... ercise for the hosts: "Here at Blue Flag we place great value on training the individual pilot in his cockpit. We are here to share, not to teach", Tal Herman explains an important point of "Blue Flag ...
... g week-end.
Where? Farnborough, UK When? 16-22/07/2018
Unfortunately the week-end's airshow featured a rather disappointing program, and in the end it turned out that it was the final public airs ...
... Su-27 Flanker or the JF-17 from Pakistan for the flying display. In the end, however, it were also not only the bad weather conditions that left some disappointment.
Where? Radom, Poland When? 23-24/08/2018 ...
... locations and pointing their lenses to the sky. With its island position in the Asia-Pacific region TPE attracts a lot of wide-body aircraft from all of the neighboring countries. Those large aircraft ...
... for sure airshow visitors will also appreciate Vador’s 2019 airshow routine, including spectacular and technical maneuvers such as very closed ‚sliding‘ rolls and 8-point-roll, which demands accuracy an ...
... Pilsen / Plzeň airshow was a nice event and a good possibility to see the Classic Trainers and Czech-based warbirds. A downside of the event from a photographers point-of-view that has to be mentioned ...
... W aircraft, which can be regarded as a trademark for the Gifu airshow, was disappointing. Compared to previous years with up to 10 aircraft, this time only the Kawasaki C-1 FTB (Flight Test Bed) flew ...
... such a USAF solo jet demo flown so low and so close to the apron. At certain points the passes seemed directly over the first row of the crowdline and it nearly was possible to touch the jet. This very ...
... use that shuttle service. Whereas going uphill the crowd is being distributed throughout the morning up until around midday, one down point are the large queues that build up along the cableway once the ...
... d Air Control (FAC) and its mission was to pin-point enemy troop locations through communication with 'friendlies' on the ground. Once proper recce was done and the positions spotted, these ground targ ...
... faster than foreseen and the two types thus did not show anymore. As a compensation the A319 was presented during a QRA demo and “forced to land” by the MiGs at Sliac. At one point it really seemed as ...
... Extras were operational again. They could thus show their full routine, including the heart for the crowd and most importantly the five-pointed star that is a prominent feature on their national flag. ...
... very pleasing closing point of another great La Ferté meeting, which for sure earns highest ranks amongst comparable airshow, being a great travel of time using a packed flying program, and still remaining ...
... some passes. Of course the commentary pointed out the important role of this RNZAF aircraft in the search for flight MH370. As the T-6 is rather new in the Air Force’s fleet, this type only performed som ...
... ons of this classic Douglas "threeholer" are still flying around the world, Biman's example was the last one in civil service. And the remaining days could merely be counted on two hands at that point of ...
... landing in covered the public completely into dust. Leaving your bags closed and not changing any camera lenses was a good idea at this point of time!
airshows/14_aad/war4
Furthermore the Silver Falcons ...
... e many small islands.
special/14_hokkaido/f15
special/14_hokkaido/f153
With the Russian island of Sachalinsk as well mainland Russia is very close to Japan’s Northern point of Defence, and the a ...
... from the time of WW II. They were of course preceded by „FiFi “, still the only flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress world-wide and the figurehead and a unique “selling point” of the CAF. Apart from that two ...
... Old Warden, Biggleswade, UK When? 07/09/2014
airshows/14_sw/so2
The big highlight from every point-of-view at this particular show has been the legendary de Havilland DH.88 “Grosvenor House” G-ACSS. ...
... very good, but there was obviously a bad weather period as the sun was nearly continuously hiding behind the clouds or came out at the wrong point of time. Nevertheless during cold autumn months the visitor ...
