Looked nice from Woodbridge river path!

Fabulous, just fabulous... I'd just passed my driving test and this was one of my first solo expeditions... (only from Norwich!)
Sculthorpe certainly had its moments.
These are such good images.
I have no photos so these are provoking splendid memories.
Thanks so much.
Freddie

Lovely. shots... The jet looks so different without tanks/stores etc.

Still scanning... Just a couple for those of us of a 'certain age'! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53611378137_a001921dfb_h.jpg F8 Crusader small file by Fibrous Freddie , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53612700970_8f1b3f23fe_h.jpg 74 Sqn Phantom by Fibrous Freddie , on Flickr I'...

Just the one Jaguar shot for now... have found some more slides from the 80's and 90's but have lost the 'buzz' for scanning. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53599514127_aa303372d6_h.jpg Jaguar copy by Fibrous Freddie , on Flickr It's not clear or sharp but it's got 'something'! Toodle pip Freddie

I've been provoked to a bit of research...

Meteor my well be EE246...
Me 262 may well be...
500210/Yellow 17 of 3./JG.7 at Lubeck in May 1945...
Toodle pip
Freddie

raptor9 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:55 pm

None of them wearing Pilots Wings, but top button undone on battle dress would seem to indicate that they were fighter pilots. Curious.

All rather talented and resourceful ground chaps on 616 Sqn, including my father...
Apparently it took a lot of 'nous' to keep the jets serviceable.

Part Timer wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:09 pm

This might be of interest FF.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/johntrath ... otostream/

https://www.key.aero/article/when-did-m ... tish-skies

Thanks... it looks the same jet.
My father was ground crew (radio etc.) on 616 Sqn.

I beieve that it was test flown at least once with RAF registration, and then off to the dominions?

Hi All Freddie here; been away for a while...Just found a 616 Sqn image, from my father... also added one more. Enjoy? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53500226105_1119b105b8_h.jpg _D1A7979 small file by Fibrous Freddie , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53088499146_fb94ba946d_h.jpg ...

I'm about half way through f-4 Phantom: A pilot's story, and it is very good so thanks forum. I wonder though is there a memoir from a Vietnam Phantom pilot that anyone can recommend? These two are both pretty good: The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot's Combat over Laos (David R. 'Buff' Honodel) ...

Up by the church?
Cracking images from a great spot.

Nimrod: Rise and Fall Authored by Tony Blackman. I've hundreds (yep, really!) of aviation books, but this one had somehow escaped me. It's not 'kick the tyres, light the fires... a bit of dogfighting... home for tea and medals'; however it is thorough, detailed and full of accounts and explanation o...

Thanks for putting these online...
It was an excellent few days. Great memories.

'C' and 'R' looked good crossing the River Deben.

Thanks for these. Just fabulous...
Great times...

Indeed, it's more trains... From 1973/4... Again, taken with an Instamatic. ... and I can remember types/locations... gosh it was fun... simple pleasures!!! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52907777515_9af5431d43_b.jpg Untitled (4) copy by Fibrous Freddie , on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com...

Freeman Lowell wrote: ↑

Tue May 16, 2023 6:58 pm

Freddie,
'you were lucky!'
Freeman

Well read...

Indeed I was!

... title says it all. Taken a while ago with an Instamatic camera whilst living in the luxury of... 't' shoebox in t' middle o' road'! Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you... All looks a bit different now. Makes a change from aeroplane images. Ho hum! http...

Although it's a superb aeroplane but I have many earlier loves... Dear All (or anybody who has persisted this far...) and got past the useless title... Oh dear me I've scanned a few more that I've found... ... and I was told in the seventies that I'd missed the 'best times' in aviation... :'( :'( I ...