During a display at Belle Chase Naval airbase near New Orleans a Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter / Stratotanker, a Grumman F-14D Tomcat & a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II are lined up on the runway.

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A flight of four F100D Super Sabres on the ground prior to a close formation flying display during an open day at Belle Chase Naval airbase in Louisiana.

First flown in 1953, the F-100 Super Sabre was developed from the F-86, and was the world’s first fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Used widely during the Vietnam War, the North American F-100D was the fighter-bomber version of the F-100 interceptor and first entered service in 1956.

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A 2.5 minute video of the journey from Wolsztyn to Poznan in western Poland behind PKP Ol49 2-6-2 59 on the 11.13 train.

Stanislav the driver was on the regulator & Pietr the fireman. I was allowed to drive most of the intermediate section of the 50 mile journey but Stanislav handled the departure from Wolsztyn and the arrival under the wires of the Berlin-Warsaw main line at Poznan.

Obviously there is no footage of me driving & the sequence ends on shed at Poznan on the lay-over before returning on the 15.15 to Wolsztyn.

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Spot the Ball.

The New Orleans Jazz were a NBA Basketball team & played in the Louisiana Superdome, on this night they were up against the Chicago Bulls but I forget the final score. However the power of the internet tells me the Jazz won 5-1.

In 1979 the owner of the team decided to move his team to Utah where it became the Utah Jazz. Surprisingly because Salt Lake City had no history of playing Jazz!

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Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co standard gauge 2-8-0 Number 3, a H.K.Porter Company of Pittsburgh, PA product, dating from 1914, "preserved" in Depot Park in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. I don't know what condition it is in today but it certainly wasn't brilliant in 1977.

We had driven out of New Orleans towards Baton Rouge & about half way there came across this locomotive rusting away in a park in Ponchatoula, a small town established in 1820 as a logging camp, and couldn't resist a photo.

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