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Upper Heyford Aug.1970


Paul J

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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!!

 

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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.

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HH-3E Jolly Green Giant. 64-14716

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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>>>)

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C-130E 63-7799. Another on site was 63-7808.

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CF-104G. One of a pair 104776 and 104813. Nice bare metla and very pale grey/ white wings. Nice!!!!!

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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

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Taxiing out to display Rothmans Team Stampe G-AWIW

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Spitfire  P7350.

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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.

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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.

 

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Latinbear said:

Nice to see and thanks for sharing these.

 

Is that really a jacket and tie that you're wearing to the event and in August? Standards have clearly slipped judging by what we see worn at air shows these days!

 

Yes it is!!!In all ways as per your comment!! Y|ou hav emade me laugh  I can't concentrate now !!!! I went there with my ATC squadron. it was acoach trip and we had to be in civvies but smart... that was the prerequisite by order of the C.O !!  

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13 hours ago, Paul J said:

Yes it is!!!In all ways as per your comment!! Y|ou hav emade me laugh  I can't concentrate now !!!! I went there with my ATC squadron. it was acoach trip and we had to be in civvies but smart... that was the prerequisite by order of the C.O !!  

 

I'm impressed, I don't think I owned a jacket and tie at 17! If you were there with your ATC squadron then that makes a lot of sense but making you all suited and booted in August seems a little unkind.

 

What a great day out it must have been as indeed any of the open days in the 1970s would have been. 

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On ‎19‎/‎12‎/‎2017 at 10:25 AM, Latinbear said:

you all suited and booted in August seems a little unkind.

 

 

 

That would still have been better than those itchy thick ATC uniforms ;). I hated them.

 

Martin

 

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