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Monty Fowler

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #75 on: October 02, 2013, 10:07:58 AM »

Wow - now THAT level of detail is impressive.

Well, well worth the trip to NZ, I'd say!

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #76 on: October 02, 2013, 02:40:38 PM »

I assume the Study Group has studied this object. It appears in the shape of a fuselage with a stubbed port wing, rounded where one would expect to find the engine, empennage missing, but open aft. A dark area appears in the position of the Pilot's hatch. The rear of the apparent fuselage seems to be somewhat elevated and casting a shadow on the bottom.

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #77 on: October 02, 2013, 02:58:55 PM »


See below.

from the Wiki page re Norwich City Survivors' Shelter to give some idea as to scale: "Both Norwich City lifeboats washed ashore on Gardner. They were likely 26' in length and weighed 1800 pounds fully equipped."
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #78 on: October 02, 2013, 03:07:07 PM »

What is the cylindrical-looking object viewed end-on at the left edge of the frame right at the edge of the shrub/tree line?
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #79 on: October 02, 2013, 04:29:41 PM »

Hi BMangus

That is just a flaw in image

Tim can u provide the reference number for image ? 
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #80 on: October 02, 2013, 05:36:36 PM »



Tim can u provide the reference number for image ?

Richie, it's from frame #47, the last in the entire series which we ordered from the Museum (<$800, BTW). Resolution is approx. 15000 squared.


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Ric Gillespie

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #81 on: October 02, 2013, 06:12:00 PM »

Tim can u provide the reference number for image ?

Richie, Tim's "apparent fuselage" is in our _DSC347.  It's also in the July 18, 2012 GeoEye satellite image.  Like all of Tim's airplane parts it's made out of coral.  I've walked past it many times.
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #82 on: October 02, 2013, 06:46:30 PM »

Like all of Tim's airplane parts it's made out of coral.  I've walked past it many times.

Thank Goodness for an eye-witness account in which I can believe. But Ric, are you sure it is coral, and say, not lava? Have you had a sample analyzed?

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Ric Gillespie

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #83 on: October 02, 2013, 07:08:59 PM »

But Ric, are you sure it is coral, and say, not lava?

Quite sure. I suggest you read up on coral atolls. 
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #84 on: October 03, 2013, 04:39:26 AM »

Ric, or someone in the photos study group -- Can you indicate on the satellite image of the island where the image of the Norwich City lifeboat is located?

Thanks,

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Tim Collins

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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #85 on: October 03, 2013, 06:37:36 AM »

DSC0272 - the last of the '38 photos on Tighar's Flikr photo stream. On the near left hand shore just to the right of the scratch in the film. 
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #86 on: October 03, 2013, 07:35:41 AM »

This image shows where the lifeboat is in relation to the shipwreck - just where it should be.  BTW, what's that thing back in the bushes?
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #87 on: October 03, 2013, 07:51:25 AM »

BTW, what's that thing back in the bushes?

Here's a closer look.
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #88 on: October 03, 2013, 08:19:47 AM »

Looks like an airplane. Note fuselage, wing and engine (port) nacelle.

Just as camels in the sky, these fotos are very conducive to bunnies in the bushes.
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Re: 1938 Photos Study Group
« Reply #89 on: October 03, 2013, 08:29:01 AM »

Is that a trail in the bush as you look at it to the right?

I've been looking at that "trail", and the more I study it, it looks to me to be a flaw in the negative.

Any suggestions as to scale in that vicinity?  there's a pretty big boulder just off the beach below it, any guess as to the size?

As for who found it - that's Ric's credit, I just put words to it. Unless it's the breakthrough we've all been waiting for, then I'm all over it!
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