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Rare darts at Southend

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Rare darts at Southend

Post by PorkScratching » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:08 pm

A couple of Dart powered rarities photographed at Saarfend back in 2001:

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Trygon NAMC YS-11A by nickchalloner, on Flickr

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Royal Tongan Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Series 2A by nickchalloner, on Flickr

The quality isn't brilliant due to them being taken on my first digital camera - a 1.2MP Fuji compact! I also photographed them with my film SLR, but haven't scanned them yet.
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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by Nighthawke » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:17 pm

I'll take content like that over image quality any time! Never even seen an A3- frame.

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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by EGVP » Fri May 01, 2015 9:25 am

Very nice Nick, YS-11 as a type and 9U and A3 as regs are all new to me! :thumb:

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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by Bradley Bygrave » Fri May 01, 2015 11:34 am

Nice Photos!

I think the YS11 In your pictures caught fire when a 'stray firework' hit it....
Only the fuselage burnt...
Shame we don't go many of them around these days!!

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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by marpleman » Fri May 01, 2015 6:42 pm

Wonderful pictures, and only back in 2001 !!! I'd have dated them way before that , didn't even realise there had been a YS-11 in this country

Got any more?

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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by PorkScratching » Sat May 02, 2015 7:33 pm

Thanks for the comments. Shame about the firework! Marpleman I don't have any more I'm afraid - I'm not a regular at Southend, but having learned they were parked/stored I made sure I took a detour when I was in the area to get some shots, as others have said you don't photograph aircraft with A3 and 9U registrations very often! And I really wanted to make sure I had some photos of a YS-11 in my collection too.

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Re: Rare darts at Southend

Post by mozzer » Sat May 16, 2015 8:03 pm

Great pictures, didnt realise a Ys11 had been seen in the UK.

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