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Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets
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Steve, Have you checked to see if your pics are too large or in an unacceptable format?
Modern camera pics can be in the 2k range in width and most sites will barely allow 1600. And since size is an issue, some sites won't allow BMP images. You must convert them to PNGs or JPGs.
Somewhere on this site will be picture limitation info.
Alternately, you can use a site like Photobucket which will resize the pics automatically.
If you already did use a site like PB, ensure that you use the proper tags. The HTML tag doesn't work here I think. You should try the IMG one. If you did and I'm wrong, try using the other one!
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Modern camera pics can be in the 2k range in width and most sites will barely allow 1600. And since size is an issue, some sites won't allow BMP images. You must convert them to PNGs or JPGs.
Somewhere on this site will be picture limitation info.
Alternately, you can use a site like Photobucket which will resize the pics automatically.
If you already did use a site like PB, ensure that you use the proper tags. The HTML tag doesn't work here I think. You should try the IMG one. If you did and I'm wrong, try using the other one!
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OKEEDOKEE ! We will try again. Well figure it out somehow.
Jacket turned out pretty slick. Not too way overdone with patches front and rear. Only thing on sleeves is the American flag. If I put every patch from every assignment he had and every base he was assigned to, Id run out of space on the jacket. I mainly concentrated on his squadron command, a few other earlier squadrons and the aircraft type and missions he flew. ASW !
Wish full thinking but it would be nice if somebody made an action movie with NAVY aircraft other than fighters or attack types. Poor old Neptune bomber. Never got the true recognition it really deserved as the backbone of ASW during the cold war. Same goes for the Tracker that saw duty on carriers.
Jacket turned out pretty slick. Not too way overdone with patches front and rear. Only thing on sleeves is the American flag. If I put every patch from every assignment he had and every base he was assigned to, Id run out of space on the jacket. I mainly concentrated on his squadron command, a few other earlier squadrons and the aircraft type and missions he flew. ASW !
Wish full thinking but it would be nice if somebody made an action movie with NAVY aircraft other than fighters or attack types. Poor old Neptune bomber. Never got the true recognition it really deserved as the backbone of ASW during the cold war. Same goes for the Tracker that saw duty on carriers.
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I used to feel the same about ASW never really being represented. But the reality is that 8-10 hour flights over featureless ocean during the cold war isn't very dramatic in a movie sense (if you're lucky). We used to call it hours and hours of boredom punctuated with seconds of sheer terror. And there's not much to be gained by dramatizing just how many Soviet FBNS within launching distance of US cities we were actually tracking on any given day. (Answer - a lot.)
I don't know. I absolutely loved Hunt for Red October and think Red Storm Rising or some of the similar books could have captured the exciting moments in a Bedford Incident or Run Silent Run Deep sort of way.
That sub stuff is amazingly tense once you get to the endgame!
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That sub stuff is amazingly tense once you get to the endgame!
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Got an idea. I just e mailed my dad with the pics of the finished jacket and they went through ok. What if I forwarded that same email to a Lounge members e mail and they might have better luck to post the pics in this thread. Just a thought since its just e mail and not a privacy invasion.
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SteveZ I sent you a PM with some ideas on how to post the pics. I think, as Deacon211 stated, your best bet is going to be Photobucket.
We took first photos on a digital camera. Were going to try using our smart phone and try loading that. If that fails as well I will try the photo bucket. I sent Jim Wagner some pics of the jacket at his e mail address. Maybe he can use those pics to post up here for me. Just wanted you guys to see the jacket now without wasting time.
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Haven't received them yet. It's possible that my spam catcher caught it or the size exceeded what my ISP would let through. Try sending just one picture first and not all the pictures at once.
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For SteveZ:
Here are a couple of pictures Steve asked me to post for him and his comments.
Here are a couple of pictures Steve asked me to post for him and his comments.
Treetopflyer
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The jacket came out looking great!
I wore it for first time to a small diner outside NAS OCEANA and a retired NAVY CHIEF started a conversation about the Neptunes and that lasted a half an hour. Says he misses the smell of AVGAS and cleaning fluids when walking in the hanger each morning. I got the impression that he missed those good old days where pistons and props ruled the skys !!
Hope a few more here like the coat. THANKS TREETOPFLYER ! You still active ?
Hope a few more here like the coat. THANKS TREETOPFLYER ! You still active ?
Treetopflyer
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I am still active and about to retire in about a year and a half. I completely understand loving the smells associated with being in the hangar, on the flight line or flight deck. Even the aircraft have a distinct smell in them.
I recall recently on TV when a child commented that President Reagans 707 on display at the Reagan Library in California ' smelled like old people inside ' !! I nearly laughed till I cried !
Treetopflyer, In all honesty, my dad wanted to fly fighters or attack types in his early aviation years. Pop even logged time in the F6f Hellcat and the AD1 Skyraider trying to gain some hours but the Navy saw the Soviet submarine threat as a paramount problem in the late 40s and beyond . Dad had time in the Martin aircraft type at NAS Norfolk ( VP49 ) and even had time in the old Catalina at NAS Corpus Christi . ( circa 1950 )
Dad said that hours in those patrol aircraft pretty much pointed his career in ASW for years. I often wondered if he could have swung his flying time into the carrier borne Grumman S2 Trackers somehow. Dad said he would have loved being a ' tail hooker. ' Perhaps his aviation career would have a different ending with carrier time hours logged.
I thought the Grumman Tracker was so cool. Low and slow..... put put put put out of those small radials !
Treetopflyer, In all honesty, my dad wanted to fly fighters or attack types in his early aviation years. Pop even logged time in the F6f Hellcat and the AD1 Skyraider trying to gain some hours but the Navy saw the Soviet submarine threat as a paramount problem in the late 40s and beyond . Dad had time in the Martin aircraft type at NAS Norfolk ( VP49 ) and even had time in the old Catalina at NAS Corpus Christi . ( circa 1950 )
Dad said that hours in those patrol aircraft pretty much pointed his career in ASW for years. I often wondered if he could have swung his flying time into the carrier borne Grumman S2 Trackers somehow. Dad said he would have loved being a ' tail hooker. ' Perhaps his aviation career would have a different ending with carrier time hours logged.
I thought the Grumman Tracker was so cool. Low and slow..... put put put put out of those small radials !
