moose135
2007-03-03, 01:19 AM
As I've been threatening to do for a while, I got myself a scanner today that can scan 35mm slides, and I've spent the last few hours playing with it. The first batch I came across were from my Air Force days, some that I shot during a 3 week TDY (Temporary Duty) trip to RAF Mildenhall in April 1987.
On the way over, we flew out of Pease AFB, and, along with a KC-10, dragged a gaggle of F-4Es over.
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229639-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229646-L.jpg
Here's my aircraft commander, Capt. Ray Parrish. He's flying for American Airlines these days. I owe him an e-mail, I'll have to pass these along:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229690-L.jpg
Boom Operator Sgt. Danny South handling some paperwork along the way:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229712-L.jpg
Once we got to Mildenhall, we flew several missions refueling Luftwaffe Tornados. This was back in the Cold War days, while Germany was still East and West - on a couple of these Tornado missions, we were working over the "buffer zone", a 10-mile stretch on our side of the border with East Germany. The Tornados use a probe and drouge system, so we had a drouge attachment on the end of the boom:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229615-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229632-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229652-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229728-L.jpg
On final approach to RAF Mildenhall on a gloomy day:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229664-L.jpg
We got to spend one weekend in London, here are a few shots:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229544-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229530-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229501-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229487-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229411-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229455-L.jpg
These were shot with a Yashica SLR, Kodak slide film (probably Ektachrome 400ASA). I still have to play with the scanner some, figure out the "dust and scratch" elimation software, and then I have another 25 years worth of slides to go through...it's going to be a long night :D
On the way over, we flew out of Pease AFB, and, along with a KC-10, dragged a gaggle of F-4Es over.
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229639-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229646-L.jpg
Here's my aircraft commander, Capt. Ray Parrish. He's flying for American Airlines these days. I owe him an e-mail, I'll have to pass these along:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229690-L.jpg
Boom Operator Sgt. Danny South handling some paperwork along the way:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229712-L.jpg
Once we got to Mildenhall, we flew several missions refueling Luftwaffe Tornados. This was back in the Cold War days, while Germany was still East and West - on a couple of these Tornado missions, we were working over the "buffer zone", a 10-mile stretch on our side of the border with East Germany. The Tornados use a probe and drouge system, so we had a drouge attachment on the end of the boom:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229615-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229632-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229652-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229728-L.jpg
On final approach to RAF Mildenhall on a gloomy day:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229664-L.jpg
We got to spend one weekend in London, here are a few shots:
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229544-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229530-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229501-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229487-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229411-L.jpg
http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/133229455-L.jpg
These were shot with a Yashica SLR, Kodak slide film (probably Ektachrome 400ASA). I still have to play with the scanner some, figure out the "dust and scratch" elimation software, and then I have another 25 years worth of slides to go through...it's going to be a long night :D