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Various 'Varks from various venues

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Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by paddyboy » Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:55 am

Hi Peeps :P

This woeful little batch are all from negs, some of which were too far gone to rescue :'(

ImageMildenhall 1989 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageMildenhall 1990 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageMildenhall 1990 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageBoscombe Down 1990 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageIAT 1989 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageBoscombe Down 1990 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageBoscombe Down 1990 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageIAT 1989 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageIAT 1989 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageAlconbury 1987 by patrick ward, on Flickr

ImageAlconbury 1987 by patrick ward, on Flickr

Hope they prod a few memories, and hope they are worth a peek :)

As always, I am not cast iron sure on all those captions :whistle:

Best regards as always ;)

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by steved » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:12 am

Not as far gone as my slides. keep them coming, everyone a winner. :clap:

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by warferry » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:37 am

As usual great times remembered ,myself not many F111's snapped unfortunately.
Thanks Paddy keep on digging , my scanner needs a run , must get it going .

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by reheat module » Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:46 am

Cracking work as per, Paddyboy.
Lovely airframes, the first time I saw one at close hand, I couldn't get over the size of the beefy undercarriage!
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Post by Knife 04 » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:22 am

Another excellent post Mr W. Can never have enough F-111s - one of my favourites of all time

Not sure on the locations for the 1st 3 though mate - does not look like an 'Air Fete' back drop

Thanks as ever for posting - I may get a few from Bentwaters 88 later

All the best

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Post by roughcutter » Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:33 pm

Nowt wrong with them Pads :thumb: Miss the old Vark - ended long before it's time (impo) :(

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by mikee115 » Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:45 pm

My all time favourite! Nice to see a mix of F-111s.

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by Petepilot » Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:35 pm

Lovely set of swingers Paddy :Wow: . More from your archives please :thumbs: Pete

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Post by 1marshn30 » Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:36 pm

Great set Sir.Always glad to see UH Varks from my youth
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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by paddyboy » Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:25 am

Hi Peeps :P

Thanks, as always, for peeking and replying :thumbs:

Got a weeks holiday coming up, so should manage to squeeze some delving time in :whistle:

Best regards :thumb:

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by JONLITE06 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:09 am

Great pics Paddy! :thumb: Love the Ozzie F111!

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by TankBuster » Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:05 pm

Beautiful pictures of a beautiful aircraft!

I'll always remember my first close encounter with the 48th TFW flagship at a Mildenhall Air Fete with it's big white 'BF Goodrich' letters on those chunky rear tyres :cool:. And, that three ship flypast with the wings swept at different angles...Excellent!!!

Thanks for sharing these memories of happy days!

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Post by 3Greens » Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:34 pm

Lovely selection Paddyboy :thumbs: Always loved that verrry sleek airframe.
Brings back a great memory when a group of us were stood on the approach for Rwy21 Binbrook with 2 x swingers turning inbound over Grimsby for the approach. Some of my 'associates' didn't bother raising cameras as 'UH' birds were so common in the circuit.... but these two birds turned out to be 'NA' Nellis birds :lol:
Never heard so much 'language' :lol:

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by slogen51 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 5:45 pm

Great post.

Fond memories of swingers rattling the rib cage whilst launching from runway 27 at Heyford.

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by Figure8 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:30 pm

Loved the Swinger, nice set Paddy
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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by LTFT5 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:32 pm

Hi Paddyboy :P
Another great set.
Unfortunately I took the Swinger for granted, a great sight in the sky, sadly missed.

All the best
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Post by Sparky 119 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:45 pm

Took me right back to the many pleasurable hours spent at the 27 end at Ardley.

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by ST24 » Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:21 pm

LTFT5 wrote:Hi Paddyboy :P
Another great set.
Unfortunately I took the Swinger for granted, a great sight in the sky, sadly missed.

All the best
Andy
Same, the ' vark was always one of my faves..... :unsure:
Great stuff again PB, first one is Coningsby '89 I think, the second & third are Boscombe '90.

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by graham luxton » Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:54 pm

3Greens wrote:Lovely selection Paddyboy :thumbs: Always loved that verrry sleek airframe.
Brings back a great memory when a group of us were stood on the approach for Rwy21 Binbrook with 2 x swingers turning inbound over Grimsby for the approach. Some of my 'associates' didn't bother raising cameras as 'UH' birds were so common in the circuit.... but these two birds turned out to be 'NA' Nellis birds :lol:
Never heard so much 'language' :lol:

Thanks for posting
Keith
3Greens :thumb:
Probably 2 of these F-111A's Keith - 67-0058, 67-0062, 67-0076 and 67-0084 all NA/red deployed at Upper Heyford in March'76. I remember them being parked on the former "SAC ramp" in the South West area of the base. It was good to see some rare ones for a change on possibly the only occasion when NA F-111's deployed to Europe.

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Re: Various 'Varks from various venues

Post by paddyboy » Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:12 pm

Hi Peeps :P

Thanks yet again, for peeking and replying :thumbs:

As always, sorry if my captions are naff, venue wise :whistle:

I always admit that my 'book-keeping' was/is carp :blush:

Best regards :thumb:

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