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Gilze Rijen - autumn 2010
I visited Gilze Rijen when the apaches
returned from Afghanistan inside an AN124. This was really an
impressive sight when it landed on RWY28. Later visits resulted
in some local based helicopters that posed very nicely in front
of my lens. |
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Davis Monthan - 24/11/2010
Davis-Monthan AFB, near Tucson, Arizona
is best known for the AMARG aircraft boneyard, but it's also
the homebase of the 355 FW which fly the A-10 and EC-130H. |
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Volkel - 25/10/2010
A nice afternoon with some sun and
airplanes, what do you want more... |
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Volkel - Tigermeet 07/10/2010
This day the first spottersday was
organised. It was a very good organisation, but unfortunatly
the very bad weather spoiled it all... |
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Volkel - Tigermeet 06/10/2010
This day the weather was not good.
A Norwegian F-16BM and Austrian Saab 105 arrived, a Mirage 2000C
was changed and there was a visit from an Italian P180, French
Alpha jet from Dijon and French TBM700. |
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Volkel - Tigermeet 05/10/2010
This was the first mission day. There
was a lot of traffic, and at noon there was even some sun when
the first wave returned back. |
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Volkel - Tigermeet 04/10/2010
Every year all sqn's with a tiger
in their emblem that joined the tiger association come together
for a big excercise. This year it was held at Volkel AFB in
the Netherlands, homebase of 313 Tiger Sqn of the RNLAF. Here
is a picturereport of the arrivalsday |
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Sanicole - airshow 19/09/2010
On Sunday the full program was flown
with highlights like the Apache, Redbull Cobra, F-16, the Skyhawks,
Team Viper, and the Aerostars. Incredible that a private aeroclub
without a big runway can attract such nice participants and
35000 spectators. |
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Sanicole - sunset show 17/09/2010
For the first time in Europe there
was an airshow during the sunset with the beautifull skies of
a dissapearing sun. What else do you need for some special pictures,
offcourse some fireworks added to the displays. Well we had
it all, enjoy this gallery |
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Aviano - 10/09/2010
Our second day in Aviano we were more
lucky with the weather. We got nice local traffic untill 14h00.
Then the base went to sleep and we went to Rivolto. |
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Aviano - 9/09/2010
This year we went to Italy for the
Frecce Tricolori anniversary airshow at Rivolto. The days before
the show we went to the nearby USAFE base in Aviano. This is
what we saw on our first afternoon. |
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Zeebrugge - navy days 4/07/2010
The open days at the Belgian Navy
always attracts some special helicopters. This year a US Navy
Seahawk was boarded on the deck of USS Mount Withney, but
the Sea King stole the show with a great display between the
ships. |
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Beauvechain - airshow (Flying
display) 3/07/2010
The flying display consisted of a
lot of solo displays. Fast jets like F/A-18C, rafale, gripen,
3 F-16's, Tornado role demo were accompagnied by trainer displays
like Saab 105, Camo milles and tucano. Also the vintage aircraft
lovers got some nice displays like Flying bulls DC-6 and Corsair,
hunter and Fouga magister. Except for the base Hardship red
and the Morocco Marche Verte there were no jetteams. |
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Beauvechain - airshow (Static
display) 3/07/2010
The yearly Belgian Air Force airshow
this year was held at Beauvechain in the beginning of July.
On Friday during the arrivals it was very beautifull but hot
weather. There were some nice and special aircraft in the static,
but also a lot of cancellations... An impression. |
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Cambrai - airshow (arrivals)
25/06/2010
The last airshow ever at BA103
Cambrai was a great show with a lot of specials. On Friday
they organised a very good spottersday to witness the arrivals
and rehearsals. |
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Reims - 24/06/2010
On June 24 it was the disbandment
ceremony of one of the 2 Sqn's based at Reims flying with
Mirage F-1CR, ER 1/33 Belfort. For this occasion some visitors
came to Reims (Cartouche Dorée and a Mirage F-1 from
Mont-de-Marsan) and also a formation was flown during the
ceremony. For this occasion they also made a beautifull decorated
Mirage... |
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Gilze Rijen - spring 2010
This spring I went a couple of
times to the main helicopter base of the RNLAF where there
is always something to see. Also the photographic spots around
the airfield is superb, like the famous slopes and the beginning
of RWY28. I also had excellent weather conditions during some
visits that resulted in great pictures... |
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Gilze Rijen - opendagen (part
2) 18 & 19/06/2010
Part 2 of the showdays is all about
noise, afterburners, fighters, displayteams and lots more,
enjoy... |
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Gilze Rijen - opendagen (part
1) 18 & 19/06/2010
Part 1 of the showdays are the
helicopter displays and displayteams. One of the main showitems
was again the airpowerdemo which shows what the RNLAF is really
doing, always very impressive. |
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Gilze Rijen - opendagen (arrivals)
17/06/2010
After 5 years there was again a
big airshow at Gilze Rijen. GRAS spotters organised a perfect
spottersday for the arrivals of the airshow. There were some
great participants in the flying display as well as the static
display. |
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Hyeres - airshow 13/06/2010
The airshow was full of special
displays like Spanish harrier, 4 USN F-18F, A-380, Rafale,
Tigre and some vintage aircraft. Ofcourse the French Navy
showed all their aircraft in their inventory to the huge crowd
that came to the Naval Air Station, and all this in real summerconditions... |
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Hyeres - spottersday 12/06/2010
The day before the 100th anniversary
of the Aeronavale, aircraft enthousiasts were invited on the
base to see the arrivals and rehearsals from close by. |
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Wittmund - 26/05/2010
On our second day, the weather
was less good with much more clouds. Flying activity was medium,
but at least we saw some phantoms flying. First RWY28 was
in use, afterwards they switched to RWY08, which gave some
variation in the pictures. |
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Wittmund - 25/05/2010
As the end of the phantoms is approaching
fast, we made a 1200km trip again and headed back to Wittmund
to enjoy the sound of the J79 engines. On our first day, flying
was good, and even the weather was nice. In the evening we
tried something else and went a bit further in the approach
to have some banking shots. |
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Reims-Champagne - 21/05/2010
With the closure of Reims in our
mind we had already a long time plans to visit Reims for some
F-1 action. We were lucky and saw 8 different aircraft on
a Friday in very nice weather. |
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Florennes - 20/05/2010
One year ago I was there on the
same day for the last TLP course, so I descided to go again
for some nostalgy. In 3 hours time we saw 12 F-16's, 2 A-10's
and 1 C-130, so not bad at all... |
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Woensdrecht - 20/04/2010
Due to the ashcloud over Europe,
our trip to Frisian flag was cancelled, but the nice weather
on Tuesday took me for 2 hours of spotting in Woensdrecht
with lots of PC-7's. |
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Coventry - Midland Air Museum
16/04/2010
The museum has a very nice collection
of aircraft. It is dedicated to the local engeneer Sir Frank
Whittle who designed the Jet Engine. |
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Hendon - RAF museum 11/04/2010
A very nice collection of historical
airplanes in superb conditions. We can really recommand this
museum. |
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Volkel - 2 &
4/03/2010
Demo training of the new display
pilot led us to Volkel AFB for 2 days of F-16 spotting at
this nice Dutch AFB. |
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Ramstein - 3/03/2010
Nice weather and the need for
heavy transport airplanes gives the result for a trip to Ramstein. |
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Kleine Brogel - 26/01/2010
I read on the internet that 4
Cambrai M2000's would come to KB for a small sqn exhange.
As they have no long time to go, I went to have a look and
the weather was really great that day. |
