As is the way of things, I was looking for something else completely different when I found my four ring binder full of negatives from the early 1980s. I knew I had this binder I just could not remember where I had put it. All I have down for this is Old Warden Military Flying Day – 1981, I don’t know the exact date. It was the first airshow I went to, traveling down from Doncaster with a coach party, with my very first 35mm point and shoot camera. The other negatives I have before these are all in ‘110’ format and I have not worked out how to copy those, yet.
These images are scanned from 25 year old 35mm Fuji F-II and Kodak Safety Film 5035.
Brian
By: WebPilot - 31st December 2006 at 13:55
The Cambodian gunship is a french, Morane-Saulnier M.S.733 Alcyon
One of Lindsey Walton’s fleet, from the far distant days when the only Axis warbird available to UK airshow organisers and film makers was Lindsay’s “Me108”.
By: G-ASEA - 31st December 2006 at 13:41
The Cambodian gunship is a french, Morane-Saulnier M.S.733 Alcyon
By: Fouga23 - 31st December 2006 at 13:06
What’s the Cambodian Gunship? French type?
By: Propstrike - 31st December 2006 at 10:44
I remember that show, and have a similar set of photos, also taken with a 50mm lens, which was not ideal for the flying shots!
I wonder where Lindsay Walton’s Alycon is now? I think it mouldered at Booker and Cranfield for a while- ( Reminder to self, must get latest copy of Wrecks & Relics) It is odd how seemingly pristine aeroplanes lapse into dereliction so easily, a bit like the Gannet which was flying not so very long ago.
The Anson, now with Air Atlantique, was then owned by Michael Fraser
( British Midland Capt) who had found it in Ireland. Very soon after this picture was taken, it sheared a bolt and suffered an undercarriage collapse at Andrewsfield.
The Varsity was one of the biggest visitors to touch the grass at Old Warden, but Frank Tallman’s Movie-maker B25 also did a touch/go in 74 (ish) and I think the Plane Sailing Catalina has done the same.
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December 31, 2006 at 10:25 am