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During the 70’s and 80’s I went quite often to RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Here some scans from my slide collection. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Ton van Schaik

Awesome scans! Certainly hope you have some more from your trips?!

Wes...

Some real beauties there, especially that camo A-10

Hi
Would like to see more from your collection, as they are interesting as I did a 'base tour walk' (which was fascinating and I recommend anybody to do one) around the former RAF Bentwaters a few weeks back. It would be nice to see photos of the base with the aircraft there.
Thanks for posting
Trev

Superb !!

Great shots and fantastic quality - especially like the Huskie as never actually got to see one

Very interested in seeing any more

Cheers and thanks for posting

Darren

These bring the memories flooding back of action packed weekdays at those bases. Went to Bentwaters on one occasion when an alert was in progress and 15 F-4D's taxied down the runway a few seconds apart in a practice scramble.
The fence walks were another thing I remember, not only for the based aircraft parked near the wire but also for visitors, which were sometimes parked in the woods and required some leg work to see.

Wondering where the Huskie shot was taken? Although Woodbridge had a pair of HH-43's based, 24546 wasn't one of them. as it was assigned to Det.4, 40ARRW at Ramstein in the early '70's. It would be a very rare visitor to the UK indeed, if it really was photographed at Bent/Wood. Great to see though, where ever it was taken! Training call signs I remember were "Hinder", followed by two numbers while actual rescues may have been "Pedro" although I can't recall personally hearing it.
By the end of 1973 all the HH-43's in Europe had been withdrawn from Air Rescue operations.

great post,

cheers,
Graham

Excellent photos, well scanned. The F-4s are wonderful, and most interesting to see the HH-43.

Superb to see thanks very much posting them up

Fantastic

These threads are great! I was too young to remember the F-4s going by the house, but saw the F-111s and A-10s most days.

Thanks for taking the time to post!

Thanks for posting! What are you using to get the slides to the computer?

Cracking pics!!

My reply must have got lost in the ether

Stunning post, with some great shots and memories for those of us old enough to have been there

Not possible to pick a phave

You guessed it

Phantoms phorever

Thanks phor posting

Paddyboy

Superb post , interesting to see that the A-10's started off in grey camo .
Thanks for posting . Mike

Beautiful set Ton Always loved Bentwaters, although living under the approach to Binbrook it was quite an 'exodus' to get down there.
Got my dad to take me on my first visit on 31st August 1972 while on a family holiday further north on the Norfolk Broads - he enjoyed it too - our first aircraft that day ... R.Neth.AF Beaver S-8 !
My first trip once I got my own car was in 26-27 June 1975 logged 34 x F4Ds and also the arrival of the F16A demonstrator with accompanying RF4C on their European demo sales tour.
Thanks for the brilliant shots, of brilliant aircraft at a brilliant base

3Greens(Keith)

Ton

Check out the Bentwaters / Woodbridge Group on Flickr - sure they would like these on the group

Cheers

Darren

Excellent shots and great quality

Thank you for taking the time to share

You can see from the other comments, that a lot of FC'ers appreciate and really enjoy viewing the old shots

Cheers

Martin

Great quality and great aircraft, thanks for posting

Andy

Stunning collection of aircraft/memories never to be seen again,