SR-71 forerunners

Started by Jay Mitchell · 9 · 4 years ago
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    Jay Mitchell said 4 years ago:

    I hope I’m posting this in the right area.

    Many years ago when I was in the Air Guard, I was, for a time, an “ Audio-Visual Specialist”.
    I had access to many old negatives , and a nice darkroom with all the chemicals and other supplies needed. So... I started a scrap book of airplane photos. I’ve continued this over the last 30+ years, although I no longer have a darkroom to print my own photos. I just gather them where ever I can.

    I thought I’d share these photos of early observation aircraft. The ones I have the most of are O-47s. Maybe they might be of interest to my fellow imodelers and may be a useful resource.

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    Erik Gjørup said 4 years ago:

    Who let the dogs out?
    but jay, WOW - fantastic photos! I for one, want more of this kind of photos. Thank you for sharing.

    If someone objects to them being brought here, then there is always the off-topic group here; https://imodeler.com/groups/off-topic/

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 years ago:

    Wow, Jay @ssgt!
    What wonderful pics!
    This is a real treasure.
    Please post more!

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    Jay Mitchell said 4 years ago:

    Thank Erik @airbum and Spiros @fiveten
    I was hoping someone would be interested in them. I have many others I can post. Maybe the off topic category might be better. I wonder how I can move this one.

    My military superiors never really understood me , I guess I never was mil-spec. Eventually they packed up all those old negatives and sent them to a repository someplace,( I doubt they’ll ever be printed again.) I was only able to print a small fraction of them. I moved on to be an “Air Frame repair Specialist” working on A-7s and F-16s. I always had my trusty Nikon with me though.

    I have some really excellent F-100 Super Sabre photos. I’ll try to put those up on imodeler .

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    Jay Mitchell said 4 years ago:

    Here are three additional ones . The formation of fly airplanes are over Colorado Springs near Pikes Peak. The other flying airplane is photographed going over the top of Pikes Peak... I believe that was the first time that was done. The flyer in front of the airplane was one of the first pilots in the Colorado National Guard.

    3 attached images. Click to enlarge.

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    Erik Gjørup said 4 years ago:

    Jay, I am afraid you have to start over when you go to the other group, but if you post these again with the text copied then I think you are off to a good start in the off-topic group. I shall check your pictures every now and then - they are really interesting, and some of them are even supersharp! I love the one of the aviator with the engine running.

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    Jay Mitchell said 4 years ago:

    I will try to re-post it in the off topic group and then get the F-100 photos posted too.
    Thanks for your help

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 years ago:

    Jay @ssgt, these are stunning photos!

    About moving the posting to Off-topic: I suggest that you may write this as an article and post it in the headlines as "Photo Collections" (it is one of the categories you are asked to label your article before uploading it ).

    You have the option of posting folow-up articles with more pics that will be connected to the first article in a nice and consisted way (if you "play" a bit with the New Article editior - go down> additional options BETA you are asked if you want your current article to be a continuation of one of your former ones. It might sound a bit chaotic, but it can be done easily if you "play" a bit.

    Here's an example of a series of 5 articles I posted as "Photo Collections":

    Hellenic Air Force Museum – A quick visit
    If you like the structure of them, you might think on doing something similar with your pic collections.. They might also randomly appear at the bootom of iModeler pages. These articles will remain in your blog, but will be easilly discovered by anyone interested, who will search for "Photo Collections" As for moving them from here, just delete them and repost everything on your New Article. You may even copy your text from here and paste it in your New Article main text body I don't know if my words helped, please write back for anything additional I might happen to know. Cheers
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    Jay Mitchell said 4 years ago:

    That sounds like a good idea, Spiros @fiveten. I will do that. I have dozens more that people might find interesting. At least if something happens to my collection, the images will survive.