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I've recently scanned about 100 old Kodachrome 35mm slides taken by my dad, R.P. "Dick" Rice in the early 60s. They were mostly taken at Oskaloosa and Ottumwa, Iowa but also several were taken at an Arizona fly-in in late 1961 or early 1962.

I just dropped these onto a webpage. Most lack captions, but I plan on adding them and pertinent info as time permits....but flying and working on my Swift and Cub take precedence so don't get in a hurry.

I thought you folks might be interested in seeing some of these.

Here's the URL: http://home.comcast.net/~jimrice85/site ... on_Photos/

Regards,

Jim Rice
1946 Globe Swift N3368K
1946 Piper J-3 Cub N7155H
http://home.comcast.net/~jimrice85/planepage.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~jimrice85/site/?/home/

Thanks for posting, some great old airplanes in that set.........

awesome pictures, thanks for posting!

Thanks o much for posting the link. Those are some really neat and rare aircraft in those slides.
Love it!
Jerry

Great shots..

and Lefty Gardner's former "White Lightin", now the Flying Legends "Red Bull" P-38 ends the set!

Awesome

(i guess my P-38 joke offended someone?)

WWIIABN wrote:I've recently scanned about 100 old Kodachrome 35mm slides taken by my dad, R.P. "Dick" Rice in the early 60s. They were mostly taken at Oskaloosa and Ottumwa, Iowa but also several were taken at an Arizona fly-in in late 1961 or early 1962.

I just dropped these onto a webpage. Most lack captions, but I plan on adding them and pertinent info as time permits....but flying and working on my Swift and Cub take precedence so don't get in a hurry.

I thought you folks might be interested in seeing some of these.

Nice dose of nostalgia there, Jim
I used make the pilgrimage to Blakesburg every year and then Ottumwa after the "split" but it somehow wasn't the same. One day I'll get around to digitizing some of my old classics.

W

My first airplane ride as in a Meyers OTW...

the330thbg wrote:Great shots..

and Lefty Gardner's former "White Lightin", now the Flying Legends "Red Bull" P-38 ends the set!

Awesome

(i guess my P-38 joke offended someone?)

That's Race#14, J.D. Reed's N25Y, in it's "twin to Jay Dee" bronze paint scheme. That airplane had the most beautiful paint schemes in it's first four years as a racer, Mobilgas, Sky Ranger Oil, and the bronze scheme, and all WIX guys can think about is that white CAF paint job. Boring.
The polished finish now is stunning, also.
Chris...

Great set of slides, WWIIABN. I really enjoy those old pics of the early antiquer fly-in's.
Chris...

Greatv stuff from early in the AAA movement.

I can't read the N number, but I think the plane in slide 035 is Richard Bach's Detroit-Parks N499H...subject of his books Biplane and Nothing by Chance.

Took me way back in time and to the very first Arlington Fly-ins, when stuff like that shown was what you saw @ the local airport. Nice time warp! THANX

Great post Jim. It motivates me to get back to scanning some of my old photos and slides. If some of those images were from the early 1960s, many of those planes were about thirty years old when the photos were taken. A 1980 Cessna 172 looks right at home on a general aviation flight line in 2010 and it would be thirty years old also.

I'm looking forward to your next post.

What a wonderful time-capsule! Lovely old radial-engined classics. Imagine rows of Monocoupes!

Dave

Wow, those are great pictures! Thank you so much for taking the time to scan them and share them with us.

I can't believe the number of spectacular airplanes that were captured in those shots.

I'd love to see someone do a "Where are they now" for each one. I wonder how many of them ended up in barns. Wink, wink.

Peace,

David

What is the Blue biplane, N275N, on the concrete ramp toward the bottom of the photos? Curtiss Fledgling?