My first vist to AR was in 1975, my uncle was keen to see the brand spanking new F16 but I was won over more by the last UK show by the awesome Belgian "Slivers" F104 duo. Anyway, thats another story.
I didn't grace the Huntingdon airbase again until 1983 - very much last show of the year on Saturday 24 September. 1983 was not a good year for weather (heard that before?!) and I recall some beefy showers during the day. It was a fairly typical USF open house with good RAF & USAF participation along with a German Navy Atlantic and the Vikings F104 duo (reduced to a solo as one went u/s). Notable was the last appearance of a 15Sqn Buccaneer
, Brawdy Hunters and 50Sqn Vulcan, a very rare T43, still based at Mather AFB and 4 visiting F4Es from the 4TFW, Seymour Johnson. Home based RF4s and F5Es were pretty rare items in the flying too and the recently installed 95RS TR1s remained on the deck. Forgive the poor scans and lack of shots, I must dig out the slides too.Feel free to join in...Flying programme, contained within a Mildenhall type A5 calendar
'80s stalwart - Hunter F51 G-HUNT
601TCW CH53C, Sembach. Differed from the Woodbridge based HH53s by having no AAR probe
29Sqn Phantom FGR2
RF4C duo in lovely camo..
RF4C getting airborne
This Anson appeared at several shows..
Static MFG2 F104G
Another 80s display act - Gnat XS101/G-GNAT
No display complete without the Marlboro team..
One of the 2 static 4TFW F4Es, 2 more were far side
Back with us again this year, Spitfire 1a, AR213
New to me at this show, a T43A, befor ethey were called Gators..
Another newbie - a 58 MAS C12A
Excellent, thanks so much for that flyer, I did search but found nothing. Great, my memory aint so bad after all! 