Old photos, Round #4, Airborne shots

yardbird78

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From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway

Old photos, Round #4, Airborne shots

Posted by yardbird78 on Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:54 PM

My old scanner, copier, printer rolled over and died a couple days ago, so I bought a new Hewlett Packard C8180. The primary reason that I bought this particular machine is that it can scan positive transparency slides as well as color and B&W negatives for print film. These are some samples I came up with while playing around learning how to use it. There is a fair amount of dust & other contamination on the slides that I don't know how to remove without ruining the slide.

Flight Systems F-86 tow plane with TDU-10B target dart. Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, April 1983. The 18th Tac Fighter Wing had F-15 Eagles at the time plus RF-4C Phantom recce birds.

More digital photos scanned from slides. I have several thousand slides that I have taken over the last 50 years. I am not sure how many of them are still in decent enough condition to be worth copying.

Darwin, O.F. Alien [alien]

Boeing 747 Mother plane with Shuttle Enterprise arriving at Scott AFB, IL, May 1983, for the Open House.

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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namrednef

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September 2012

Posted by namrednef on Saturday, June 14, 2008 8:01 PM

Happy you got the new gear Darwin!......great photos! Thank You!

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Daywalker

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September 2003
From: South Central Wisconsin

Posted by Daywalker on Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:13 PM

Great photos! I'm looking forward to seeing more as you progress with your new toy. Big Smile [:D]

Frank

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Gordon D. King

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May 2015

Posted by Gordon D. King on Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:35 PM

Congratulations on your new purchase. I use a Cannon Canoscan strictly for photos and negatives. You need Kodak film cleaner to get the dust off negatives and slides. If it's light dust you can use a can of compressed air. I spent the best part of a year scanning in 50 plus years of negatives I took during my career as a news reporter/photographer. I filed them to disks and made two copies of each one. They are kept in different safes. Catalog each disk with the photos on it so if you ever have to look for a particular photo you will know which disk to look for. Once you get used to the scanner, you can make adjustments for color correction and improve your original slides. Have fun.

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Porkbits

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June 2007

Posted by Porkbits on Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:44 PM

Nice!

Also, most current imaging software (Adobe Photoshop and Elements, for example) includes tools that can remove unwanted artifacts from scanned images. Might be a better option than trying to clean up the originals.

PB

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texgal45

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August 2006
From: SW Illinois

Posted by texgal45 on Monday, June 16, 2008 10:42 AM

I also like the old photos. Please post more when you get the time. Don't forget to get some modeling done though, especially that B-52 you were supposed to finish for your grandson two years ago.

Grandma L

bred, born & raised in North Texas, now displaced to Yankee Land

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yardbird78

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January 2003
From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway

Posted by yardbird78 on Monday, June 16, 2008 4:40 PM

These were taken at Beale AFB, California, May 1977, just a couple days before I went PCS to Guam.

For all of you F-14 lovers, don't do anything obscene on your computer screen.

For those that think an F-15 doesn't have that false canopy on the bottom. More shots of this bird next round.

Darwin, O.F. Alien [alien]

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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wyoroy

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August 2006
From: The Great State of Wyoming

Posted by wyoroy on Monday, June 16, 2008 5:38 PM

Some very cool photos. Thanks for sharing.

Roy (Capt. Wyoroy FAAGB/USNFAWGB)

John 3:16

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Daywalker

Member since
September 2003
From: South Central Wisconsin

Posted by Daywalker on Monday, June 16, 2008 6:21 PM

Very cool Darwin!

I've never heard about the Eagle having a false canopy painted on the belly. I love it when I learn something new, thanks for that! Big Smile [:D]

Frank

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sfcmac

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October 2004
From: League City, Texas

Posted by sfcmac on Monday, June 16, 2008 6:29 PM

Thanks for sharing those pictures, I am really enjoying them as well. Makes me wish I had taken a few more over the years.

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brain44

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November 2004
From: Columbia Gorge

Posted by brain44 on Monday, June 16, 2008 8:15 PM

Darwin,

Thanks a million for the photos! I had never seen that particular livery before (the Tomcat and the Scooter), really cool! I had heard about the false canopy on the F-15, but had never seen it before - was that to confuse the Commies or the CAG?

Brian

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them." John Bernard Books (The Shootist)

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Medic18

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March 2007
From: Phila. Pa.

Posted by Medic18 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:36 AM

Does any one else hear the music...." I went to the dangerzone".... Great shots Darwin! Thanks!

Chris

"Failure isn't failure,if a lesson from it's learned."

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yardbird78

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January 2003
From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway

Posted by yardbird78 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:03 PM

Some jets to start off this round of pictures

June 1983, Scott AFB, KC-10 from Barksdale AFB

June 1983, Scott AFB, C-9A Nightengale

A few for the rotorheads.

April 1983, Kadena AB, Okinawa, HH-3E, 41 Rescue & Weather Reconnaissance Wing, 39 Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Squadron

Sept 1981, Weisbaden AB, Germany, REFORGER 81, UH-1N from Det 18, Plattsburg AFB, NY

Sept 1979, Kirtland AFB, NM, 1550 ATTW, CH-3E

November 1978, Andersen AFB, Guam, UH-1 from NAS Agana. Did someone say there is a helicopter in this picture?

Back to Kadena for some more jets

04-1983, F-15A, 18 TFW

04-1983, RF-4C, 18Tac Fighter Wing, 15 Tac Recon Sqd

04-1983, F-16A, 18 Tac Fighter Wing, 80 Tac Fighter Squadron, F-5A Agressor in the background

Darwin, O.F. Alien [alien]

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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mucker

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July 2004
From: Northern KY

Posted by mucker on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:09 PM

Neat, neat stuff Darwin!

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HawkeyeHobbies

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August 2006
From: Neenah, WI

Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:19 PM

Couple shots I took in Korea a long while ago...

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

"Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

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Medic18

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March 2007
From: Phila. Pa.

Posted by Medic18 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:28 PM

Darwin, I just thought of something while checking out the latest pics. Didn't anyone ever question why you were taking pictures or why you had a camera at a military instillation? I'm not trying to suggest anything here just wondering. Thanks again.

Chris

"Failure isn't failure,if a lesson from it's learned."

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yardbird78

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January 2003
From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway

Posted by yardbird78 on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:01 PM

Things were a lot different in those days. I was in uniform, so I sort of "belonged" and security usually didn't bother me. I took a bunch of pictures of the Kadena flight line and a security police finally told me that I really shouldn't be taking pictures and that it would be best if I left. Most of the other pictures, I was a member of the crew and had a "flight line badge", so I wasn't challenged, usually.

Darwin, O.F. Alien [alien]

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The B-52 and me, we have grown old, gray and overweight together.

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HawkeyeHobbies

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August 2006
From: Neenah, WI

Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:17 PM

I know while I was stationed in Korea, I took tons of pics of aircraft on the flightlines of Suwon and Osan. I used to have my film processed downtown, and the only pictures that were ever missing were the ones of ROKAF aircraft. Somewhere I have a picture of a U-2, in the foreground of the shot is a sign that says something about photography is strickly prohibited, yet they didn't bat an eye at processing it.

A few rolls of mine were returned with maybe one or two frames of the negatives intact. Usually pictures of the ground while I was loading film at the beginning of the rolls. The rest was confiscated by the Korean counterparts to our OSI.

Maybe that's where my C-130 deployment pictures went...I have two pictures out a whole 36 exposure roll. I took pictures of the ROK Marines parachuting out, pictures of other aircraft (Korean) on the ground and in the air with us...those buggers...they took away my best shots!