Aviation Photography - AAC Middle Wallop air show

AAC Middle Wallop air shows
Looking Back (to my pre-digital camera days)
1973 to 1990

A brief photo-report using my scanned slides taken during a number of Middle Wallop air shows

July 1990

AH-64A Apache (85-25474).

Left to right: AH-64A Apache (85-25474 and 85-25397).

Left to right: AH-64A Apache (85-25474).
Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk (81-23578).

Left to right: Lynx AH.7s (XZ??? 'H' and XZ212).

Left to right: Lynx AH.7 (XZ617 'Z') with 671 Squadron.
Gazelle AH.1 (XX438).
Westland Wessex HC.2 (XR523 'M') with 72 Squadron.

Left to right: Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander ASTOR (ZG989).

Left to right: Aérospatiale SA.342M Gazelle (4188 'AOG').
SH-14C Lynx (283) with Kon.Marine.
UH-1 (72+08) German Air Force.

Left to right: C-130 Hercules (NZ7002 '02') Royal New Zealand Air Force.
UH-1 (NZ3801 '01') Royal New Zealand Air Force.
OH-58 Kiowa (88-0287 ) US Army.
CH-47 Chinook (87-0073) US Army.

July 1986

Left to right: Spitfire MK.11a (P7350 'EB-Z').
Spitfire VIII (MT719 registered I-SPIT).

July 1984

Gazelle AH.1 (XZ316 'R') with ARWS.

Left to right: Gazelle AH.1 (XW885 'B' and XX403 'Y') with ARWS.

Left to right: Gazelle AH.1 (XZ332 'O' and XZ315 'P') with ARWS.
Westland Lynx 3 (ZE477) Westlands built prototype. It was constructed with a stretched and thickened Lynx AH.1 fuselage design with a stengthened wheeled undercarriage. It made its maiden flight in June 1984 flying 100 hours of trials into 1985. With no forthcoming orders its final flight was made in March 1987 and its was transferred to The Helicopter Museum, at Weston-super-Mare, in June 1989.

Left to right: Westland Scout AH-1s (XP885 'Y', XW613 'V' and XW798 'U').

Left to right: Harrier GR.3 (XV758 'J') with 233 OCU.
UH-1 (03313 '53') with Swedish Army.
Agusta 109 (MM81010 'E.I.851') with Esercito (Italian Army).

July 1975

Bell AH-1G Cobra (67-15624).

Left to right: Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe (68-18458) with 295 AC.
Sikorsky CH-53G (85+00) with HFR-15.
Bell 47G-4A (G-AXKZ 'Z') with Bristow.

Left to right: Lynx HAS.2 (XX510).
Air and Space 18A (G-BALB).
Swordfish (LS326).

July 1973

Alouette II (OL-A70) FAB 17 Esc.

Left to right: Alouette II (OL-A62) FAB 17 Esc.
Mil-1 (03) with Russian AF VV-S.
Autogiro (G-A???).
Spitfire T.8 (G-AIDN).