slogen51 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:31 am

Gxzr - pm sent - please be mindful of the 15 post rule. Thanks

It's been a while since I read the rules. I'd forgotten that one!!
Might have transgressed myself

Sparts99 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:45 pm

Nice, never tire of seeing Hunter pics.

Ditto!!

Great pictures and background info 3greens. I’ve said this countless times before, but for someone who would have been too young to appreciate it at the time, these pictures are a great way of trying to live vicariously through others’ experiences of Binbrook and the Lightning. I regularly drive th...

Mustang531 wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:40 am

I've tried to read the serial on the Vulcan, but can't, but I think it's a 44 Squadron machine, someone will know for definite.

I downloaded it, made it monochrome and turned up the contrast while turning down the brightness. Serial shows plainly as XH483

and where is that Spitfire now? Prestwick '67 https://live.staticflickr.com/7355/8721378028_d99c6953ff_b.jpg G-ALGT Type 373 Spitfire Mk LFXIV msn 6S.432263 by eLaReF , on Flickr Flew later as RM619 Duxford 75 https://live.staticflickr.com/8374/8581467190_88f61877c9_b.jpg G-ALGT G-ALGT Type 373 Spi...

I note that the RN example is carrying it's Paris Air Show number. Sorry, but that is the squadron code surely? XT865 doesn't show in Scrambles Show report for Le Bourget '71 https://www.scramble.nl/database/show-reports/france/le-bourget-1971 This was 1969 at Leuchars https://live.staticflickr.com...

I'm obviously an old git (Or becoming one)
I've seen all of those flying!
My first Airshow was RAF Turnhouse BofB show 1958
We always want to see pics like this, no matter how faded
But no camera for another 6 years or so.

Archer wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:23 pm

A bit of contrast... cocooned Connies at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

When were these taken?

wolfie138 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:10 pm

wow, thanks for sharing. i absolutely love the Connie, one of the most beautiful planes built. I'm currently modelling one in Blender

I'll have to have a look at 'Blender' !!

Wow, what a selection and even camo Connie's! Thanks for sharing. Paul A There were 29 EC-121R converted from various Navy types. By the time of my visit to MASDC in '74, 3 had been written off. The other 26 were in MASDC but despite a bus trip that allowed us to get off and run around, we never go...

Continuing my scanned prints – Graphic heavy! The fine vertical scratches on some were from using an HP6520 to feed and scan a pile of prints automatically. They were fed over a strip of glass around 5mm wide. However, a piece of paper dust on the glass from the prints caused the multiple fine scrat...

Having moved back to Scotland, from Somerset, Duxford isn't quite 'along the road' so much now, so a visit is a major exercise and my usual 'Legends' excuse is no longer available, so I doubt I will see this, but I do need to see that Electra!!
Thks for showing

It didn't stay long, leaving around 6:40 for Brize
I was driving along the main road past the airport and thought the lights on whatever was taking off were quite far apart!

Xiaotangshan 2001

3 Bladed Li-2

8205 Lisunov Li-2 c/n 18439709 by eLaReF, on Flickr

4 Bladed Li-2

3018(??) Lisunov Li-2 by eLaReF, on Flickr

eLaReF great photos of Ryan Field in its heyday, we arrived late as the light was going and I was saving my slide film for DM the following day ! One of the reasons I never used slides. I grew up using the back of the Ilford carton for my exposure guide so B&W was far more forgiving when I got it w...

The photos below are just from one airfield in 1974 Ryan Field, nr Tucson, AZ - Your last shot from there Aero American had bought a batch from MASDC and was slowly working through rebuilding them, although by that time, quite a few never got any further. The majority of those we saw that did escape...

Interesting shot of an ATC unit, one of my former work colleagues was in a Kent based Squadron, sometime during the Sixties, he told me that he'd been to Leconfield for a Summer camp. He told me that he remembered the Lightnings, one day there was a scramble. He also told me that an Anson turned up...

xkekeith wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:01 pm

The Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison Texas is closing today as the airport has not renewed their lease,

Aaah- That's the reason! I was worried it was financial.

I’m slowly catching up on the bought prints I appear to have forgotten to scan during my 10 year retirement plan Plus a couple of mine just to expand the selection https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53431206500_4cf2e6a048_h.jpg XA923 Handley Page Victor B.1 msn HP80/9 by eLaReF , on Flickr https://...

I was at ATC camp at Leconfield in July 63 and saw the new F.2s with 19 & 92 Squadrons and a lot of 74Sq F.1s that were in for servicing Minor problem - I didn't own a camera then!! :grr: :grr: :grr: https://live.staticflickr.com/7358/27072996350_9428d05b8e_b.jpg ATC - Leconfield 1963 by eLaReF , on...