Some Airshow and museum Scans from the 1970s

Colin,

Is that the engineless portion of a DHA3 Drover I see on the rhs of your Lincoln slide? And, would it be the one now “resident” at Lasham?

G’day 😉

Cheer up Colin it’s not that bad in Billericay. 🙂

Great pics of Southend. They certainly bring back some memories.

Little bit too early for me, only got going myself in early eighties (Halpenny Green 1982 with a 110 camera, have a very grainy pic of G-FIRE) but dont you think the 80’s were probably the most exciting for historics and we probably wont see that time again?

Daz, correct about the Spit
John H, yes its RAY !
Daz, yes the CASA HE which ended up with Aces High at North Weald
Tom D 72, yes the scanner has a part to do slides and negs ( more negs coming tonight)
Eric Mc, I got the date wrong on Sally B it was 75 i think.

JDK, not got a clue about the model, may of been a Hampden.

flatbed scanners

I’ll throw in my 2 cents worth…

I bought a Canon Canoscan 4200 last August – works beautifully – holds an A4 on the flatbed and takes 35mm transparencies as well as 35mm neg film. No high ledges and the lid is double hinged so larger items can fit. I use this beast daily for profesional purposes and she hasn’t let me down.

Its software lets it do a whole lot but I just use it for images, and I generally colour balance and retouch manually in Photoshop.

Oh, and only $150 (CDN) retail.

James

Nice pics.I rember Old Warden when it was in black and white.But im in my early fiftys now

Lovely pics Colin. I guess all us forty-somethings are getting all nostalgic now!

Very nostalgic Colin! Have some similar in the loft but they are not as good as yours and also I don’t have the bottle to post snaps of myself as a 6 year old in big brown flares at Southend.
Cheers for posting mate

You have got to post the Southend ones, if you do I will try and dig out the one or two of me when I was about 6!

Hi Albert,

Many thanks for the info. I will look into getting one if they are not too expensive.

Yours aye

Tom

Are you sure all those photos are from 1973? I know for a fact that Sally B didn’t arrive in the UK until 1975.

God that, pic of Ray Hanna I had to read the caption twice to make sure it wasn’t Mark. Incredible.

John

Hi Colin,
Great pics! Very atmospheric of the days when a warbird was a rarity…

We’ve seen how you turned out, how did the Monogram kit you are holding in the shot above turn out? 😀

That Heinkel – methinks that’s a CASA-built one, but I’m not sure.

I am sure and it is.

The Mustang ‘Big Beautiful Doll’ is the machine restored by DAS at DX and was transported to the revitalised IWM Lambeth in the 1990s and hung between the other aircraft there. Seemed a bit daft to me, as BBD was a USAAF Duxford aircraft. (And no, it wasn’t the ‘original’ either.) Someone who cares about P-51Ds can give chapter and worse on serial etc.
Cheers!

Hi Colin,
You say you scanned the slides. Did you use an ordinary flatbed scanner or some other tool. I have tried scanning slides in the past on my HP scanner with no success. What is the secret?

Yours aye

Tom

Tom,
If you use a flatbed scanner, you have to have a special slide adaptor with it, which fits on the flatbed and has a backlit screen on it. I use an Epson 1200 Photo Perfection scanner with slide adapter, which works pretty well but I understand the Nikon Coolscan V is ‘the biz’.

Hi Colin,
You say you scanned the slides. Did you use an ordinary flatbed scanner or some other tool. I have tried scanning slides in the past on my HP scanner with no success. What is the secret?

Yours aye

Tom

Spitfire PR.XI PL983 at Old Warden, I’m guessing. (Before I looked at the rest of the pics! hehe)

Great pics, Colin, some nice close-ups. That Heinkel – methinks that’s a CASA-built one, but I’m not sure.

The yellow Spit is the prototype trainer, Tr.8 MT818/G-AIDN, and MH434 obvisouly still wearing her Adrian Swire markings.

Which Mustang is that in the “Doll” markings? :confused:

Hi Colin,

You’re a brave man posting those self-portraits. From the expression on your face, was it THAT bad? 😮 I daren’t post one today, but this is my most nostalgic shot – taken at Heathrow in August 1961 with Loftleidir DC-6 and BEA Viscounts and Vanguards behind!

Very good Colin. Just shows what has come and gone….nostalgia isn’t what it used to be 😉

Hi Albert,
I feel so privilaged to have seen it while it was here, I just cannot believe its 33 + years since the pictures were taken I dont feel any older But I have had a hair cut since then, proof below 🙂

ARLG, you got to go for it we need to see this stuff I got so many more to scan but its a bit of a time thing and I have things more pressing to do today.

Very good Colin. Just shows what has come and gone….nostalgia isn’t what it used to be 😉