Some more 1970s (and other) slide scans

richkolasa · **Posted:** Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm

"Growing up" at Caldwell-Wright had it's advantages (military visitors, resident DC-3s and Battle of Britain B-25):

Unfortunately, a propane heater took its toll on this DC-3:

And here's a Canadian Heritage Flight at Trenton, ONT 1999:

Here's some blue-nosers at Oshkosh a few years back:

And I have no idea where I took this. East coast, maybe Sanford, FL or Homestead, not sure:

gary1954 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:13 pm

richkolasa wrote:

While I'm watching a "destroyed in seconds" marathon, I thought I'd scan some slides and send off some to friends around the world (this Inna-net thing is cool!).

The first is one of my favorite shots (I was 10 when I took it, sorry for the poor composition...

). The others might be of some interest too:

Rich, Do you have a time frame for this photo? I can account for this Connie for September 1974, and am interested in when and zackley where you shot this picture.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for the HR Photo

mlenoch · **Posted:** Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:37 pm

"Go Bluenosers!"
VL

richkolasa · **Posted:** Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:30 pm

You go Vlado!

Here's a few more images:

And Oceana (2000 I believe):

richkolasa · **Posted:** Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:34 pm

gary1954 wrote:

Rich, Do you have a time frame for this photo? I can account for this Connie for September 1974, and am interested in when and zackley where you shot this picture.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for the HR Photo

The slide is dated March of 1975. We were down at Ft. Lauderdale, and I'm pretty sure that it was raining when we went to Miami (I remember EC-121s in the rain that I shot from the car), so I think this had to be at Ft. Lauderdale. I was 10, so I really can't go any deeper than that. I believe that I took it in January or February, and it was processed in March. How I was off of school at that time I have no idea, but I guess a trip to Ft Lauderdale and Pensacola took precedence.

Rich

gary1954 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:21 pm

Thanks Rich, This would have been after she was returned to the owner, as she had been leased for the "textile" operation she was used for.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:39 pm

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[/img]Down at Pensacola, the S-44 ready for shipping:
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Rich;
Thanks for posting this photo!
That VS-44 sure looks much better than when we got it up to Stratford in the 1980's!
You must have been there shortly after it arrived in Florida. By the time we got it "home", the paint was really peeling badly and there was much more corrosion on the airframe.
I wish we could've gotten it back then. It would've saved a bunch of time, cost and original metal!
Thanks go to Bob Mikesh at NASM for talking Maureen O'Hara Blair into letting the Navy give it to the New England Air Museum. If he hadn't, it would've just gotten to the point of no return.
She's a beauty today!
http://www.neam.org/inventory/airprofile.asp?ID=125

Blue skies,
Jerry

Ztex · **Posted:** Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:15 pm

This is great stuff Rich!

Very nice Tomcat shots!

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:57 am

How did the Navy get hold of the VS-44?

T J

richkolasa · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:26 pm

Here's some more from Oceana (all 2000 I think):

mlenoch · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:47 pm

F4U-5, N179PT Dale Snodgrass working his AT&T contract.
VL

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:02 am

Vlado, have you gotten any modern jet rides? I assume that you have some Heritage Flight rides? Phantom? Eagle? Just curious. Wish I would have taken you up on at Sussex when you were there with the Four Horsemen.

Here's a couple from Transfair '77 at Pomona, NJ (Atlantic City). The Bronco is one of my favorite aircraft, but I have few shots of them in "action". The '106s were awesome too!

And the final display of the Blackbird at Edwards 99:

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:11 am

This is one of my favorite Huey paint jobs (Cleveland mid 1970s), it'd be a cool one for a warbird Huey:

And you know you're getting old when you've taken shots like this:

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:25 am

Here's a couple of Oshkosh shots:

richkolasa · **Posted:** Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:31 am

Can you believe that Art has been gone 22 years?

And a B-24 configuration you don't see much:

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Some more 1970s (and other) slide scans

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