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Airshows 1960's / 1970's

02 Aug 2019 09:38 #21 by canberra
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Looking at the pictures of Wymeswold I cant help noticing how formally eveyrone is dressed.

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02 Aug 2019 10:52 #22 by Peter Kirk
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Looking at family cine film from the late fifties it seems that jacket, waistcoat and cap/hat were standard attire. I assume the sixties changed all that, although a big factor in the fifties would have been rationing and lack of money plus the wartime attitude of make do and mend was still prevalent.

I notice that some of the children also wore school uniform or similar and I dare say cub/scout gear was also used. Why pay out for a new outfit for just the odd occasion?

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23 Oct 2019 19:52 #23 by stevie
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Sywell Air Show 1972 -

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09 Nov 2019 10:52 #24 by stevie
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Two shots taken & sent to me from Nigel Bailey-Underwood taken at Alconbury on the 27th May 1960. The day before the Armed Forces Day Airshow -

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18 Feb 2021 17:35 #25 by stevie
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I thought I'd post this little gem that I found recently.

The skies over Suffolk where certainly rumbling that day. It was bit before my time but I would have loved to have been there!!


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18 Feb 2021 18:38 #26 by airfields man
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Cheers Stevie, good to see. I love the car parking fee !

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19 Feb 2021 09:40 - 19 Feb 2021 09:40 #27 by stevie
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Cheers Stevie, good to see. I love the car parking fee !


Mildenhall was always good value for money compared to the other shows but nothing tops that year for value :lol:

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21 Mar 2021 10:29 - 21 Mar 2021 10:30 #28 by stevie
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Some more Mildenhall memories here courtesy of Nigel Bailey-Underwood sent me that he kindly allowed me to share on here -

A few years before the 'Air Fetes' started, The 1969 USAF Open Day -

.& two from the third 'Air Fete' held at Mildenhall in 1978 -


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21 Mar 2021 12:18 #29 by airfields man
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Clearer pictures than I can take 50 years later !

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29 May 2021 13:52 #30 by Peter Kirk
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Farnborough 1976 - I think it rained a lot and I got tipsy in the beer tent(s). Most slide I took that day were underexposed so I chucked them - shame I didn't predict digital photo correction software.

The photos below show the prototypes of the YC-15 and the YF-17, which evolved by one digit, and the ever present Concorde.








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