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Obviously, Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis’ president Cyrille Valente would have liked to welcome more visitors as there were no limitations imposed by the authorities: „The show is an important factor for ...
... were ‘sold out’ within about 20 minutes and showed the strong interest of hardcore enthusiasts and the general public alike.
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... US Navy inventory three years later. After a total of more than 3,500 flight hours, its service to the nation was over, and she was about to continue her life in the civil hands like many other military ...
... based in the North to fly mission over the Japanese Sea, most likely to gather intelligence of ship movements around the Japanese Sea between Japan and Russia.
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... a career with the Armée de l’Air (French Air Force), where he flew amongst others jets like the Mirage III, Mirage F.1 or the Jaguar, he changed in 1995 into flying business jets. After that he joined ...
... and at most on the Europe’s Western Front. The horror of the war, that played further east with the Russia’s fight against Nazi Germany is almost absent. Airplanes like the Jak-3 and the story about the ...
The COVID-19 outbreak affects us all. It affects and restricts our daily life, and along with that also our leisure time activities. It currently seems like like pulling the throttle from full power back ...
... the civil version of the venerable military transport C-130 Hercules. The vertical maneuvers have been stunning, and likely topped the ones regularly presented by the Italian AF C-27J Spartan.
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... a clever idea to return with loads of nice photos. The sun stands high in the sky for the most time of the day, the light is harsh with strong shadows, and heat haze will most likely spoil any photos taken ...
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US Navy Blue Angels
All this might sound like a lot of complaining about a good show, and it seems your reviewer was spoiled by an ...
... quite a contrast to the usually meat-loaded plates that one would expect in Romania. So it was more like a day at the cinema than a 'hardcore' airshow. However, the performers were not seen on a screen, ...
... 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 ...
... capabilities of this indigenous (and F-16 lookalike) fighter jet.
First was a formation of three jets of each of these two Squadrons, that first presented a nice fly-by as a six-ship formation. It was ...
... ramp“ of active aircraft. Seeing those immaculate jets it felt like being in Vietnam. But despite this view and the sweltering humidity, seeing their former adversary, a MiG-21 Fishbed, parked right next ...
Tsuiki Airbase on the Southern Japanese island of Kyushu hosts nowadays two Squadrons of the Mitsubishi F-2 jet. 6 Hikotai and 8 Hikotai are half of the JASDF Squadrons operating the indigenous, F-16-look-alike ...
... with aircraft from WWI up to post WWII and there remains no doubt that “Fly Navy” will most likely see a third edition in 2018. And for the gray sky please on't blame the weatherman, but instead keep a ...
... to larger average airshows the line-up of a dozen of P-51 Mustangs will leave one speechless. And looking for other warbirds just goes like: “You name it… you get it…”
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... of the spectators was without any major problems. Most likely this was due to the early opening of the gates before the announced time at 7am, and the decision not to put any of the highlights of the flying ...
... already next year and the reason to ease maintenance and support with only one jet type on base for the JASDF is obvious. But for the airshow this could mean at the same time that it will likely restrict ...
Bangladesh is neither a common tourist destination, nor is it likely the first country that would make it on top of the list of "popular planespotting destinations". Nevertheless the trip to Dhaka was most ...
