Huns at the Hall, early Seventies

[32FIS]

In the early seventies the Huns (F-100D/F) of the 48 TFW operated out of RAF Mildenhall due to runway works at RAF Lakenheath. Here some pictures taken during their stay at RAF Mildenhall. Hope you enyou them.

Ton van Schaik

[3Greens]

Now that's what I call a post ! Only ever saw one up at the Finningley Battle of Britain display in '72 I believe. My first trip to the 'Heath they were up and running on F-4D.
Brilliant pics. thanks very much for posting
3Greens

[stevep22]

The Finningley F-100D was 1971 (56-3204)

Steve

[grimm31]

Amazing post, thanks for sharing.

[graham luxton]

Great post, remember it well - March - Aug'71. 40+ F-100's made the move making the south west area of the base 'Hun heaven! More F-100's boltholed to Wethersfield.

[Gary West]

My top of topic that

[quid21]

Interestingly they have their O- for obsolete tail serials just like some B-58 Hustlers I saw in a photo recently.

[bigcrow]

Brilliant post & great scans & rare.

[Scuba 11]

Huntastic post

[NickB]

Stunning jet & pics - thank you.

[paddyboy]

Now that is what I call a post

Superb pics of a real beast

Thanks for sharing

Best regards

Paddyboy

[MKR]

Superb post . Would have loved to have seen these flying .
Thanks for posting
Mike

[Arthur Tee]

Fantastic scans from a fantastic era!

Is picture number 2 from a different location? The hangars in the background don't look like any of those at the Hall...

Arthur

[Vulcanone]

I can't remember these but can remember the Danish jets at Binbrook in the early 80s and the FS jet at the last airshow in 87.

Can anyone remember the F-105s at Sculthorpe in 1978

And cool pics by the way.


Tim S

[3Greens]

Most certainly can Tim, ANG F105's (16th June'78) had the bonus at Sculthorpe of the remaining T33's, Mystere's and F100's retired out of the French AF.
Got the Danish F100's at Binbrook (17th Oct '78)

[LTFT5]

Missed these shots.
Simply stunning.
I was 15 when the Danish where at Binbrook in 1978, could not afford a camera then but these shots bring it all back.
Thanks for posting.
Andy

[Bilvo]

Brilliant post, fantastic photos

Interestingly they have their O- for obsolete tail serials just like some B-58 Hustlers I saw in a photo recently.

100% wrong, it is 0 (zero) for starters, not the letter 'O'!! Please see below for the correct explanation of the '0-' that appeared in front of the serial of some USAF aircraft in the 50's, 60's and 70's.

In the 1950s, many airplanes left over from the World War II era were still in service, exceeding their expected service lives of less than 10 years. In order to avoid potential confusion with later aircraft given the same tail number, these older aircraft had the number zero and a dash added in front of the tail number to indicate that they were over 10 years old. It was hoped that this would avoid confusion caused by duplication of tail numbers between two aircraft built over ten years apart. However, this was not always done, and it was not always possible uniquely to identify an aircraft by a knowledge of its tail number. This practice was eventually discontinued when people started referring to the number 0 as being a letter O, standing for Obsolete. The requirement for the 0- prefix was officially dropped on April 24, 1972.