post by **Bdw3** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:12 pm

For lots of US Army Air Corps (USAF today) stuff:

http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=161&page=2
Go through the pages, there are links for High res versions of each photo.

[lvlshot]http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/ ... 9j-005.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/ ... 0S-004.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/ ... 9G-029.jpg[/lvlshot]
Get some!

[lvlshot]http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/ ... 9J-005.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/ ... 9G-006.jpg[/lvlshot]

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:15 pm

tnf wrote:I have a piece of the windshield from a p-38.

I have a compass gymball from a Blenheim that crashed near where I used to live in WWII, it has the identification number on it. And I found out how and why it crashed. All the crew were killed

Bdw3, you absolute fucking star. I could kiss you.

Post by **redfella** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:20 pm

That p-40 shot owns.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:24 pm

indeed, it's my new desktop.

Post by **plained** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:25 pm

mabe you can dig up some pics from these links man , i seen some potencial but i dunno

http://www.wcam.mb.ca/HTML/links.html

Post by **andyman** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:31 pm

I have to moniters that acts as one desktop, and I just want the wallpaper on one moniter. How do I do this?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:54 pm

say both resolutions are 1280x 1024

make an image that's 2560x1024 big, and put the image you want on the side of the monitor you want with the wallpaper, save it and then apply it as tiled or centred and voila!

Post by **andyman** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:08 pm

It looks like this right now, seems it just puts the same image up twice. The moniters split where the taskbar stops

[lvlshot]http://andyman82.com/files/desktop.jpg[/lvlshot]

Post by **dmmh** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:21 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:
tnf wrote:I have a piece of the windshield from a p-38.
I have a compass gymball from a Blenheim that crashed near where I used to live in WWII, it has the identification number on it.

shouldnt it be:

I have a compass gymball from a Blenheim that crashed in WWII near where I used to live, it has the identification number on it.

??

or did you live during WWII?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:26 pm

Oops yeah,

I should have put a comma after 'where I used to live'. Sorry

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:35 pm

heh, i got a clock from a wellington bomber, along with a few dials and switches n shit

my grandad used to fix them during the war and the garage used to be filled with the stuff

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:07 pm

@(pics in bdw3's post; especially the bottom one)

is it just me... or were 1940's cameras so bad that they make everything look like a painting?

Post by **redfella** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:19 pm

Dr_Watson wrote:@(pics in bdw3's post; especially the bottom one)

is it just me... or were 1940's cameras so bad that they make everything look like a painting?

To look like a painting is a bad thing? To me the last picture is beautiful.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:20 pm

losCHUNK wrote:my grandad used to fix them during the war and the garage used to be filled with the stuff

Are there any guages, dials and knobs and shit?

if there are could you possibly photograph them for me?

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:25 pm

phantasmagoria wrote:
losCHUNK wrote:my grandad used to fix them during the war and the garage used to be filled with the stuff
Are there any guages, dials and knobs and shit?

if there are could you possibly photograph them for me?

ill take a look in the garage on monday, i know there was clocks, some dials and an ammo tin, and a huge metal box with some writing on the side of it

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:05 pm

dials and guages would be perfect, :lub:

Post by **plained** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:13 pm

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:16 pm

that's not very nice

Post by **plained** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:16 pm

crushed

Post by **Hannibal** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:20 pm

If you haven't yet, visit the U.S. Air Force museum in Dayton, OH. If yer a military aircraft junkie, it doesn't get any better.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:23 pm

I'm in the UK, a week on wednesday I'm going to the Imperial War Museum in London, which is more tanks and artillery, but I may drop off at Duxford, which has a pretty substantial aircraft collection.