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| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Solar eclipse through cloud Category: > Sky Description: Partial solar eclipse on 20th March 2015, Oxfordshire, UK |  |
 | lbford commented on the Other wallpaper 'Spring forward'!!!!. But don't forget to check first that it's the right date for your time zone! |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: J.R.Tolkien Category: > Cruise Ships Description: Schooner (with auxiliary diesel) used for passenger cruising in the Baltic and European waters. Seen here in The Solent, departing from Portsmouth. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Deperdussin Category: > Antique Description: A 1910 sports aircraft manufactured by Aeroplanes Deperdussin (later to become S.P.A.D). Successful in air races and the holder of several records in 1911. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Bristol F2b Category: > Antique Description: WW1 fighter reconnaissance aircraft. A successful aircraft that remained in service until the 1930s. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Two Historic Hawkers Category: > Other Description: A Hunter and a Hurricane in a (sort of) tribute flight at an air display. |  |
 | lbford commented on the Other wallpaper Wing Walking. Glad you like it, I've found another couple to put up. |
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| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Wing Walking Category: > Other Description: Breitling Wingwalkers team. Note that in this shot they are no longer in their safety harnesses as they prepare to get into the front cockpit for landing. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: HMS Lancaster Category: > Military Description: Type 23 Royal Navy frigate, passing the beach at Southsea on her way to Portsmouth. She is known as "The Queen's Frigate", the Duke of Lancaster being an honorary title of the Sovereign. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Avro Vulcan Category: > Military Description: That's one heck of a garden feature :-) It's really the Midland Air Museum near Coventry, the white shape behind it is the ballistic case of a WE177 nuclear weapon that it would have carried. |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet Category: > Antique Description: German WW2 rocket-propelled interceptor. It is the only rocket-propelled fighter aircraft ever to have been operational. (This was taken at RAF Cosford Air Museum, the aircraft behind it is an Avro Lincoln bomber) |  |
| lbford uploaded a new wallpaper. Title: SS Great Britain Category: > Other Description: First ocean-going screw-driven iron ship. Fully restored from a hulk, now on display as a museum ship in Bristol Harbour. The "water" in which it seems to be floating is a glass sheet- you can go beneath it and see the hull, screw, rudder etc. |  |
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