... a one-day drive.
Where? central Honshu, Japan When? November / December 2018
Between late September and Christmas, airshows in Japan nearly take place on a weekly basis. This time of the year is ...
... when the RNZAF disbanded its last A-4 Skyhawks. The secret star of the show, which focuses on propeller-driven aircraft, was however once again the FlugWerk FW190. It celebrated a new maiden flight after ...
... this year.
The following drive to the East coast towards Taitung / Taidong was long and relaxing. Just right to digest those bad news...
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The Tsuiki airshow 2018 was a blast! After some visits to this show two important things for a successful event came together that year: great flying and nice weather. As the weather can get nasty at the ...
... by the precursor of today’s NASA this P-63 was extensively used in aerodynamics research when the speed of propeller-driven aircraft reached their limits in the dawn of the jet age.
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The showsite itself is located at Ostrava airport in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, approximately a 3hrs drive away from the countries capital Prague, and is actually closer located ...
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More harmonic was the presentation of the propeller-driven Sea Fury and the jet-powered Hunter, complemented during the day by a Vampire that was another historic jet in the air ...
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However only one day of sun during the week was a bit sparse, and making the drive to Nyutabaru to stand there in the ...
... of the country, especially if you want to drive from East to West. Maybe this is not the case for the typical tourist, who comes to Taiwan and is attracted by the "Taipei 101" skyscraper in the capital ...
... A short drive along the lake finally revealed the desired view and the leafs of the trees were still showing their autumn colours, however the top of Mt. Fuji was not yet covered with snow and in the short ...
... mountain region, Sliac is about a 2h drive from the capital Bratislava, with several picturesque cities nearby that make it easy to spent some nice evenings after the long and exhausting show days.
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... why I went there. I just wanted to see this approximately 40m high mausoleum completely made from marble between 1632-1653 with my own eyes.
The 200km drive from Delhi to Agra in the middle of the night ...
... at 5,5hrs (for 250km...). I decided to for the second proposal and a truck driver that was leading me at times with around 100km/h on the rural roads was quite good to arrive at our destination a bit earlier ...
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After the end of the show I was in the car already very early at around 4pm and started the drive to Fukuoka. Before going ...
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Though the propeller-driven planes such as the An-12, An-140 or An-22 did not take-off, flight presentations were shown by the civil An-148, its successor and stretched version An-158, An-74 STOL freighter, ...
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After they all were back safe on the ground and the visitors in their cars to drive home in the dark, it started drizzling again, just in time to head to the nearest Pub ...
... to hit the road again and drive back the ~250km – or 6hre on Japanese roads… - to Tsuiki, to see at least some of the way during daylight.
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After another night in ...
In Spring 2009 it was time for another trip to Japan, concentrating on the area around Tokyo and mainly driven by the fact that the – until then – Naha Phantoms of 302 Hikotai have moved to Hyakuri, making ...
... And we had our first Schnitzel with rice on the motorway restaurant, bringing back a lot of memories from 2005!
Fortunately it was not a drive in uncertainty as the navigation system showed us the ...
... to stand around in T-Shirt during the day. With the setting sun it became however cold again and we got in the car to start the drive towards Kagoshima, where we wanted to be the next day.
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