> Welcome

Welcome to the aviation picture gallery of Tom and Wim Houquet. Here you can find a selection of aviation photographs taken at different events across Europe. The website will be regulary updated with new picture galleries. Please click on the thumbnales to view the images.

> Latest additions

Fête de l'air, Valenciennes 14/07/2009

A superb airshow at the airfield of Valenciennes with some top acts in the flying display.


Volkel Opendagen 2009

The Netherlands Air Force opendagen yearly attracks a great selection of displays, this year including the Vulcan and a Polish Mig 29 display.


Yeovilton Air Day 2009

100 years of naval aviation was celebrated during the 2009 air day at RNAS Yeovilton, resulting in a large amount of naval helicopters and aircraft participants the airshow.


Meeting du centenaire, Reims - 28/06/2009

The celebration of the first airshow, one hundred years ago, took place at the Mirage F-1 homebase, Reims - champagne.


Switzerland March 2009

One of the most beautifull places to photograph military Jets must be Switzerland. Here you can find the best photographs of one week Meiringen, Alpnach and Emmen.


Kecskemet airshow 2008- arrivals

The day before the Kecskemet airshow, a lot of aircraft arrived and rehearsalled their demonstration against a clear blue sky and a temperature of 40°C.

 

> Picture galleries 2008

Picture gallery 2008

Galleries including trips to Switzerland, Wittmund (home of the mighty Phantom), Ramstein, Cambrai, Florennes (TLP) and airshows like Farnborough and Kecskemet.

To view all picturegalleries from 2008, click on the thumbnail

> Picture galleries 2007

Pictures gallery 2007

Galleries including the RAF Jaguar farewell, trips to Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Coningsby. And many airshows like Biggin Hill, Volkel and Le Bourget.

To view all picturegalleries from 2007, click on the thumbnail.

> About us

We, Tom and Wim, live in De Panne (Belgium west-coast), close to Koksijde airbase, and are passionated by aviation since we were young. In 1998 we started photographing and visiting airshows and other aviation events in Belgium and surrounding countries. Since then we created a nice photocollection of many different aircraft types from around the world. Living under the approach of Koksijde airbase we can regulary be found near our "homebase". In 2002 we created the website of Spotting Group Koksijde, bringing the local aviation enthousiast together.

Some of our photographs have allready been published in magazines (Scramble magazine, Aermacchi world, Revista Aeronautica, Volare,...), company publications, aviation websites (www.airliners.net , www.airshows.be ,...), airshow publications,... High resolution photographs can be arranged by contacting us via e-mail.

If you have questions or remarks, don't hesitate to contact us via email (contact@sgkoksijde.be).

> Equipment

Since 2005 we changed to digital photography. The equipment we use is Canon material enabeling us to shoot high quality photographs in all ranges and in different types of weather conditions.

  • Canon EOS20D body
  • Canon EOS40D body
  • Canon EOS400D body
  • Canon EF-S 17-85mm F4-5.6 IS USM
  • Canon EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM
  • Canon EF 400mm F5.6L USM
  • Canon EF 1.4x Extender II
  • Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM

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