Golden Oldies 3

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Golden Oldies 3

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Jeff Hawke taxies in B25 Marvellous Milly at the Biggin Hill Battle of Britain Air Day in 1980
Image2020-11-06_17-29_0116 by John Chase, on Flickr


Team Aguilla at Fairford July 1989
Image2020-11-06_17-28_0114 by John Chase, on Flickr


Bitburg F15 Eagle at Biggin Hill 1988
Image2020-11-06_17-26_0113 by John Chase, on Flickr


Don Bullock in A26 Invader at Fairoaks Air Day 1980
Image2020-11-06_17-26_0112 by John Chase, on Flickr


Trident at Heathrow September 1988
Image2020-11-06_17-21_0105 by John Chase, on Flickr


Wessex Commando Assault Yeovilton July 1985
Image2020-11-06_17-15_0092 by John Chase, on Flickr


Starfighters at Fairford 1985
Image2020-11-06_17-09_0083 by John Chase, on Flickr


Stefan Karwowski in Grumman Bearcat West Malling 1982
Image2020-11-06_17-30_0118 by John Chase, on Flickr


F16 demonstrator at Farnborough 88
Image2020-11-06_17-32_0120 by John Chase, on Flickr


Airbus and Bede at Farnborough 88
Image2020-11-06_17-34_0124 by John Chase, on Flickr


Cyprus Airways 707 Heathrow 1988
Image2020-11-06_17-45_0143 by John Chase, on Flickr


SR71 Blackbird at Farnborough 1988
Image2020-11-06_17-46_0144 by John Chase, on Flickr


Buccaneer at Biggin Hill 1983
Image2020-11-06_17-51_0158 by John Chase, on Flickr


Treble 1 Phantom Greenham 1983
Image2020-11-06_17-52_0160 by John Chase, on Flickr


Hawker Formation at Dunsfold Families Day 1986
Image2020-11-06_17-57_0168 by John Chase, on Flickr


Lovely Vulcan take off at Greenham Common '77
Imagevulcan IAT 77 by John Chase, on Flickr


Unique pairing of Northwest Orient liners at North Weald 86
ImageNorhtwestOrient-747-DC3 by John Chase, on Flickr


Lighting at Mildenhall 86 for the air defence segment of the show.
Imagelightning by John Chase, on Flickr


The fabulous G91s of Frecce Tricolori at Greenham Common 1981
Imagefreccetricolori by John Chase, on Flickr.


Unique F100 Super Sabre at Fairford 87
ImageF100 Super Sabre by John Chase, on Flickr.
ImageAVIATION JULY 2018_10689 by John Chase, on Flickr. Fairy Gannet Biggin Hill 88
ImagePatrouile de France Biggin Hill september 1980 by John Chase, on Flickr. La Patrouille de France at Biggin Hill Battle of Britain Air Day 1979
ImagePatrouile de France Biggin Hill september 1980 by John Chase, on Flickr. Don Bullock in A26 at Biggin Hill 1979
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A lovely selection of memories in there John, Blackbird at Farnborough looks very menacing, both that and the Airbus FBW would be Farnborough 1986 though.

Also the Wessexes I believe would be earlier than 1988 at Yeovilton. I saw them in the assault in 1984, not sure if they were used after that year?

Lovely stuff though, look forward to more.
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Some fantastic stuff!

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Some lovely shots here, great post.

The Don Bullock A-26 accident was 1980, so your Invader shot is earlier than noted here, btw.

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Sorry about the captions folks. Have been hurriedly scanning stuff during a house move. Some slides have dates , others don't. The A26 Invader was taken I think in August 1980 (not as previously mentioned) 1981, at the marvellous little mini show at Fairoaks in Surrey.There were to my knowledge only two Fairoaks shows , the other being 1981. Jim Maitland ran a number of shows in 1980, each one with a little commemorative stamped programme and I managed to collect them all despite never getting too Sunderland ! The B25 is very poignant as this was towards the end of the show when everything , as we know, went horribly wrong. The slides were shot on Orwo film and I overexposed them rather badly. The scanning has enabled me to recover these treasures and tweet them, so they don't look too bad. I do have the A26 out too somewhere. The Wessex shot is from 1985 at Yeovilton, when I did a tour of western shows, to see the last season of The Vikings F104s. Terrific show at St Mawgan where the Buccaneers , trying to get round rules and regulations, planned an exercise over St Mawgan and brought a four ship in for a few runs before landing . The stars were however the Vikings...what a superb team.

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No need to apologise, the images are the priority and I have to say some of those have come out pretty darn good, especially shot on Orwo.

I'd love to have those Wessexes in my collection, cracking F-100 shot as well (that was Fairford 1997 - USAF 50th tribute).
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Fabulous selection John..

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An excellent collection 👏👏 - many thanks for taking the time to scan and post.

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Keep these coming. I'm absolutely loving these memories. Especially the star fighters at Fairford.. Anyone remember the sneak pass on the Saturday. Went transonic if I remember rightly
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Fantastic selection of photos.
Those German Starfighters bring back some memories of that show!

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Great collection. Love the SR-71 with the people in the background coming out to see it. The Buccaneer was my pick till I saw the F-4. Was that taken from a photo bus?

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Yes ! , the SR71 shot , although not a dynamic flying shot, has all the atmosphere of Farnborough. The Blackbird , although a more familiar site towards the end of its career was always an event when flew at shows, and the people gathering outside the control tower demonstrate this. The Phantom was indeed taken from the bus.....I was at Farnborough 74 actually with my Dad and have a few colour slides which I'll share....blimey it was wet!!

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