Scanned slides

Speaking of HH-43… Hill AFB, Hill Aerospace Museum 12 July 2009 #4561:

Speaking of HH-43… Hill AFB, Hill Aerospace Museum 12 July 2009 #4561:

Thanks for the Info. 😉

Thanks for the Info. 😉

Are you involved at Bentwaters ?

I remember meeting a chap at Mildenhall many years ago, who gave me a CD of the history of Bentwaters.
He had compiled it over a number of years, with the help of ex-USAF personnel.

“Bentwaters, The Living Years” by Graham Haynes

Yes i help run the museum,my name is also Graham but not the one you met !!

Graham Haynes is the chairman of the Bentwaters Aviation Society which runs the museum,Graham as well as his CD on Bentwaters has also written a book called ‘Bentwaters & Woodbridge – An Illustrated History of the Twin Base Complex in East Anglia’
Although i’m biased i think its the best book available covering the two airfields 🙂

Are you involved at Bentwaters ?

I remember meeting a chap at Mildenhall many years ago, who gave me a CD of the history of Bentwaters.
He had compiled it over a number of years, with the help of ex-USAF personnel.

“Bentwaters, The Living Years” by Graham Haynes

Yes i help run the museum,my name is also Graham but not the one you met !!

Graham Haynes is the chairman of the Bentwaters Aviation Society which runs the museum,Graham as well as his CD on Bentwaters has also written a book called ‘Bentwaters & Woodbridge – An Illustrated History of the Twin Base Complex in East Anglia’
Although i’m biased i think its the best book available covering the two airfields 🙂

Are you involved at Bentwaters ?

I remember meeting a chap at Mildenhall many years ago, who gave me a CD of the history of Bentwaters.
He had compiled it over a number of years, with the help of ex-USAF personnel.

“Bentwaters, The Living Years” by Graham Haynes

I think you will find that Graham is a member here

Not scanned slides, but relevant to the Huskie trend:
HH43P fuselage in the dump at the PAF Museum in Karachi, 2007. No serial visible.

But the fins of 62-4553, 4556 and 4557 were alongside.

Oddly, 62-4556 is on display at the museum so the fins must have been changed.

…..Hope the chaps at Coventry are progressing well on restoring their Husky as they are great looking machine,wish we had one at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum as they were based at nearby Woodbridge as well.

Are you involved at Bentwaters ?

I remember meeting a chap at Mildenhall many years ago, who gave me a CD of the history of Bentwaters.
He had compiled it over a number of years, with the help of ex-USAF personnel.

“Bentwaters, The Living Years” by Graham Haynes

Ouch ! 😮

A scanned slide of the Huskies at Knappets yard Snailswell in 1976

Interesting to see the Husky. If I remember rightly, they used to start the
Wethersfield airshow off with a simulated bomb run, by a flight of F-100s.
Setting light to hay bales to simulate the strike. Which was then extinguished
by their fire service, with the help of a Husky.

Anyone else want to add some scans ?

The Husky in the photo 62-4533 was with the 40 ARRW at Upper Heyford from 1966 to 1973 then it went to Alconbury for storage until August 1974 when it went to a scrapyard at Snailwell near Newmarket in Suffolk.
(information from www.h43-huskie.info)

Hope the chaps at Coventry are progressing well on restoring their Husky as they are great looking machine,wish we had one at the Bentwaters Cold War Museum as they were based at nearby Woodbridge as well.

Interesting when you start looking at old slides 40 years later: the KC135 seems to have its port outer missing!
In fact there seems to be a gentleman in brown trousers taking a photo of it. Maybe he is on this forum!

Oooooo… Spooky :eek::D I wonder if they found it ?

Interesting when you start looking at old slides 40 years later: the KC135 seems to have its port outer missing!
In fact there seems to be a gentleman in brown trousers taking a photo of it. Maybe he is on this forum!

Interesting to see the Husky. If I remember rightly, they used to start the
Wethersfield airshow off with a simulated bomb run, by a flight of F-100s.
Setting light to hay bales to simulate the strike. Which was then extinguished
by their fire service, with the help of a Husky.

Anyone else want to add some scans ?

Prompted by Alan’s pictures, I scanned a few slides from Upper Heyford open day 14 June 1969. Note the excellent weather and excellent access to the aircraft.
C54M 44-9100 and VC47D 43-48913

C97G 52-2678

Phantom “VL-153” XT868

Vulcan XH534 and Victor XL165

KC135A 61-275

HH43B 62-4533

Indeed…

I was going through some old videos and putting them on DVD a couple of
months ago.

Including the last open days at Bentwaters and Alconbury. Where most of the
aircraft are now pots and pans.

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be 😉

Thanks for posting these shots,its great to see what used to attend the Open Days back then.