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International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln
12 May 2018 17:59 #2
by Peter Kirk
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Replied by Peter Kirk on topic International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln
I suspect all the funding went on the memorial itself. Hopefully it will evolve.
I personally, being a big kid, would love to see a turret mock-up that you could operate and shoot at a computer generated target. I dare say a mock-up of a bomb-aimers position with a similar set-up would be politically incorrect - unless it was over a bombing range
I personally, being a big kid, would love to see a turret mock-up that you could operate and shoot at a computer generated target. I dare say a mock-up of a bomb-aimers position with a similar set-up would be politically incorrect - unless it was over a bombing range
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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09 Jul 2020 12:13 #6
by Peter Kirk
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Replied by Peter Kirk on topic International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln
Not being able to visit the centre, even before the crisis, I have found the digital archive to be one of the best I have come across. The scanned and photographed document and artefacts are a great resource and even include a low level shot of a practice bombing run!
The main praise is for the digitisation of all those aircrew log books. As a source of information they are invaluable, not only on a personal level for the aircrew member, but as an historical record alongside the Operations Records Books. From my own point of view, ranges, many also include details of the amount of practice bombing and firing crews carried out and luckily many include the range used. One pilot logbook covered a period assigned to A&AEE at Boscombe Down and the amount of testing over ranges was two or three times a day, and that was just one pilot!
LOGBOOKS
Sadly the supply of logbooks is finite and my weekly check on the IBCC website for new additions to the digital archive may one day fail to find new ones. I do hope that one day all existing log books can be scanned for historians and that includes all branches of flying and even civil aviation. It would be a shame if those in private collections never saw the light of day and worse, disposed of in the recycling by someone who doesn't understand their worth. Maybe when the ICCC and IFCC come into existence
The main praise is for the digitisation of all those aircrew log books. As a source of information they are invaluable, not only on a personal level for the aircrew member, but as an historical record alongside the Operations Records Books. From my own point of view, ranges, many also include details of the amount of practice bombing and firing crews carried out and luckily many include the range used. One pilot logbook covered a period assigned to A&AEE at Boscombe Down and the amount of testing over ranges was two or three times a day, and that was just one pilot!
LOGBOOKS
Sadly the supply of logbooks is finite and my weekly check on the IBCC website for new additions to the digital archive may one day fail to find new ones. I do hope that one day all existing log books can be scanned for historians and that includes all branches of flying and even civil aviation. It would be a shame if those in private collections never saw the light of day and worse, disposed of in the recycling by someone who doesn't understand their worth. Maybe when the ICCC and IFCC come into existence
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
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09 Jul 2020 13:01 - 09 Jul 2020 13:04 #7
by netcompsys
The latest IBCC Newsletter includes the following item:-
So they have had to pause digitising, but it has allowed them to catch up with the publishing .....
This thread is also relevent
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/r...gital-archive#158529
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kevin
Replied by netcompsys on topic International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln
Not being able to visit the centre, even before the crisis, I have found the digital archive to be one of the best I have come across. The scanned and photographed document and artefacts are a great resource and even include a low level shot of a practice bombing run!
The main praise is for the digitisation of all those aircrew log books. As a source of information they are invaluable, not only on a personal level for the aircrew member, but as an historical record alongside the Operations Records Books. From my own point of view, ranges, many also include details of the amount of practice bombing and firing crews carried out and luckily many include the range used. One pilot logbook covered a period assigned to A&AEE at Boscombe Down and the amount of testing over ranges was two or three times a day, and that was just one pilot!
LOGBOOKS
Sadly the supply of logbooks is finite and my weekly check on the IBCC website for new additions to the digital archive may one day fail to find new ones. I do hope that one day all existing log books can be scanned for historians and that includes all branches of flying and even civil aviation. It would be a shame if those in private collections never saw the light of day and worse, disposed of in the recycling by someone who doesn't understand their worth. Maybe when the ICCC and IFCC come into existence
The latest IBCC Newsletter includes the following item:-
Although during lockdown, we have not been able to digitise new collections or record oral history interviews, our staff and volunteers have been working to publish collections we have already preserved. We have been working from home adding metadata (descriptions and cataloguing information), describing logbooks, and transcribing items.
We have recorded 1123 oral history interviews. Almost 900 are now publicly available in the archive, and 775 of these have been transcribed. Over 170 logbooks have now been described and published.
Alessandro Pesaro, our Digital Archivist, has continued to work streamlining our archive’s search tools and all points of access for RAF stations are now linked to a unique page with contextual information:
From here, users can retrieve relevant Archive items, see the names in the Losses Database or explore related experiences such as evacuees, village life, prisoners of war etc. Well done Nigel Moore for outstanding research and editing work!
So they have had to pause digitising, but it has allowed them to catch up with the publishing .....
This thread is also relevent
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/r...gital-archive#158529
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kevin
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