70s SBACs

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Hi There,

Here are some more scanned photos. This time from the 72, 76 and 78 SBAC shows.

The quality is poor as they were taken with my earliest cameras as a child.

I hope they are still of interest.


1972
MY first ever photo the 18 runway line up taken with a Box Brownie camera.





The next two sets are taken with a Kodak Instamatic. This type of camera used a cartridge film which produced square photos.
I have cropped them to a normal 6x4 format

1976

















1978




The Dassault line-up minus the Mirage 2000 which had left before the public days, the shape of things to come!!!













As I said not too good for quality but hope you find them interesting all the same.

Cheers

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got any more??? I find these old photos that have been appearing just recently fascinating no matter what their qaulity..thanks for posting

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I think the 1976 show was the only one I missed due to not being well (and just before my first holiday abroad to Canada - thankfully I was able to travel) But anyway I do remember N305EA, the Eastern Airlines Tri Star with the BEA tail from the 1972 show, the only camoflaged Skyvan I can remember from that show was G-AXPT. It's possible that Hunter G-BABM is visible among the Harriers. I say that I missed the 1976 show but, of course I picked off some as they arrived for the show, such as Tri Star A40-TY. And when they went up for jollys after the day's flying displays ended. They used to do that in those days!!!

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Hi,

A nice trip down memory lane. Used to live in Sussex at that time and often went to Farnborough air shows. Usually catching a special coach from Brighton.

Ian

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Have discovered some notes from the 1972 show. The day of my visit was 9/9/72 and was a birthday present for a fledgling spotter!! Harriers noted were XV768,XW195,XW916 and a US one 158709 (last number may be '4' - writing not too clever!!) What looks like a viggen in the background of the 1972 photo. I have the code '02' in my notes for this.

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Hi There,

Thanks for the comments.

Some of the points that were raised in the 72 pic yes it is the Hunter G-BABM you can see, and G-VTOL is lurking behind the fuel bowser. I'm sure the Viggen is 02 but may be -02 the swedes sometimes put -sign to signify if it was pre production or prototype. I guess it must have been 37002 would that make sense?

As for are there anymore well yes but mostly from the 80s onwards. I spent several years scanning my slide collection for ease of storage when I went digital. I will post more in the the coming weeks and months.

Glad you found them interesting

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My 72 pics of G-BABM & the AJ37 Viggen, plus the F27 for good measure. The Viggen was indeed 37002 from the Malmslatt Test Centre, it was finally broken up at Halmstad in 1999.

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Those were the days!

Cracking pics from you all.

My first show was 1978, I'm just a youngster ;D

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right see what i can do . ive discovered some old 35mm carts whats on em NO iDEA
But will take em to Boots .