1975 First months

[XR713]

Lovely to see the Varsity and KC-97s

[teeonefixer]

Superb set !!

[NickB]

Pure quality

[catbird]

Great shots Arnold, nice to spoke to you at leeuwarden AB
Catbird (Frank Zaal)

[slogen51]

I just love these shots Arnold

Phantom XV474 can be found still at Duxford but alas no longer in the Ground attack colours of 17Sqn

I see the KC-97 Serials are prefixed with a 0 - does that mean they were obsolete then.

PS I think it's brilliant that you have this historical archive but you can still be found chasing after F-35B at Marham!

[eLaReF]

The KC-97 serials are prefixed Zero- not Oh- where the zero means over 10 years old and was to prevent duplication as airframes started to last longer than 10 years
Unfortunately one author who was respected and should have known better, wrote that it was Oh for Obsolescent. That was then copied by all & sundry.
See http://www.oldwings.nl/content/o0/not_oh.htm for the correct story & documentation

If an aircraft was Obsolescent, It got a 'G' prefix so an obsolete -97 would have been a GKC-97G or similar

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Unit ... ion_system