Some sixty years ago...

[Pecole]

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In the mid-fifties, I used to haunt air displays all over Europe with my Leicas, a IIIg and an M3 with Summitar and Summicron 50 (I couldn't afford more at that time). I am still surprised with the quality of the images I recently digitized from original films.

On the images, a Dassault Etendard,, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a curious American jet fighter project with inverted swept tail-wing, a good old Short Sunderland flying boat and a Douglas A-4 Skyraider.

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[stuny]

Very nice.

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[Bateleur]

Interesting... wasn't the plane with the Defence research logo the forerunner of the F16?

 

Thank you

Charles

[Pecole]

Interesting... wasn't the plane with the Defence research logo the forerunner of the F16?

 

Thank you

Charles

 

Not as far as I know. The unusual "inverted" planform - never applied in reality - has nothing to do with the actual F-16 configuration. Since re-discovering my images of the DARPA "thing", I try to find more information.

[david strachan]

Very nice Pecole.  You could still do nice compositions even in the "old" days??...

 

New cameras haven't really .added much, eh?

 

Amazing flying machines...more please.

 

all best...

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Did you also made some color pictures?

[Pecole]

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Did you also made some color pictures?

 

Sorry, no. At that time, color pictures were not so common...and too expensive for me.

[Pecole]

Interesting... wasn't the plane with the Defence research logo the forerunner of the F16?

 

Thank you

Charles

 

Sorry, Bateleur : I was wrong in saying that "inverted planform" had never been implemented. The Grumman X-29 test aircraft was exactly that, and most probably based on DARPA research model I pictured at Le Bourget. Here is a photo from my archives for your information.

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"Pecole" post="3149509" timestamp="1479218966

 

"Sorry, no. At that time, color pictures were not so common...and too expensive for me."

 

I'm glad my father added about 1955 to his black&white films some color slides, mostly by Perutz or Agfa and seldom some very expensive Kodachromes.

Nice to see on his Leitz projector, but his only camera was a Voigtlaender Vito B with an collapsible Color-Skopar 3.5-50mm lens, probably some kind of Leica for the poorer man.

Nevertheless I was proud doing my first steps in photography at the age of seventeen on this small Voigtlaender camera.

 

P.S.: Sorry for the technically poor quality of citation.

Something seems to be disturbed with the forum software, here especially the text coding.

Hopefully it will be repaired soon.

[epand56]

I like the B 17, but above all I love the picture of the Short Solent Flying boat.

Edited December 22, 2016 by epand56

[Pecole]

I like the B 17, but above all I love the picture of the Short Solent Flying boat.

 

Hi, epand56.

I just reviewed the threads, and only now realize you were perfectly right in correcting my "caption" . It is a Solent, indeed, on the fifth image, not a Sunderland : I should have noticed the "windows". Thanks.

[jmahto]

Really liked it. I love planes.