I hit the mother lode!

[moose135]

I was going through a closet tonight, and found two shopping bags full of little yellow Kodak slide boxes! In addition to the usual family and vacation stuff, I found lots of shots from various air shows at McGuire AFB in the late 70s and early 80s, AFROTC base visits, and such. It's going to take a while just to figure out what everything is, let alone scan stuff in, but here are a few I did a quick scan of tonight. These are from JFK, August 1980:

TWA 747-131 N93106



TWA 727-231 N54331


Pan Am 747SP N537PA


Pan Am 747 landing


Pan Am 707, retired from active service, parked behind Hangar 14


Flemington International Lockheed Electra N664F


Pretty crappy shot, but it's a Pilgram Airlines Twin Otter, N128PM


And a couple more, just for fun. During my AFROTC days, I spent 3 weeks during the summer of 1982 at Holloman AFB on a "3rd Lt" training program, getting a chance to see life in the "Real Air Force". I have some cool shots from there (as I remember, haven't found all the little yellow boxes from Holloman) but here are a couple I scanned in.

My "lean, mean, fighting machine" days :D



Here I am (lower left) with some of the other guys in the program. For the most part, I haven't seen any of these guys since then (I ended up in pilot training with the guy on the lower right) but last week, I discovered the guy in the middle (with the goofy pose) on another message board, one for plastic model aircraft. I sent him this picture tonight, but haven't heard back from him yet. He flys F-22 these days.

[NIKV69]

Awesome Moose! That 727 is awesome! Not to mention you back in the day!

[PhilDernerJr]

Wow, Moose, some really great stuff there. What an awesome find you made.

Did your Air Force buddies call you Moose back then? Has that always been your nickname?

Is that Pan Am Landing on 13L by the cargo area?

[T-Bird76]

Moose the fly boy! WOW awsome stuff Moose! i love it,

[moose135]

Wow, Moose, some really great stuff there. What an awesome find you made.

Did your Air Force buddies call you Moose back then? Has that always been your nickname?

Is that Pan Am Landing on 13L by the cargo area?

Yeah, I've been called Moose all my life. My dad has been called Moose most of his life, too.

Yes, that landing lights shot was over at 13L. The TWA and 747SP shots were at the end of 13R. I worked security at Pan Am weekends and summers while I was in college, primarily down at the hangars, and I often got to be the patrol driver. Those shots were taken out behind Hangar 14.

[Derf]

WOW!!!!! :shock:

[mirrodie]

OMG Moose, that is AWESOME! more more more!!!

[Tom_Turner]

Great find Moose!

Don't think I've seen the Fleming Electra before - not at JFK at least.

Tom

[SengaB]

JOHN! you are now the master!

Senga

[USAF Pilot 07]

Sweet pics Moose!

On a related note, you looked EXACTLY like one of my friends does. I think there's a picture of him, in his flight suit, in the same kind of position you are in (in that 2nd picture), and the similarites are crazy!