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A lot of our nostalgia area photos include text from members wishing that they'd had a Digital SLR camera, 20, 30, 40 years ago.............

So the scenario is this. You have a time machine and a DSLR camera. You have 3 choices to visit an aviation related event, venue, RAF station or base anywhere in the world since the advent of powered flight.

Would you wish to witness a Squadron of Lancasters depart during World War Two, or capture the attack on Pearl Harbour. Is the jet era more your thing or maybe the Cold War time period?

When and where would you go? But remember you only have 3 choices to encapsulate over 100 years of Military Aviation history. Safe journey and remember to share your choices with us all.

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Jeez, only 3!?

1. RAF Thorpe Abbots - 1944 - 100th Bomb Group's B-17s coming home
2. RAF Broadwell - 1944 - 512/575 Sqn's C-47s towing Horsa gliders on D-Day
3. RAF Biggin Hill - Summer of 1940

Could have picked any of these though - RAF Chivenor in the 1980s, RAF Brawdy, RAF Pembrey Sands in the 1950s, RAF Binbrook, RAF Scampton in the 1940s, RAF Upper Heyford in the 1970s/80s, RAF Perdiswell and RAF Hockley Heath RLG in the 1940s, Castle Bromwich and Longbridge Austin Works in the 1940s, RAF Wellesbourne Mountford in the 40s...so many!




Ok, so I cheated and picked about 10, but hey ho. Great idea for a thread Goose.

Steve

1) First flight of Concorde. (Civvy but..... )

2) A Vulcan QRA (?) launch.

3) A Spitfire launch from Biggin Hill in WW2


Mark

If only this was available I would like to go back to 1940, to witness RAF Biggin Hill scrambling it's fighters, to witness the air battles over Kent, low flying Spits, Hurris and the German Luftwaffe. I'd love to meet and photograph the FEW at the pub and at their airfields. Oh and have my photo taken shaking hands with Salor Malan and all the other great air aces. Even cross the channel and tog Galland and the Abberville Boys

Coltishall
Coltishall
Coltishall

Early 1970s RAF Marham – first on base visit Victors and B52 exchange

Early 1970s Lossiemouth – second on base visit Jaguars, Shackletons and Gannets

7 February 1983 Winthorpe – Vulcan XM594 delivery, bound to be better than I’ve uploaded in here!

Great one this goose!!
Aug 18th 1940 somewhere around south coast
sept 17th 1944 east coast waiting for the c47's
east coast any time during 1944 just to listen to what an 8th AF raid sounded like passing over head and sit there until the evening waiting for Bomber command's finest.

glasfryn wrote:Great one this goose!!

A pleasure. Hopefully it's one which the whole community can get involved in.................

Good idea but I'll see all the classics I need in 2 weeks at Brunty, with my DSLR

Got to be the 2nd World War along the East Coast here South of Grimsby - just to see the Lancs going out on their Bombing Raids.
As for Airfields at that time - I would have been spoilt for choice round this area .

The very sad part of it all would have been how few of them returned!!!

Think this thread Goose could run to many pages .

Cheers Paul.

Farnborough, 4th September 1958. Black Arrows 22 ship loop.
Boscombe Down, 27 September 1964. TSR.2 first flight.
Londons Tower Bridge, 5th April 1968. Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock, a flight commander in No. 1(F) Squadron RAF, flies his Hawker Hunter UNDERNEATH the upper span of the bridge (shortly before being relieved of duty for his actions). To see that,,,well!

Remember to all to take your time selecting your choices. I've used 2 pages of a note pad selecting mine and I still have a short list of 7!

well most choices would be in ww2.. but apart from that

Gulf war, somewhere in the desert watching the GR1's flying low level towards their targets
Falklands 1982, on a carrier watching the harriers departing
First flight of TSR2 or SR177

so many more though

Scampton to shoot the 617 SQN dam raiders.
Coningsby from 1960s to 1980s.
would also have like to have captured our space and missle program spadeadam.
thou I would guess there would have been so much to choice from the 40s to the 70s.thou.

1. Ark Royal 70's
2. Boscombe Down in the 60's
3. Wright Flyer (first flight) 1903

1. Andersen Air Force Base, Guam during the Linebacker II phase of the Vietnam war to watch the B-52D/G'S

2. 12th November 1944 RAF Lossiemouth to watch the Lancasters of No.IX(B) & 617 Sqn take off to attack the Tirpitz.

3. Muharraq airbase during Operation Granby - Buccaneers, Jaguars and Tornados

I'd like to go back and live by Mildenhall with a DSLR all through the 1980's to do some Blackbird spotting

Roswell - the summer of 1947.

RAF Mildenhall through the 1980's for some more Habu action. I just didn't take enough snaps back then.

South East England during the Battle of Britain.

Now I like this type of thread!

1. April 21st 1918 - To catch the last flight of Manfred Von Ricthofen
2. October 14th 1947 - To catch Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier
3. South Coast during the BoB

Some great ideas!!

Any more?