I have very vague memories of this airshow. It was one of the first outings for my new Canon 35mm film SLR with it’s 75 – 300mm zoom lens which I thought was the bees’ knees until I whipped it out in front of geeks who wouldn’t remove a lens cap off anything smaller that 100 – 400mm. Still, you are pretty close to the action at Elvington so it sufficed for my limited aspirations at that time. I hadn’t passed my driving test at that time so I must have got a special airshow bus from Leeds or York to the airshow.

I really didn’t have a clue with aviation photography back in those days but everyone has to start somewhere, right? Also of interest, when I got these processed I also got digital copies on a CD which seemed pretty exciting at the time!

I used one roll of film for that airshow – 36 exposures! You can fire that off shooting a single aeroplane now with digital – indeed sometimes up in the stands I hear people shooting on high speed loose off about 50 shots on a single pass in a monstrous spray and pray fashion.