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Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:28 pm
by F102A
Some Kodachrome A10's shot at Woodbridge/ Bentwaters in 1985. Comments welcome.
A10 80195 by
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A10 80 195WR by
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A10 x 2 by
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A10 WR80195 by
TF102A, on Flickr
A10 WR 81998 by
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A10 WR 79221 by
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A10 WR 80169 by
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Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:32 pm
by Thunderbolt II
Beautiful! Thanks for posting
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:33 pm
by Victor5
Excellent! Many thanks
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:37 pm
by 3Greens
Can hear them whistling up. Brilliant set, scanned up really well.. K25?
thanks for posting
3Greens
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:10 pm
by Jammo
Ahh they were the days, cheers for posting, lovely job
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 8:58 pm
by ciaranchef
Made my day, a stunning set of pictures, my absolute fave in the best looking paint scheme she has worn, Ciaran
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:54 pm
by TankBuster
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
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 4:57 am
by paddyboy
Wonderful shots
Do we miss those beasties or what
Thanks for posting
Cheers
Paddyboy
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 6:13 am
by LTFT5
Great shots,
Miss them whistling over Donna Nook.
Andy
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Tue May 20, 2014 9:42 am
by david14
Excellent set - those were the days!
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:18 am
by Maurits37
Awesome shots!
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:21 am
by brewerybod
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 !!
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 6:21 am
by kjshaw01
Wonderful stuff, don't you just hate progress and defence cuts!!!
Kev
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:10 am
by Frank the Dog
Excellent post, great planes, great camo
Many thanks for sharing !
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:13 pm
by Everglades
Fabulous, so busy then with A10s in the sky daily!!
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 12:20 pm
by Mustang531
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.
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:41 pm
by Fibrous Freddie
Up by the church?
Cracking images from a great spot.
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:24 pm
by LimaHotel01
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.
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:38 pm
by F3
Which squadron is that please? Not familiar with either the fin band colour or the symbol it contains
Re: Some of my Woodbridge/Bentwater A10 in 1985.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:52 pm
by willroney
@f3 - I think that's the 510TFS, 81TFW.