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Bet that KC97L was making nice racket

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Fantastic memory jogger

Cheers Derek, great memories. Think I've some from that show to scan!

Thanks for comments

Hi Derek, was the Lightning a 'white tail' do you recall? Can't quite make it out from the pic. Many thanks, Pete

I was there, my first Greenham show ! Yes the lightning had a white tail and I have an out of focus overexposed slide of it somewhere............. will need to take a look in the loft.

Great memories Derek Really delving deep and brushing the cobwebs away on this set. Nice for us oldies to recall some top airframes of the time

Thanks for sharing

xkekeith wrote: ↑

Mon May 04, 2020 9:21 am

I was there, my first Greenham show ! Yes the lightning had a white tail and I have an out of focus overexposed slide of it somewhere............. will need to take a look in the loft.

Cheers xkekeith, delving through my own collection of overexposed and poorly focused negatives!

paddyboy wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:00 am

Bet that KC97L was making nice racket

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Great set and memories Derek
Indeed it did Paddy, we were camping under the end of the approach when it trundled into the circuit around 06.30 from memory before the station had opened. He stayed in the circuit until the tower woke up and roared OTT our position under the approach

Hope you're staying well mate

3Greens

Rescued from the loft and scanned..... pre SLR camera and on Boots slide film

XP696 Lightning F3 226 OCU RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Superb set of images

Super add-on photo of the Lightning

Hello guys,I remember attending IAT mid 70`s and the traffic going in was horrendous ! We watched a Mosquito display going in and what I can remember there were a lot of US navy in attendance F14`s , Intruders and an AH-1 Cobra. It might have been 1975 but I can`t remember as I was a kid. Any one have photos please ?

xkekeith wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 9:26 pm

Rescued from the loft and scanned..... pre SLR camera and on Boots slide film

XP696 Lightning F3 226 OCU RAF by Keith Heywood, on Flickr

Cheers Keith, that has certainly jogged the old memory! Still yet to find my negs of this machine….Thanks, Pete