Jim Meads Lightning Photo

[olimeads]

Hi
Does anybody have a Hi-Res copy of my grandfathers photo?
I would ask him but he still resides in the land of film.

Cheers
Oli
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9892/jimmeadspq3.jpg

[Tim McLelland]

If you find a decent copy then you deserve a reward! I tried to find one but it seems to have drifted into history. It appears in various books and all over the internet but as it keeps getting recycled the quality deteriorates more and more. Pity - as the original must be a beauty.

[olimeads]

Success, i have just been told that my grandfather is coming down to visit tomorrow for my parents. i will give him a quick call, as i believe he keeps a stock of original copies.

Cheers all:ok:

[air pig]

I was just lucky enough to meet the pilot of the Lightning, Goerge Aird, who when he retired used to fly the BAe Mosquito. Even managed to get a sniff at the atmoshere within the cockpit, wonderful!!

Air pig

[doubleu-anker]

"Even managed to get a sniff at the atmoshere within the cockpit, wonderful!!"

I would have thought it may have recked of "brown adrenalin", if it was the Lightning, or what was left of it, you were referring to. :}

[ExSp33db1rd]

The camera is a Micro-Press 4"x5" a copy of the Speed Graphic - an example of which I still have tucked away - somewhere, along with a Sanderson half-plate,

[Nige321]

I have a 12Mb scan from an original print, signed by George Aird and Jim Meads. PM with your email, I'll send it over...!

Nige:ok:

[Lightning Mate]

"I would have thought it may have recked of "brown adrenalin", if it was the Lightning"

Don't be silly old chap!

We were the very height of cool in the sixties - ask the girls in Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Fife, Cyprus, Singapore, and Germany.

LM:ok:

[lightningmate]

Not to mention Anglesey :)

lm

[brakedwell]

Don't be silly old chap!

We were the very height of cool in the sixties - ask the girls in Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Fife, Cyprus, Singapore, and Germany.

LM

You aircrew all same, with big tickers and small prickers and pay by cheque ! :}:}

Not to mention Anglesey

So you knew the Harbour Master's daughter too !!!!

[Herod]

She was only a Harbour Master's daughter, but she knew all the buoys.

[Lightning Mate]

Hello brakedwell.

"You aircrew all same, with big tickers and small prickers and pay by cheque"

You forgot the big watch and big mouth bit.....

LM :ok:

[brakedwell]

Big ticker ? :}

[Mandator]

I think the picture is available from Mirror Syndication International (www.mirrorpix.com); the negative number may be MP_0018484.