Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Early aviation day

Posted Friday, June 28, 2013, at 10:55 AM

G.D. Fronabarger made this undated picture at Harris Field, later Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport, on what appears to be aviation day.

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U.S. Navy PBY Catalina at Harris Field

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Here's Aviation Day in 1964:

http://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/cape-aviation-day-1964/

-- Posted by ksteinhoff on Sat, Jun 29, 2013, at 12:54 AM

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