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Dear SDSAM Archivists, Your collection on Flickr represents probably the most complete and thorough set of historical aircraft images on the web. While it was frustrating that most of the images are tiny, it is refreshing to see that you are now posting higher resolution images. And the coverage of the Shorts products, my favorite manufacturer, and a historically important one, is a significant addition. However I can't help but notice that this latest set of uploads is scanned incorrectly, with all of the images appearing very dark. The excitement of finally seeing the Short 'boats uploaded to your collection, and at higher resolution, is indeed made bittersweet by this technical error. Any chance of re-scanning the Shorts images at the correct brightness? Keep up the good work, love your site!! Thanks.

Batman_60 Yes, we will eventually have to rescan these. If you send me an email at arenga@sdasm.org I can send you some color corrected images.

Thanks for the response, and glad to hear that you plan to make good on these great images.

What a cracking picture, full of smiling faces obviously quite happy with what they had achieved!

Don Bennett was war-time leader of Bomber Command's Pathfinder Force. More details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bennett

Bennett is the guy with the case and papers under his arm. Some great footage on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYtazEBQ1K8

The 'Mayo Composite' moments after a trial separation. The release mechanism for the S.20 upper long range mail plane was surprisingly complex. Both aircraft were unique, one of a kind articles, the S.21 being based on the S.23 Empire Flying Boat, but had a wider chine to support the weight of the upper aircraft.