MY Kodak Hawkeye lens about 1952-3 !

Is that an Avro Vulcan in the top photo? (Of course it is; you said so in your text! )

Nice shots!

The Mighty Vulcan!! I saw a par of them at an airshow in Maine many years ago . . . . most awesome aircraft ever built.

At 1/40th of a second I’m surprised the bomber wasn’t stretched more! I have several Hawkeyes, some with an operative shutter, that I need to use. I have ambitions of converting one with a broken shutter into a pinhole camera one day. So many projects, so little time!

Stan

I saw a Vulcan in 1979 at the Jersey Airport Battle of Britain commemoration show. The pilot rotated the thing at about half the runway length, flew straight and level to the end of the runway at a height of a couple of yards, and then zoomed straight up and out of sight. I was a temporary member of the Channel Islands Aero Club at the time, and one of the members and I were watching the show. When the Vulcan did its thing, my fellow club member (can't remember his name, dammit) turned to me and quietly but admiringly said "Bloody Hell." There was nothing to do but nod assent. The shot here brings it all back . . .

Fashion was a little different then, n'est pas?

in 1959 I got a job as 'Photographer' in the Ministry of Aviation, Air Technical Publications Branch and one job was going to aircraft factories with a Plate Camera to photograph many 'Secret' things ( which the Russians and Chinese probably already knew about !! ) and I had to go to the AVRO Factory and get up in a VULCAN and photograph cockpit instruments, hydraulics etc etc all 'secret' .It is HUGE to get up the ladder into the aircraft.

Good work. I know is not easy to aim this camera. Good job on catching the speeding bomber.