Impressive lens quality…love the 3 Mustangs. Handheld, mono or tripod?

Wonderful photographs. They bring back memories of reading my father’s eagerly awaited issues of Flight Deck. Shiny paper and beautiful pictures. He also served with 703 Trials Squadron at Ford on Attackers,re the interesting if indistinct photo in this thread.

Looking critically at the Sea Vixen/condensation flash picture makes me think it may be a montage or photoshopped. It doesn’t quite hang together.

My father was stationed at RNAS Owl during the war, on one of the Barracuda squadrons based there, as a newly minted Aircraft Artificer.
He started watching the programme but was interrupted by a phone call and missed the veterans chat.
It’s repeated on channel 4Seven at 7pm 23 January (tonight), so he’ll be reliving old memories….mainly of how perishing cold the place was! He tells me that the CO of his Barracuda squadron, a former Swordfish pilot, refused to fly the aircraft because he thought it was too bloody dangerous!

Very sad news…I didn’t ever think the day would come when Mildenhall closed. Still, we can enjoy the fantastic memories of some of the greatest UK airshows..and what a package it was……Burgers, Bud and Blackbirds.
The only downside……shooting into the sun! Unless you had a Press pass.
I do feel sorry for the inevitable UK job losses and the effects on the local economy.
Farewell the ‘Hall and thanks.

Times flies..I remember John Dunnell when he used to sell his very fine monochrome prints at Old Warden and other displays. They were always a benchmark to aspire to. Best of luck to his lad in his new post.

Great background details, Andy.
I was impressed by the use of the extensive archive film..it was obviously selected by someone who knew what they doing…tropical marks and D-Day aerial footage correctly placed and so on. It really shone in the depiction of the precision engineering required to produce the end result….I will look at the Mk 1s with even more incredulity from today. And the human story of the Stephenson family was sensitively told. A great success and a credit to all those involved.

Thanks, looking forward to the programme.