Old Photos – 4

The dock yard is Norfolk, two of the buildings are still there on google earth, and the tank farm while gone is still visible by the marks left on the ground where the tanks were.

Don’t those people lining up to go inside the Atlas realise it’s a one-way trip ? And what’s that cruise missile/stand-off bomb thingy in the foreground called ? looks like it’s ramjet powered.

The stand off missile in the foreground is an AGM-28 Hound Dog, took a bit of time with google but got there in the end.

Thanks, SJ. Names like Regulus and Matador were running around in my brain, but IIRC they were a generation earlier and ground launched.

Don’t those people lining up to go inside the Atlas realise it’s a one-way trip ? And what’s that cruise missile/stand-off bomb thingy in the foreground called ? looks like it’s ramjet powered.

Hounddog: x2 on some B-52s.

Love the enormous queue up the steps to get the tiniest glimpse into the B-47!

Wonderful shots, thanks for posting!

Don’t those people lining up to go inside the Atlas realise it’s a one-way trip ? And what’s that cruise missile/stand-off bomb thingy in the foreground called ? looks like it’s ramjet powered.

Some cracking stuff again CS. The spraycopter looks like Agusta Bell 47G G-ANZX of Helicopters Services Ltd. The vehicle in the background looks like a Bedford CA van. Could the crop be cabbages?

Wonderful set of slides, so evocative of the period…… It would appear G-ANZX was the first “goldfish bowl” (Whirlybirds) Bell 47G on the register.

Thanks for posting the photos, in particular the Burnelli CBY-3 N17N.
Interesting to compare with the British built Cunliffe-Owen Burnelli OA-1 G-AFMB which had a low set tailplane rather than the high set one on N17N
Lot of pictures of the OA-1 on my page here….
http://www.hampshireairfields.co.uk/co.html

Thanks for posting all of these great photos, some really great shots that capture a lot of history. Pictures 1 thru 4 are of the Burnelli CBY-3 Loadmaster at Friendship Airport, Baltimore, MD. This aircraft was restored at Beacon Field in Alexandria, VA. in October, November, and December 1959. Beacon Field was closed on Oct. 1st, 1959 but the unfinished CBY-3 remained there while work continued. On December 12th, 1959 Paul Zimmer was doing taxi tests when the aircraft lifted off the runway and he flew it to Friendship Airport Baltimore. Judging by the condition of the plane I would say your pictures are from early 1960 or later.

The rest of the pictures (5 thru 19) appear to be from the NAS Oceana Airshow open house. NAS Oceana didn’t host an open house in 1959 or 1961 so I would guess your pictures are from 1960, or possibly 1962. Among other things your pics show the Blue Angels F-11 Tigers, Thunderbirds F-100C Super Sabres, and the Canadian Golden Hawks F-86 Sabres.

The Thunderbirds started flying the F-100C in 1956.

The Golden Hawks were established in 1959.

The Blue Angels started flying the F-11 Tiger in 1957. In 1957 and 1958 they were the short-nose version and they had a yellow stripe on the nose. Your pictures are of the long-nose variant with no yellow stripe that were first used by the Blues in 1959. Since there was no open house at Oceana in 1959 (or 1961) I think the earliest possible date for your pics would be May 1960. NAS Oceana’s first Air Show Open House was held in May 1953 and it was traditionally held around Armed Forces Day.

Also seen in your pictures is Vulcan B.1 XH502, which was converted to B.1A standard in August 1962. It still appears to be B.1 configuration, so it is possible that the pictures could be from May 1962.

Thanks again for the great shots.

If you can find one showing the EC121 Warning Star more clearly that would be great

The one I really like is the one of the two colonels of the Confederate Ar Force. Love the sword(sabre)!

CS

All your photo’s are cracking stuff. Thankyou for posting them!

Some cracking stuff again CS. The spraycopter looks like Agusta Bell 47G G-ANZX of Helicopters Services Ltd. The vehicle in the background looks like a Bedford CA van. Could the crop be cabbages?

Right, here is the last of them 🙁

Any comments as to where, when and what about these slides will be gratefully received.
I have found some more of my father’s slides. I will post any aircraft related ones at a later date when I have sorted through them.