10,000 days ago today, in a faraway land, there was an airshow......
 

All taken at the Air Force 81 airshow at New Sarum (Zimbabwe) on the 25/10/1981 :-

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Reims Cessna FTB337G Lynx

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SF260 Genet

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Flying photos to follow....

Presume that was Jack Malloch's Spitfire 22?

Great pics!

its been said before but the hunter is a beauty from ANY angle.
even in drab!!!

So if you meet Dr Who, remember to take a new One Hundred Trillion Zimbabwe Dollar banknote with you......

...and buy the whole ZAF.

I remember those Skymasters flying overhead the convoy from Salisbury to Beitbridge.
At least I think it was them, it's a long time ago now and I was only a child at the time.
Perhaps someone here knows?
PB

GOD! I wont that Reims Cessna :{:{ lol

But on a more serous note, what are the bombs inboard of the inner pylons under the Hunter? some kind on Daisy cutter?

The bombs were I think called "Golf Bombs".

The bombs were I think called "Golf Bombs".

I agree and i think they were anti personnel bombs,but then again I wasnt a 'Bombhead'

I make it 10007 days, crumbs my fingers are worn out...:}

Julian Day Number Calculations

My County's road traffic spotter plane is a Cessna 337. I haven't looked closely to see whether it's the version in the above photo.

The Cessna 337 here was known as the 'Lynx' in the air force. And I used to fly those DC-3s .......... :(

Hope you dont mind me tagging these 2 pics onto this thread
The same Provost ?? flying out of Thornhill 83/84
also a Hawk flying from Thornhill with the locally converted Sf260 turbo prop,which apparently could exceed its vne in the climb
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No problem about adding photos...the more the merrier.

Here are some shots taken in 1982 at New Sarum. The occasion was the arrival of the first Hawk, which we were not allowed to photograph. After the Hawk display, the Air force put on a small display outside the Officer's mess.

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Here's a photo of an Alouette I took somewhere in Rhodesia (as it was at the time). For a bit of fun, can anyone identify where?

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Looks like Mt Susitna (?) in Alaska- the mountain overlooking Anchorage that looks like a lady reclining with her hair spread out on the ground!

And at the same location 28-years earlier, 13th June 1953.

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Rhodes Centenary Air Rally 1953 - Airfield View

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83 Sqn Lincoln from Hemswell

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219 Sqn Meteor NF Mk 11 from Kabrit in the Canal Zone and in the background 12 Venoms of 266 Sqn from Wunsdorf (Germany).

Sadly the next day two Harvards from 5 FTS at RAF Thornhill collided in mid-air. Three crew were killed, but no one on the ground was injured.

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I flew in the formation practice at RAF Thornhill (5 FTS) and took these photos of the two aircraft (FX 373 & FX 431) that collided and crashed at Salisbury three days later on 14th June 1953.

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Convoys
 

I flew the Lynx (Skymaster) and Genet (Siamachetti) on convoy cover numerous times PB..crazy days huh!

Those Hunters were definitely not supplied from Oman in about 1978 due to the arms embago. ;)

Presumably those FGA.9s are either the ex-RAF examples and/or the ones they got from Kenya.

amazing photos; poor Zimbabwe, once a rich country. Mugabe will be 93 soon. What will happen when he dies?