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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

nice set especially the Drakens

Hi Arnold

Well up to your usual standard there

Love those Drakens and the Gina, especially

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

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

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.

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.

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.

warthog56 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:19 pm

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

Great scans and subject matter - thank you Arnold

Darren

Liking the F-4D and Mirage IIIR

Some quality stuff there.

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!