To my eyes there’s something not quite right about the propeller. Possibly a Russian prop – can any of the experts out there throw some light on it?

Here you go. I’ve just done a quickie by using print screen, save as a JPG and then crop.

After 20 years the latent image will probably have degraded pretty badly, but there should be something there. Just don’t hold your breath.
I don’t like the sound of the fire though. The colder the film is, the better it lasts.
I ran a well-outdated film through a camera a couple of years back, and took about a year to do it. I’d kept the film in the freezer, and the final images were excellent, but those at the start of the film that had been sitting in the camera for months on end were obviously deteriorating with faded colours and a pinkish cast.
Kodacolor negative film from before the mid-1960s will be the old C22 developing process, just to complicate matters. Not impossible, but only a handful of specialist labs can handle it now, and then at a price!

I remember… thinking that it was a Planet Satellite of the jet age, ie great vision and design, but possibly no market.

Great looking aircraft in flight, some pics and videos of it here courtesy of Machdiamonds.com, http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://machdiamonds.com/leopard1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://machdiamonds.com/leopard.html&usg=__tCH83ZDZU6VVxi3bFnTNIVuD0ck=&h=360&w=732&sz=104&hl=en&start=1&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=0d7_3NcK8skKwM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=141&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcmc%2Bleopard%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1T4ACAW_enGB337GB337%26tbm%3Disch&ei=XjE8TuKkMo7u-gaBv8C_Ag

At least the Leopard flew properly. The Satellite looked the business, but its two hop-flights both ended with a damaged aircraft and the CAA of its day declared a complete redesign was needed.

Abingdon played host to a Battle of Britain display a few weeks later in September 1968 and there were wall to wall Beverleys in the flying display. including a rather ponderous formation flypast and horizontal bomb-burst.
All these years later I can’t recall a solo Beverley – which isn’t to say there wasn’t one – and a transonic Lightning display was only to be expected in any proper air show of the era. (OK, I know there’s a difference between supersonic and transonic…)

” We wanted more, and so the pilot flew by sideways, so we could glimpse the bull’s-eye insignia on wings and tail, marks of the Royal Air Force.”

Reckon it would be worth the trip to Seattle to see a Hurricane being flown sideways:diablo:

So the fact that the Il-18 appears larger is purely an optical illusion

Or even an optical Ilyushin?

I’ll get my coat…

To a teenage planespotter in the 1960s it was a Duck Pond!

Only ever saw one once, lumbering into Heathrow. But it was the kind of plane that once seen, would never be forgotten.