Old show scans

These must have been taken on the practice Friday and the extra had gone tech on the show day.I attended most of the practice fridays but only went to the actual shows 2 or 3 times in the 90s.Maybe it was more shows as its quite a time ago and I keep remembering snippets of when I was there:rolleyes::eek::)Nigel Lamb,Lee proudfoot and Steve Johnson were the pilots in this trio with N.L in the extra.

nice , i didn’t remmember the lexus liveried one i only remmembered the pitts pair

Couple from the show at barton mentioned on the other page..

Were you on the airfield for this JP shot?
The only place (I can see) that the JP can be waiting to turn left onto a Runway and be on large concrete tiles is the end of Runway 33 and facing Easterly(ish). This would put the photographer on the airfield……..or a hell of a good lens.

If you click the link above and zoom in you can still see the line across the concrete marking the holding point, I placed the cross where the JP is sitting roughly so that would make the photographer’s position somewhere on the small concrete roadway towards the building. So yes he was on the airfield when the shot was taken.

Were you on the airfield for this JP shot?
The only place (I can see) that the JP can be waiting to turn left onto a Runway and be on large concrete tiles is the end of Runway 33 and facing Easterly(ish). This would put the photographer on the airfield……..or a hell of a good lens.

MR john .B
I hope you don`t mind me joining in,but when you mentioned that you like jp`s i remembered that i had one scanned on my computer(poor quality)it was taken somewhere around 1978 ish.

Nice shot, I’ve never been to Brawdy but that is where it was taken. See link for exact position of the JP.

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.880903&lon=-5.118819&z=17.4&r=0&src=msl

yey on a cine film site it is dated as 72

i feel either could be right although i’d favour 70 as a couple of years on i feel my memmories of it would have been stronger through being older !!

according to this it was 70 and an RAF show although as you say it could tie in with the 25 yrs thing !!

http://www.mediastorehouse.com/pictures_1624799/peeping-into-a-jet-engine.html

You are spot on. It was Heaton Park, it would have been 71 or 72. There were the usual static displays of cockpits and such, a few helicopters. In the Sky (Gawd this is digging way past the formatted part of my head!!) was poss. the Lightning, but I do remember some old helicopters, possibly a Bristol Sycamore? I think the BoB mem. flew past, and a Shack or Lanc.
In the sky also, was a WW2 Blimp, tethered.
I can’t remember the reason for the gathering, Burtonwood had a small show about the same time. If it was 1970, it could have been 25th anni. of the end of WW2?

thank you for that , i always wanted to learn a little more about that event

i know i went there and my only memmories are walking around the gardens , the lightning and getting on the bus home

as i was only about six

i would love to see photo’s of the event but i presume most are lost as i have found little on the internet or localy

it would be intresting to find out which lightning and markings it was in for a painting project !!

Nice shots JB.

Thanks for a bit more of a clue on the JP Mk4, XF 382 and Beefyboy, its good to hear from you again….Cheers..JB:)

i would have only been ten then !!

although around that time i have memmories of being taken there although the only aircraft i remember was the yak i think the story went ” it was captured and the russians denied it existed

another memmory of around those years ( early seventies ) was either a millitary tattoo or a small air display over a local large park ( heaton park ) where the main attraction was an english electric lightning !!

You are spot on. It was Heaton Park, it would have been 71 or 72. There were the usual static displays of cockpits and such, a few helicopters. In the Sky (Gawd this is digging way past the formatted part of my head!!) was poss. the Lightning, but I do remember some old helicopters, possibly a Bristol Sycamore? I think the BoB mem. flew past, and a Shack or Lanc.
In the sky also, was a WW2 Blimp, tethered.
I can’t remember the reason for the gathering, Burtonwood had a small show about the same time. If it was 1970, it could have been 25th anni. of the end of WW2?

Nice one Dogman…. that’s one our fleet of 4 JP’s – XP547 waiting there. I’m just trying to work out the angle of that shot to place it at Brawdy…. it’s not a viewpoint I’ve seen before? Drove all over the airfield in my time there, so maybe just a rusty brain – do you have any more info on this photo?

.Thanks for 1990 photos tornado man and do you remember the vulcan setting all the car alarms off going nearly vertical that day!!!?it was a laugh seeing everybody running off to sort them out.:)As Aretha said “Oh happy days”.:rolleyes::) Doesn’t that mustang just about say it all as to how the shows went.

do i ever remember all the car alarms going off ( all apart from mine i secretly hoped someone would nick it !! )

it wasn’t so much the car alarms going of so much as my ear hairs tickling as they vibrated happily

i’m sure HandS would throw an eppy nowadays !!

as you say happy days !!!
i have some more from barton and woodford when i get arround to scanning some

It’s a Mk4 from RAF Brawdy. Location could be RAF Chivenor or Brawdy.

Hi to JPVieira,Tornado64 and Dogman….Thanks for looking in and adding to the thread and thanks dogman for the J.P.photo,it looks like a Mk4 but could be wrong.Thanks for 1990 photos tornado man and do you remember the vulcan setting all the car alarms off going nearly vertical that day!!!?it was a laugh seeing everybody running off to sort them out.:)As Aretha said “Oh happy days”.:rolleyes::) Doesn’t that mustang just about say it all as to how the shows went.

j.p at RAF BRAWDY

MR john .B
I hope you don`t mind me joining in,but when you mentioned that you like jp`s i remembered that i had one scanned on my computer(poor quality)it was taken somewhere around 1978 ish.

some more shots from the same 1990 barton show

not brilliant as all i had at that time was a 50mm lens

but just captured something at least

My most favourite Barton day was the “Auster Fly-in”. circa 1974?? Anybody else remember it? I took dozens of photo’s, but Lord knows where they are now.
There was also an Anniversary fly in around the same time, 50th of the Lancashire Aero CLub I seem to recall.

i would have only been ten then !!

although around that time i have memmories of being taken there although the only aircraft i remember was the yak i think the story went ” it was captured and the russians denied it existed

another memmory of around those years ( early seventies ) was either a millitary tattoo or a small air display over a local large park ( heaton park ) where the main attraction was an english electric lightning !!

That is a great selection of aircrafts: thanks for sharing 🙂