'70s Fly-Ins & Airshows

[Mark Nankivil]

Greetings All -

A few months ago, my good friend Bob Burgess offered me spares from his extensive 35mm slide collection. In less than a millisecond, I said YES and I have since scanned around 300 slides with more to come. Bob's been shooting since the late 50s/early 60s and includes a tour in Vietnam as a GIB in F-4s (206 missions) and afterwards with the ILANG in Springfield, IL again flying in F-4s.

These photos are interesting and show various Warbirds in '71 at East Alton, IL and at Wright-Pat plus some miscellaneous here and there.

Hope you enjoy them! Mark

East Alton, Illinois - Memorial Day Weekend 1971











Pax River - Sept, 1975



MacDill AFB - November 1976



Wright-Patterson AFB - May, 1972

[daveymac82c]

Beautiful shots!

Thanks for posting them.

Cheers,

David

[Ztex]

Those are some fine photos!
Most of the photos you see from that era are not that good.

Great job scanning them too!

More please!

[O.P.]

Nice, nice effin ride baby! Maaannnnnn, I would be totally pimp showing up with this rig. I want one when I grow up!Thanks for the pics dude! Tell Mr Burgess thanks for the pictures!

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[AIRIC]

Very nice selection. Thanks for posting.

Eric

[warbirdcrew]

Judging by the chocks laying to the side, I would say he probably was not doing a run-up. I wonder if he ever realized why the airspeed indicator didn't work

[Mark Nankivil]

Thanks guys - these slides are a small sample of the 300+ I've already scanned (Epson Perfection 4990 and Silverfast software working thru PhotoShop CS2) though most are contemporary military and civilian/commerical aircraft. I'll see him this weekend and he has more slides for me.

Here's some more miscellaneous warbirds....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[wls3]

An interesting time for warbirds not often seen.
Thanks for sharing these photos.
Look forward to seeing more of them!

[John Kerr]

FANTASTIC PHOTOS. THANKS A MILLION FOR YOUR HARD
WORK IN SCANNING THEM AND POSTING.

[P51Mstg]

The Sabre didn't make it much longer...........


RCAF 23306. To N306X (.77?). Shot down by Roland missile, White Sands NM 22Jul78.

Interesting site here, lots of F-86 stuff:

http://f-86.tripod.com/fsi.html

Mark H

[PeterA]

Exceptional images, and some familiar 'friends' there.

I look forward to the odd Spitfire.

Thanks and keep 'em coming.

PeterA

[GIJOE290]

Wow! Great shots!

Thanks for sharing'em.

[skybolt2003]

I'm guessing those were Kodachrome. I doubt Ektachrome would hold up that well.

[dors]

Thanks a million for posting. I love vintage airshow stuff.

[PeterA]

Exceptional images, and some familiar 'friends' there.

I look forward to the odd Spitfire.

Thanks and keep 'em coming.

PeterA

'
...for the sake of our colonial friends please read that as 'occasional' Spitfire.

PeterA