The annual airshow at Nyutabaru is always a safe bet to see some amazing aerial displays of the JASDF. Three Squadron, either equipped with F-4EJ Phantoms or F-15(D)J Eagles, amongst them the nicely painted ...
Nyutabaru, Sunday morning, 6h30… Masses of cars are already queuing to get on the parking places, and even the first enthusiast are on their way to the south side of the airfield, carrying their stepladders ...
Nyutabaru, on the southern Japanese island of Kyhusu, is a real superbase, if not THE superbase. At least that's what everyone says who has ever been there. With one squadron of Phantoms and 2 of F-15 Eagles ...
... farewell to 302 Squadron Phantom operations. In Japan’s autumn airshow season it did visit all of the former 302 airbases, amongst them Komatsu, Nyutabaru or Naha.
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For a change from that many F-2A displays an F-15J from nearby Nyutabaru also arrived for some fly-bys, which were rather high, except for the last one after a ‚missed approach’, which presented a nice ...
... Eagle moved to Nyutabaru and was followed by the “Black Panthers” 8 Hikotai from Misawa, which in 2008 converted from the F-4EJ Phantom II to the F-2. The nicknamed “Viper Zero” is a 4.5th generation multirole ...
... provide a nice variety.
Unfortunately plans for the JASDF future foresee that the F-15J Eagles of 304 Hikotai will swap with the Nyutabaru-based 301 Hikotai Phantoms, which means that the „Phantom ...
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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 ...
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Other than that the airshow at Tsuiki in 2014 once again got a visit from a Nyutabaru-based F-4EJ Kai Phantom for some ...
Aggressors, Eagles and Phantoms, there is plenty of jet action going on at Nyutabaru, even on a normal flying day. Spending two days on the fence guarantees many motives of jets from the Land of the Rising ...
... unday.
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After an exciting day that kept me quite busy I left with the last rays of sun heading to Ny ...
... n directly from Nyutabaru and did some fly-bys. Nothing special due to the weather - however it was a Phantom display! - and I did not press the trigger very often.
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The F-2 so ...
... arly wake-up call at 0430h the next morning…
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The report about the airshow at Tsuiki can be found here on a separate page.
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The jets were next with a F-4EJ Kai Phantom that flew in directly from Nyutabaru, and a display of three Tsuiki based F-15J Eagles ...
... to go back again. This journey to the "Land of the Rising Sun" was organized around the airshows in Nyutabaru and Naha, thus concentrating on the warmer south at that time of the year. With a better preparatio ...
... e fly-bys and very cloudy skies. Nothing spectacular after the display one week earlier at a sunny Nyutabaru.
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At half past three - shortly before ...
Another spotting trip to Japan, this time a larger tour covering Kyushu island with its two main airbases Tsuiki and Nyutabaru and an extension down South to Naha for the airshow that celebrated the Okinawa ...
... f it wouldn't have been dark that part would also have been very scenic, but in the night we could unfortunately only get a small idea of the deep valleys through which we were driving. Close to Nyutab ...
... we wanted to have a first look at Iwakuni and would reach Tsuiki late, being able to visit the Airshow on Sunday. Week 2 Monday and Tuesday were blocked for Nyutabaru and Kanoya, a Navy base. Nyutabar ...
