Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.

Post by **F102A** » Mon May 19, 2014 7:28 pm

Some Kodachrome A10's shot at Woodbridge/ Bentwaters in 1985. Comments welcome.

A10 80195 by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 80 195WR by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 x 2 by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 WR80195 by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 WR 81998 by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 WR 79221 by TF102A, on Flickr

A10 WR 80169 by TF102A, on Flickr

Post by **Thunderbolt II** » Mon May 19, 2014 7:32 pm

Beautiful! Thanks for posting

Victor5 · Post by **Victor5** » Mon May 19, 2014 7:33 pm

Excellent! Many thanks

Post by **3Greens** » Mon May 19, 2014 7:37 pm

Can hear them whistling up. Brilliant set, scanned up really well.. K25?
thanks for posting

3Greens

Jammo · Post by **Jammo** » Mon May 19, 2014 8:10 pm

Ahh they were the days, cheers for posting, lovely job

Post by **ciaranchef** » Mon May 19, 2014 8:58 pm

Made my day, a stunning set of pictures, my absolute fave in the best looking paint scheme she has worn, Ciaran

Post by **TankBuster** » Mon May 19, 2014 9:54 pm

Nice!

I see that some of these Hogs have the 'Batelle Device' (Gun Gas Diverter) fitted to the gun muzzles. This was a short lived contraption that was designed to divert the gun gasses away from being ingested by the engines.
The device never really worked very well, and many aircraft did suffer excessive vibrations caused by the gun gas diverters. Some even had cracks appear in the aircraft nose as a result

. Probably the reason why they were short lived?

TankBuster

Post by **paddyboy** » Tue May 20, 2014 4:57 am

Wonderful shots

Do we miss those beasties or what

Thanks for posting

Cheers

Paddyboy

Post by **LTFT5** » Tue May 20, 2014 6:13 am

Great shots,
Miss them whistling over Donna Nook.

Andy

Post by **david14** » Tue May 20, 2014 9:42 am

Excellent set - those were the days!

Post by **Maurits37** » Wed May 21, 2014 7:18 am

Awesome shots!

Post by **brewerybod** » Wed May 21, 2014 7:21 am

Wish we could get one to place on display at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum, that would be just awesome.

Great shots by the way, 'Commie corner' where the plane spotters/photographers used to gather is looking a bit overgrown now !!

Post by **kjshaw01** » Thu May 22, 2014 6:21 am

Wonderful stuff, don't you just hate progress and defence cuts!!!

Kev

Frank the Dog · Post by **Frank the Dog** » Fri May 23, 2014 9:10 am

Excellent post, great planes, great camo

Many thanks for sharing !

Post by **Everglades** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:13 pm

Fabulous, so busy then with A10s in the sky daily!!

Post by **Mustang531** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:20 pm

Great memories of seeing these, they seemed to get everywhere. I went on a couple of base tours at Bentwaters in the eighties, which were good. Thanks for sharing these with us.

Post by **Fibrous Freddie** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:41 pm

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

Post by **LimaHotel01** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:24 pm

Very nice set of photos. I have lots of happy memories of watching one of my favourite aircraft at one of my favourite airfields up in that corner.

One minor comment. The fifth photo isn't of 81-0998, which was never an 81TFW aircraft. I think it's 81- 0988.

Post by F3 » Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:38 pm

Which squadron is that please? Not familiar with either the fin band colour or the symbol it contains

Post by **willroney** » Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:52 pm

@f3 - I think that's the 510TFS, 81TFW.

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