... plenty of photo opportunities.
Where? Lagerlechfeld, Germany When? 01/2011
The main focus of this day were the two special coloured jets currently based at Lagerlechfeld:
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... also generally a good travel season, as the hot and humid summer is gone and the weather is getting more stable. For the photographers, this means a nice blue sky, autumn colours in the trees and a low ...
... maka" is not-for-nothing one of the advertising slogans for the show, and is very well representative for the spectacle that brings up new highlights every other year.
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Daily Colourspots
This accessibility combined with lots of flying provided plenty of photo opportunities during just two days. On days without night flying they Squadron flew four waves a day ...
... this rare aircraft. And obviously it was painted in the colour scheme of “CM-249”, representing the aircraft of Spain’s most prominent and even legendary fighter pilot Captain Jose Maria Bravo, commanding ...
... however might have been the "Baghdad Fury", a Belgium-based Hawker Fury FB10 in the brown camouflage colours of the Iraqi Air Force. It showed up on Sunday morning and flew that same day in formation wi ...
... e ROCAF Hercules’ South-East Asian (SAE) camouflage colours.
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At around that time it unfortunately became clear that the upcoming typho ...
... e operates out of the Czech’s Flying Legends hangar at Plzen-Line. It changes its colour scheme quite regularly to gice some variety. Additionally to that the wingtips can be changed rather easily to sh ...
... Marham‘s media office distributed some souvenir photos that have been taken during an air-air photoflight of the three-ship formation of the special coloured jets.
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... stay in the US it returned as “Nellie” in the colours of an aircraft of the 48th FG 492 FS.
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RAF100 - Centenary of the Royal Air Force ...
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Swedish Saab Sk60 and Soviet-era Fighters
Not so noisy was the Swedish Saab Sk60 routine, but it is a nice plane in nice colours ...
... and JASDF F-15 Eagle Flying Display
With the grey sky the colourscheme of the JGSDF AH-64 Apache also literally drowned and became dark gray, the same goes for the 304 Hikotai F-15J Eagle, that came ...
... and they even changed their colour from blue to grey at the beginning of the flying display.
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The highlight towards the end of the flying display was of course the big ...
... to their Transall, including the Special coloured aircraft 50+64 carrying the Bavarian Slogan "Servus Transall...mach's guad!".
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... ed in the photoflight! Flying around the autumn-coloured trees around the Teck castle gave an impression of what it must have been to see this aircraft in its former role.
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... Mostly striking was a silver painted Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, which caught attention in its original silver colourscheme. It was displayed right along one of the Tornado prototypes, which was recently ...
... 16 Blackhawk helicopter. The Slovak AF put a special coloured MiG-29UBS in the dispersal area, and the ‘glas nose’ Let L-410FG for photogrammetry was a nother aircraft rarely seen around airshows. Aero ...
... gadget on the flightline was the Atlas Cheetah D. It is not anymore within active SAAF service, but is used by the industry as a testbed. In the colours of South African flag this twin-seater example was ...
... stinctive white shoulder is more photogenic than the White-tailed Eagle and a more camouflaged body colour in overall brown.
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... the runway. Quite easy, and especially in the year I was really pleased by the big variation of different C-130 Hercules from the Middle East that are still painted in a nice, varied colourscheme and no ...
