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I wonce put UB40 on one of the Gulf 1's when they came through the airport. E.

Hope Im not butting in over Aviador - have you windows paint on your system? easy to do a quick file size change. E.

YEP I have been hoping he would contact again as I would love to chat with AJ about the books I passed his way and the set I created and sold to him in his shop. E.

Just bumping this as no reply so far E.

Hiya Ray, I use LR5 its a great editing platform with some great tools, I use the masks in it a lot. It takes a bit of looking around for it as Lightroom will try to get you to subscribe to thier latest version but not as a purchased item but on a monthly thing. E80slad

Memories at Elmdon in the 80s of the maintenace crews dragging Bac 1-11's over to the Ground Running pan, and testing the engines, it seemed to create so much noise compared to simple take offs. Hppy Days E.

My first cam that i used to use at BHX or LHR was a Canon AE1 with a 70-210 zoom, had this for a few years, I must have taken thousands of pictures and had about 10 folders full of pics but alas they were distroyed. My first cam i used as a teeanger was my late mums 126 instametic cam, i used...

I have been looking through All your flickr nostalgia pics - mainly the 80s set, its amazing just so many memories of occasions and days when i was there also, infact it wouldn't supprise me if I was there the same time as you, dont suppose you remember a few of the airport regualars - I think...

Any news on this please. E.

Yep tried that route firstly over two years ago, but they did not seem interested seemed more bothered about thier rail ops. E.

A great new selection of pics love them - A bit of trivia behind the Highland Express 747 and the Birmingham Exec Gulf 1, when I worked at the airport in 88 doing the summer season there, after taking the pax off the Highland Exp Jumbo, I had the chance to fly with them upto Glassgow/Prestwick...

Folks - I am still digging away at this and am trying as hard as my old bones will let me, to try to get the right person with money to listening, I have been bash Twitter as hard as I can to try to get the likes of Richard Branson or Virgin to follow me so I can discuss this with them, so far...

That was quite an accomplishment for the airport - remember the distance being so narrow for a 747 - that in the pic above a departing Jumbo would have to be marshalled with a watcher on both sides near the wing tips, walking with the plane and tug till it cleared all obstructions, often being...

I worked for MAS in 88. E.

MAS ? E.

Im following you now on Flickr what an amzing collection of Brummy pictures and a lot from the exact same time i was there. E.

That is a Nice collection there :-))) E.

Or the Bolling Alley underneath it. E.

I did have most of the Dragon Wings Warbirds series - C-5, KC10 Great White scheme, KC-135, C-130s, SR71 etc but sold them as we needed some cash:( the manin die casts i have been looking for are a BA 1-11 400 srs ala G-BGKF etc as i was shown over this at BHX as a kid spotter, also a...

I heard somewhere that they did a small gig in a new(then) club called Beagles Flies again, Acocks Green, sure i read it somwhere? E.