Not the usual trip report, but a most interesting visit for me during August this year. While being on holiday in Lebanon I had the rare opportunity to visit Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport to ...
... does it by plane. In my opinion touching down on ice or snow on skids is way cooler than ‘just’ taking a helicopter ride. Flights depart from Mt. Cook Airport, which is located not very far from Mt. Cook ...
... for Phantoms, and as it could easily be reached from Tokyo and its international airports, it soon became a ‚Phantom Mecca’ for Phantom Phans from all over the world.
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... of the civil airport‘s terminal. It offers convenient facilities, good photo possibilities for any night flying activities and on the civil apron, furthermore during winter you can warm up inside the terminal. ...
... in surrounding grain fields or home’s front gardens.
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On 7 and 8 June the Dakotas could be visited at the Caen Carpiquet airport. However, ...
... and participating aircraft are either based and nearby RNZAF Base Woodbourne (Blenheim airport) or fly in directly from their homebase. In this year the P-3K Orion Maritime Patrol Aircraft could not participate ...
Swiss Tigers are facing their extinction! 110 have originally been ordered by the Swiss Air Force. Nowadays their number is down to only 27. Apart from the F/A-18 Hornets, the F-5s are the Swiss Air Forces ...
... airport, the site of the “Munich massacre” during the 1972 Summer Olympics. Overflying those two sites, the two Air Forces did not only honor the tens of thousands of victims of the NS regime, but put ...
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Flying takes place in an airspace that extends from the Red Sea up North to the Dead Sea. This does only restricted the airport in Tel Aviv, but also the flight operations at the new civil airport at ...
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Hsinchu and the Mirage 2000
Quickly after arriving at Taipei Taoyuan International airport (TPE) the trip started with a first visit to Hsinchu Airbase. This base is situated in the North Western part ...
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Where? Líně Airport, Pilsen, Czech Republic When? 08-09/09/2018
Arriving on the day before the show turned out to be a good idea. As part of the festivities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of ...
... Airport, Kyushu, Japan When? 02/12/2018
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The row of Phantoms was impressive. Ten Phantoms stood ready for the flying display at ...
... July 28, 2018, at Bucharest International Airport Baneasa. With a slow start of the flying display at 9am in the morning, it really kicked of with the opening fly-by of Forțele Aeriene Române / Romanian ...
... for a final time. But the hopes for good photos were gone by that time anyhow, and still seeing some of the Tornados in the cloudy sky over Marham while driving back to the airport was somehow fitting ...
... mix on show at Ellington Airport in the South of Houston was enriched by aerobatic acts and the USAF Thunderbirds. With a 34-year long history the airshow is still very much alive and kicking!
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... With US Navy Hornets circling overhead in the pattern of nearby NAS Oceana, the red-white checkered water tower of the Virginia Beach Airport (42VA) becomes clearly visible when heading out South of Virginia ...
... saw for the first time in more than 60 years two B-29 Superfortresses flying in formation. Apart from that once again more than 10.000 aircraft flew to Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, making ...
The SU-27 Flanker, MiG-21 LanceR and MiG-29 Fulcrum are apart from being three Cold War warriors and rare Russian-build jets three excellent airshow acts that you can hardly argue about. For its 2016 edition ...
A thick layer of haze above Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, made things look rather fuzzy for this year’s edition of ADEX 2015 (Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition). Flying displays ...
... cannot be said necessarily of other places on the Northern hemisphere.
Where? Dubai World Central Airport / DWC, UAE When? 08-12/11/2015
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In previous years the Dubai Airshow ...
