Early '50s Navy slides from Mike Kolasa

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:53 pm

And here's a couple of classic propliners:

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:56 pm

And another from the ramp at NAS Jax:

norman malayney · **Joined:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:35 am **Posts:** 133

Fantastic material. They give a totally truthful perspective of how the NAS appeared with many different types of aircraft from that time period. Again, thank you for sharing this wonderful material with us.

Norman Malayney

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:39 am

Great stuff!

Look at the clock on the control tower in that last shot!

So what scanner and editing program are you using? How are you cleaning the dust off of your slides?

Thanks

Dan K · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:58 am

Tailspin Turtle wrote:

Dan K wrote:

Gotta' be COD (pretty common post-war conversion, actually).

Note the guy in back facing rearwards.

Doh! Now I do. Old age and eyesight.

richkolasa · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:51 am

Ztex wrote:

Great stuff!
So what scanner and editing program are you using? How are you cleaning the dust off of your slides?

Thanks

I'm using the Nikon Coolscan V that I'm only really comfortable using for about 6 months now. I save high quality JPEGs, run them through "Noiseware" to get rid of the noise, then resize and do a little clean-up in Photoshop.

As the one F9F shot shows, I really didn't do any cleaning of the slides. My uncle brought me some boxes of his better shots, and I ran them. There's some that I will clean and re-do, like that F9F shot on the previous page. I have some film cleaning solution (Kodak), that's all I've ever used.

Thanks for the kind words, my uncle appreciates it.

Rich

Django · **Posted:** Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:54 am

Fantastic photos. Thanks to you both for sharing!!

richkolasa · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:15 am

Here's three more. I'll probably come up with another 25 or 30 in the future, of what I've already scanned. I'll ask the Uncle if he's got more shots, I'm sure he does.

Michel C-GNCJ · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:22 am

Wow ! What a treat !!!

Tks for sharing this with us.

GIJOE290 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:41 pm

OOOO....AAAAA.... <drools> :shock:

Fantastic photo's!!

Thanks for sharing 'em!!

NC_Rotorhead · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:03 pm **Posts:** 107

Rich,

Got to thank you again for sharing those slides of your uncle's. Great stuff.

Regards
Steve

Hunterfan · **Joined:** Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:08 pm **Posts:** 46

Rich,

From the other side of the Pond, my sincere thanks to you and your uncle for some great images.

Looking at those Navy paint jobs, they bring back a far more colourful era than today's.

Where was that beautiful air to air of the yellow SNJ taken? Was it out of Jacksonville?

jwc50 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:56 pm

Wow, these slides from the early/mid 50s time frame are TERRIFIC. Really appreciate you sharing from your Uncle's collection.

Keep them coming if you can.

richkolasa · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:35 pm

Hunterfan wrote:

Rich,
Where was that beautiful air to air of the yellow SNJ taken? Was it out of Jacksonville?

No, he was stationed at NAS Pensacola, where I think all the air-to-air shots were taken.

Rich

richkolasa · **Posted:** Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:42 pm

Here's a couple of more. The first is another of my favorites, showing F9Fs, T-28s, SNBs, Navy Shooting Stars and an Air Force one taxiing. The second shot shows an RCN Avenger along with the blimp line.

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