May 19th, 1973. Spangdahlem open house

[Keflavik69]

Going through my logbook of 1973 I saw that I overlooked the open house of Spangdahlem that year. So now, a liitle bit more than 50 years ago, some pictures of that day where photographing was difficult with the public around the aircraft.

Spagdahlem 19 May 1973. Draken R AR-112 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. AH-1G 67-15787 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. CH-47A 66-19044 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. Draken T AT-151 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. F-4D 64-0959 SP 52TFW fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. Flamant 252 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. G-91 32-94 LeKG43 fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

Spangdahlem 19 May 1973. Mirage 3R 308 33-CV fc by arnold booy, on Flickr

I hope you found these images of interest.
Kind regards,
Arnold

[matt e]

nice set especially the Drakens

[paddyboy]

Hi Arnold

Well up to your usual standard there

Love those Drakens and the Gina, especially

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

[DanBeeden]

The G-91 is especially nice - something about that camo scheme with the dayglo on the drop tanks. Great shots.

[Mustang531]

Thanks Arnold, another great selection of shots you've provided. Nice to see the Flamant amongst them, plus the US Army choppers. Thanks for taking the time to put these up.

[warthog56]

Great selection there Arnold with tantalising glimpses of Belgian F104's ("Slivers"?), a German F104(?) nose just behind the GIna and is that a French F100 rear end beyond the Flamant? Heady days! Thank you.

[Supra]

As noted above, I find the background detail holds as much interest as the main subject. Another great trip down memory lane for the many among us that
didn't have a decent camera at the time, or didn't store the results as well as you have! Thanks for sharing these great shots.

[Keflavik69]

Great selection there Arnold with tantalising glimpses of Belgian F104's ("Slivers"?), a German F104(?) nose just behind the GIna and is that a French F100 rear end beyond the Flamant? Heady days! Thank you.

Thank you all very much for the nice comments on my pictures.
The Belgian F-104's and the French Mirage 3R in the background were all behind a big fence and I was unable to photograph them. The F-104 nose visible behind the G-91 was F-104G 25-75 of JaBoG31 while the aircraft visible behind the Flamant was Puma 1176/CUC of the ALAT. Both aircraft I did not photograph, most likely because there were people around them continually.
Kind regards,
Arnold

[Knife 04]

Great scans and subject matter - thank you Arnold

Darren

[F3]

Liking the F-4D and Mirage IIIR

[Herkchaser]

Some quality stuff there.

[ST24]

Brilliant stuff. Incredible to think that, despite their appearance the Drakens were new in Danish service and the Flamant would still be very much in operational!