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Re: 1970s Mil Collection

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The "Hun" is one of my favourite birds. Great pics!! :)
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Thank you for sharing these beautiful pics of the fabulous Super Sabre! :D

I've scanned two photographs that I obtained from Welschap/Eindhoven airbase (this is their size), made ± 22-06-1962,
the F-100D 55-3614/FW-614 from 20th Tactical Fighter Wing RAF Weathersfield
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A squadron-rotation between the Huns from Touls and the Starfighters from Volkel in June 1972. My dad was amongst the groundcrew that TDY'ed to Touls.

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Rob, nice profile shot of that beautiful F-100. (I never heard them called the "Hun" until around 1971, and then I thought it was modellers and enthusiasts who used that name). I thought the F-100 was pretty before the camo era. With camo she was only interesting with a tail-code. Just my preference.

RobertS, I purchased a refurbished Epson 3170 slide scanner for my 6X6 negs and slides about 3 years ago. It works for 6X6 because it has a light in the lid as a separate light source for transparent materials.

Wonderful formation shot, Mickey.
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Welschap/Eindhoven 28-06-1965, Northrop F-5B Freedom Fighter # 63-8445 on sales tour:

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(photos in 1965 via Photodept. Eindhoven airbase)
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In my eyes Northrop has always been an innovative company, often striving to do what no other organization has done, and often succeeding. In the case of the F-5 series, NATO was offered a supersonic platfrom that was not a hand-me-down from previous military production. Would anyone say it was not an outstanding success? Many years after your pictures, Rob, many American aviation enthusiasts got their first look at the F-5 when it was used by the USAF/USN agressor squadrons. I recall a viable concept back in the late 1960s equip the Air National Guard with new F-5s instead of F-100D Super Sabres that were becoming available.

Great shot, that F-5B. I was thinking we might want to start an F-100 thread, and have put aside some shots of the Super Sabre for scanning. Let me know if we should do this, it will take a few days for me to have them ready.
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tomh wrote:I was thinking we might want to start an F-100 thread, and have put aside some shots of the Super Sabre for scanning. Let me know if we should do this, it will take a few days for me to have them ready.
Tom,

I like the idea of this topic, showing a nice timeframe (i.e. the seventies), with all the variety. Or like Robert S. has put it in your civil topic:
RobertS wrote:I like this "megamix"
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The F-100 is for me a very beautiful airplane, like is the Crusader, or the Hunter T.7, the U.S. Navy birds without camouflage, etc. etc.;
speaking for myself keeping these shots together in one nice Tom's topic would be fine. :)
But of course I am very curious to see your Super Sabre shots to be scanned.

I will scan some more 'oldies' from the sixties and the seventies (being negs, slides and photos) and show them here.
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Yes, let's keep this mega-mix 1970s thread and don't start too many new ones. Unfortunately, since I was born in 1970, I didn't shoot any pics in the 70s, but my first airshow was Volkel in 1975 and I vividly remember Lightnings, Mirages, Phantoms and of course Starfighters on the flightline and flying over our schoolyard those days!

Keep them coming :yourock: .

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Mickey312 wrote:Yes, let's keep this mega-mix 1970s thread and don't start too many new ones. Unfortunately, since I was born in 1970, I didn't shoot any pics in the 70s, but my first airshow was Volkel in 1975 and I vividly remember Lightnings, Mirages, Phantoms and of course Starfighters on the flightline and flying over our schoolyard those days!

Keep them coming :yourock: .

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Those were the days, wonderful images, keep them coming!
BTW Mickey, 1975 had two Open Days, Leeuwarden was also open that year...

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Welschap/Eindhoven ± 12-02-1968, # 10570 AH-D/65-10570 Northrop F-5A RNAF 332 Sqn. Rygge on squadron rotation
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idem Northrop F-5B # AH-Y/66-09241
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I looked through my F-100 stuff and to be thruthful, most of it is MA ANG and CT ANG. I have already posted a number of shots from those units. I guess the best thing for me is to add a few other units to this (70s) thread, which should be easy. Then later we can talk about where to put a few of the the F-100As I shot in the 60s, and the QF-100s I shot in the 80s.
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The design requirements for supersonic flight led to some very angular, brutish looking fighters. The F-100 Super Sabre was one of the first in this category. The smooth, flowing lines of the F-86 series were gone, replaced by a very rakish appearance with sharp angles throughout.

F-100D 55-3681 at Hanscom AFB, MA 10 June 1972. This aircraft, that I believe was assigned to the Air Force Systems Command, probably at Eglin AFB, FL., may have previously served with the Thunderbirds.

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F-100D 55-3630 131TFS/104TFG MA ANG over the numbers on rwy #02 at Barnes Muni AP, MA., 1972. The designers did a masterful job of blending the canopy into the fuselage lines on the Super Sabre.

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F-100D 55-2925 of the 118TFS/103TFG CT ANG at Plattsburgh AFB, NY 19 May 1979. Although I remember this unit flying with the callsign "Shark" quite often, they nicely incorporated a Hawk motif into their camoflage scheme near the end of their time with the Super Sabre. EDIT: This carried on the tradition started when they operated F-102s in ADC gray.

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Another of the Connecticut ANG F-100D aircraft at the north de-arm area at Bradley Field, CT., on 23 October 1974. This view of 55-3703 shows the drag chute attachment point to good effect.

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HC-130P 66-0222 102ARRS NY ANG at Westover ARB, 25 September 1976
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here a nice refuelling F-105,

from my "bought" slide collection

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Interesting shot, Roel. F-105D, I believe. I'm taking note of the centerline MER with the Mk.117s loaded up and concluding this is from approx 1965 time frame in the SEA war. Also remembering the comments made by Thud pilots that in SEA the US Air Force took the world's most potent all-weather supersonic nuclear strike fighter and encumbered it with WWII-era bombs, killing a lot of pilots with this combination.

Below we see an F-105B from the NJ ANG with Bicentennial Markings at McGuire AFB, NJ 31 May 1976

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