International Air Show, Manila, Philippines

November 1960 - International Airshow at Manila airport in the Philippines. Australian, Chinese Nationals, Philippine and US Navy aircraft were participants. I was assigned to a Communcations Transceiver/Generator for the US Navy part of the Airshow. So I had a closeup view of all of the action.
The generator was pulled behind a NAS Sangley Point Crash Truck which we road to Manila Airport on. The photos were taken by Bob Pritzl (except for the ones with him in the picture).

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> Manila Airport - November 1960 - Australian Canberra - Photo by Bob Pritzl. On its entry into service at RAF Binbrook in 1951, the B.2 Canberra was considered to be the replacement bomber for the RAF's Avro Lincolns and B-29 Washington B-1s.

> US Navy Aircraft off of US Carriers vicinity of Manila Bay. November 1960 - Photo by Bob Pritzl from Intersection at Manila Airport

> Manila Airport - November 1960 - Sailor is Bob Pritzl standing in front of communications generator which was moved to the middle of the field and used for control of the US Fleet aircraft participating in the Manila International Airshow.

> Manila Airport - November 1960 - three S2F's (Tracker) on a low pass. Photo by Bob Pritzl

> Manila Airport - November 1960 -Australian "Vulcan" on a low pass. The Vulcan started life as the Avro 698. Manufactured by Avro (part of Hawker Siddeley), Manchester (final assembly at Woodford, Manchester) in 1952. Photo by Bob Pritzl.

> Manila Airport - November 1960 - Taken from the middle of the airport intersection. Crowd control was aided by a Crash Truck spraying water to keep the crowd from the runways. Photo by Bob Pritzl

> Manila Airport - November 1960 - Austrailian Cargo plane was demostrating it's accuracy supply drops with 500 lb sandbags. After I took this shot, I looked down and was forwarding the film. The crowd noise became suspiciously "different". I looked up to see this 500 lb bag at the end of a "foiled" (candlestick) parachute heading directly at me. I jumped/ran onto the runway until I heard the splat which was about 3 seconds after I saw it. It dug a trench and spread sand right about 10 feet from where I HAD been standing.

Manila Airport - November 1960 - Australian Canberra - Photo by Bob Pritzl. On its entry into service at RAF Binbrook in 1951, the B.2 Canberra was considered to be the replacement bomber for the RAF's Avro Lincolns and B-29 Washington B-1s.

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