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Hello Folks,

I am new to this site, in fact I joined today. I have a number of old monochrome photo's which I took in the 1960's in my 'Plane Spotting' years. Having moved home I decided to digitise them to save space and destroy the original albums. These pictures are basic, taken with a point and click Olympus by an unskilled but enthusiastic teenager!

MY QUESTION TO YOU is - Take a look at the one picture I uploaded for the Dh Hornet Moth G-ADNB. Is it worth my while loading others or are they just too amateur to bother you with?

Regards,

BobH

The answer to your question is a resounding yes, please continue!

You will see that this is the first picture we have for this airframe and I have not seen a photograph with a race number on the tail.

My personal preference would be to lightly edit, removing the worst of the dirt and scratch marks, crop to a 6 x 4 ratio and resize to 1024 x 683 pixels, all readily achievable in software such as Photoshop.

But don't be put off by this, upload further photos as the initial one if you so prefer.

Welcome to Airport-Data.com.

Malcolm

Admin

Many thanks. I will do my best to edit them - I use an oldish version of Paint Shop Pro but it does have a resize facility. I will do my best. I remember being at Baginton for the Kings Cup Air Race. It was the year that Coventry's own Percy Blamire won it in a Miles M65 Gemini, G-ALZG (breaking the tips off his prop as he dived over the finishing line) so It is possible that the Hornet Moth was a competitor, since it was a handicap race.

Bob

I think, these photos can be priceless, rare photos even if a quality is not so good.

I wish, I started this hobby much earlier and had photos of this kind.

Please upload all your old photos, I wish I still had all my old photos but sadly they were destroyed by an ex wife :

I sympathise Chris!

Dad enlisted on his 18th birthday in 1914 and served as a Rigger Aero with the Royal Flying Corp through WW1.

The family album contained many "String Bag" images taken in Blighty and behind the front in France.

He also served with the RAF in WW2 with the rank of Flight Sergeant Maintenance mainly in Europe and Iceland and used his Folding Kodak camera quite a lot.

Sadly Mum had a clear-out one day and ....... !

Malcolm.