... was already fulfilled. I came to see the MiG-29 flying, and trailing its distinctive black smoke trails, coming out of the Klimov RD-33 engines.
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... has been stationed at Ingolstadt-Manching airfield ever since. Compared to other Boeing Stearman, this aircraft is powered by a rather strong Pratt & Whitney R-985 9-cylinder radial engine. 450PS guarantee ...
... a great airshow asset. Of course it was presented in hover flight configuration, with swivel engine and open doors and making lots of noise.
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... national emblems, this was a particularly daring undertaking.
Following that, the landing with engine failure in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia was also unplanned, and the bureaucratic hurdles that resulted ...
... blast, and even more soon around the annual airshow in December: plenty of flying activity of three different Squadrons, each one of them operating a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas fighter: 301 Hikotai ...
... with the Spanish Air Force considered as a Spanish license-build version “CASA 352L” of the German Junkers Ju 52/3m (3m standing for “3 Motoren” – three engines), a German identification plate was discovered. ...
... reduced numbers. All of New Zealand-based Spitfires were flown in close formation: the elegant Spitfire Mk.IX, the powerful Spitfire Mk.XIV.e with its Rolls-Royce Griffon engine and the two-seater Spitfire ...
... amazing photoflight.
Where? Cuatro-Vientos / Madrid, Spain When? October 2018
Looking at the airplane with its stubby fuselage and that huge nine-cylinder Shvetsov radial engine it already becomes ...
... from a grass strip, and even fewer are the opportunities it see it from up so close. Legendary fighters such as the Spitfire, Fury, Mustang or Buchon (the Spanish Messerschmitt Bf109) start up their engines ...
10.000ft above Belgium the howling sound of the Lockheed Martin’s F-16AM Fighting Falcon F100 jet engine could clearly be heard. No wonder, as the Demo Pilot for the Belgian Air Force, Sr. Cpt Darte, callsign ...
... The main difference from the Spitfire Mk.IX has been the US and licence-build Packard Merlin 266 engine. It was optimized to fly at low level, subsequently the Mk.XVI Spitfires also received the LF-designation ...
... airfield. With its canopy and engines missing it was most likely taken to be scrapped.
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Later in the morning the successor of the Tornado ...
... only got the wings down when the engines fired up for the flying display. For the Naval tribute however the Red Bull Corsair did not fly, as it only participated in the Flying Bulls choreography later ...
... stop during the Tsuiki airshow rush: queuing to finally get on the main ramp! The first act on the flying program was listed at 8am, and this means engine start up approximately 20 min earlier and start ...
... aircraft without engine. It was released from its towplane at a rather impressive altitude and must be one of, if not the purest way of flying!
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... that with a nice sound from its Merlin III engine.
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The Fighter Collection
This prelude kicked off the airshow for the afternoon, which ...
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Warbirds at EAA Airventure 2017
Plenty of warbirds from all types were assembled there. Commemorating the Doolittle raid on one day around a dozen twin-engine B-25 Mitchell ...
... in the cockpit. The engines are started with the aircraft still on the tug and the aircraft is ready to go within minutes. Cavern doors just open very shortly for aircraft movements. All this is quite ...
... from a first sight that pure aerodynamics and esthetics are combined in these kind of aircraft. Time to go for a nice photo session with such an engineering piece of art!
Where? Eichstätt, Bavaria, ...
... Stiftung Europe’s sole Messerschmitt Me262 fascinated the visitors. It was followed later in the afternoon by the Messerschmitt Bf109 „Rote 7“. The remarkable sound of the Daimler Benz DB605 engine actually ...
