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Hi. Its getting a trifle too cold to be modelling in my shed. Even with heating full on!! So to save a little energy I have confined my self to indoors and dug out my slide scanner and turned to my negative print films. Lats year i ran off all my slides and sevearl are here in this thread But for this term Something else from my archives. So, to kick off my pics from August 1970 at the Upper Heyford Open House. Not colour as you will see. Camera was a Kodak Instamatic 126. Cartridge tpe of film the wider one and not the narrow cartridge camera film sized at 110. One issue I recall with that camera was suffering parallax error. The view finder was off to one side so it was not easy to get your subject centred when taking the picture!! F-100. At the time of the show, all the tail codes were removed and soon after the F-111 arrived. A memorable moment of the show was when one Super sled did a very low pass down the runway at a break neck speed .... djort of the sound barrier I reckon.. Mighty fast!!! I recall logging around 70 F-100 that day. HH-3E Jolly Green Giant. 64-14716 HH-43 Huskie(?I do believe thats how they spelt it ??) There was another there serial 62-4533 which gave a fire fighting demo. ( Note the sexy white boots below the right hand fin... Those were the days>>>) C-130E 63-7799. Another on site was 63-7808. CF-104G. One of a pair 104776 and 104813. Nice bare metla and very pale grey/ white wings. Nice!!!!! Belgian TF-104G FC-06. Thats yours truly on the left( age 17) No idea who was "photo bombing"?? Anothe Belgian F-104 on display was FX-29 Taxiing out to display Rothmans Team Stampe G-AWIW Spitfire P7350. Jet Provost T.5 XW295. There were for T.4 there as well. I think the team was the Macaws Maybe wrong on that but the serials were XP679, XR651, '667 and 676. Finallly Hunter F.6. The two present were XF387 and XG161. Thats all I have photographically of that warm August day. Other types there were Chipmunk team with 6 of them but not all in the air, 4 x RF-4C, 2 x C-47 USAF, pair of Lightning F.6, Vulcan XM609. Thats all I have recorded and those numerous Super Sabres. Couldm't take very many pics because the film only had either 12 or 24 exposures. And I couldn't really afford that much on my pocket money back then. Oh, one other thing, the images were always squre so some of the above I have had to crop a bit as there is a lot of nothing in the lower half of the photo... as in the Hunter pic for example. Enjoy. And from time to time I#ll bung up some more black and white pics and some colour ones too all taken with the above mentioned camera and whe I progressed to the SLR world with my Zenit E. See ya for now.