{"id":3709,"date":"2026-10-27T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:50:15","slug":"back-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/back-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A small selection of my scanned slides from the National Capital Air Show, at Ottawa International Airport circa 1990~95. Images shot on 35mm Fujichrome 100 with a Pentax LX 35mm film SLR camera and a SMC Pentax-M\u2729 300mm f:4 prime lens

The highlight of the 1990 show was the MiG-29 “Fulcrum”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The USN countered with their F-14 Tomcat, Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) VF-14 “Tophatters”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The USN also brought up several of their F-16N Agressors, but I haven’t scanned those. The USAF brought their F-15 Eagles. FF “First Fighters” (historically known as the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing), based out of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The USAF F-15 Strike Eagle, of the 4th Fighter Wing based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RF-4 Phantom Mississippi ANG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

USAF B-1B Lancer nicknamed the BONE, based at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

USAF F-117A Nighthawk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RCAF CC-137 (Boeing 707) aerial tanker with a CF-5 and CF-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Below CF-18 on static display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A small selection of my scanned slides from the National Capital Air Show, at Ottawa International Airport circa 1990~95. Images shot on 35mm Fujichrome 100 with a Pentax LX 35mm…<\/p>\n

Read the postBack to the past<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,37,5,10,40,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airshows","category-aviation","category-equipment","category-pentax","category-sky","category-uncategorized","excerpt","zoom","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrelllarose.ca\/www\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}