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208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 15:39
by petermcleland
Some time ago I compiled a little booklet on this subject and I have now finished printing and distributing it to surviving squadron members. I have just made a Powerpoint slide show of the booklet and here is one of the 150 slides:-
http://www.petermcleland.com/echo/echorift.jpg
The slideshow is mainly about people and places and many of the pictures have been shown on this site. However, for anyone who is interested, I have uploaded the presentation (100 MBs) and it can be downloaded from here:-
http://www.petermcleland.com/powerpoint ... _Kenya.pps
The download will take at least 5 minutes and you must have Microsoft's Powerpoint to view it...A free download of Powerpoint Viewer can be obtained here:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... d2a8fd7485
Thanks for looking

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 15:58
by Rick Piper
Hi Peter
Brilliant stuff
I love the fact that you hve decent photos for almost every occasion
Regards
Rick
Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 16:12
by TSR2
I love those Peter! I remember the first time I flicked through your site as you experience the start of the jet age. This presentation is superb and makes me wish it was me! Thanks for sharing... again

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 16:45
by petermcleland
Thanks Rick and Ben...I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it...This powerpoint thing is new to me and here on my machine it plays a very nice CD track with the first 20 or so slides. However, I have not yet discovered how to export the music with the presentation

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 16:53
by TSR2
Hi Peter,
I think the trick is to burn the CD track as an wma file and then embed that into the presentation rather than copy from CD. Might be worth a try

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 17:03
by petermcleland
Ben Watson wrote:Hi Peter,
I think the trick is to burn the CD track as an wma file and then embed that into the presentation rather than copy from CD. Might be worth a try

Ben,
That is exactly what I did and works just fine, but only on my machine...It does not seem to stick with the file when I copy it away to somewhere else...Hang on, I will upload the wma file into the same folder as the presentation and see if that works
Edit...Yes! That works fine now

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 17:54
by clavel9
Great pictures.

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 19:07
by Garry Russell
Great pics Peter but too wide.....I'm not seeing the right hand side

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 19:12
by DaveB
Me neither mate
Is it just me or did the Venom look old even when it was new
ATB
DaveB

Re: 208 Squadron in Kenya...
Posted: 05 May 2010, 19:16
by Garry Russell
I think it was always old...bit like my granny..she looked like that from birth I think
