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 ...
... German and Swiss pilots knew them already very well and were used to the airspace. Therefore two missions were flown every day, with 4 Hornets and 4 MiGs every time. On the following photo pages you can ...
... g“ pulls that produce a clearly visible condensation over the wings when the jets disengage the target and head for terrain cover once again.
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Premiere for thundering Australian Hornets
Another obvious highlight was the participation of three Australian F/A-18 Hornets. Since the First World War, Australia’s and New Zealand’s Armed Forces ...
... that some of the airplanes listed on the events website did not show up for any other reason. NASA’s WB-57, F/A-18 Hornet or the S-3 Viking did not attend, even though the Canberra is based at Ellington ...
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Foreign air arms participation was present by the Czech and Hungarian Saab Gripen, the Austrian Air Force Saab105OE, and the Spanish Air Force EF-18 Hornet, which presented an impressive demo with plenty ...
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Spanish Hornet and German Tornado
In your author’s opinion this fine piece of flying was just excelled by the Spanish F/A-18 / EF-18MHornet demo. To see how the display pilot presented the Hornet at ...
... VFA-122. The humidity coming from the nearby Gulf of Mexico produced amazing vapor cones during the Super Hornet display.
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Anyway the weather was rather unsettled. Being ...
... Fliegerschiessen in 2017 F/A-18 Hornets and F-5E Tigers opened the program by flying the shooting pattern and performed live firing training within the view of the spectators. While being overhead of the ...
... 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 ...
... from the USS Hornet was quite a spectacle. And the following flying display during dusk did also feature a lot of pyrotechnics effects.
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... the US Navy contributed the F/A-18F Super Hornet demo team and the fly-by of the U-2 spyplane could be celebrated as another highlight. Many other military aircraft and helicopters were arriving for the ...
... hundred meters it is challenging flying terrain, but provides plenty of photo opportunities. Meiringen is the home of the Swiss Air Force's Fliegerstaffel 11 "Tigers", one of Switzerland three F/A-18 Hornet ...
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Jet and Helicopter Solo Displays
Solo displays were also numerous and came from all around Europe to beautiful Austria: Spanish F/A-18 Hornet, ...
... Hornet solo display was another highlight. This was maybe only topped by the impressive performance of the Frecce Tricolori, which are always a crowd favorite. Not only because of the charming Italian ...
... black and white invasion stripes this year.
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Jet displays were present with the F-18 Hornet from Switzerland and the Turkish ...
... put up the F/A-18F Super Hornet and the Boeing P-8A Poseidon ASW and MPA aircraft for the flying display as well as their new Boeing B787-9. The latter concluded the 2,5h long flying program in the afternoon, ...
The Swiss Air Force still operates two jet types in their fleet, the F-18 Hornet and the F-5E Tiger. During the annual WK (Wiederholungskurs - repetition course) Squadrons operating these aircraft relocate ...
... on the static display with several aircraft and helicopters, and the US Navy did even participate in the flying with the F-18E Super Hornet. That show was flown with the colourful bird of VFA-81 "Sunliners", ...
... were some 10+ Hornets and Super Hornets in the air, the mainly did only some level fly-bys and it somehow seemed that the key aspect of these demonstrations were the pyrotechnics on the ground. But maybe ...
