The Polikarpov I-16 Rata is a rare bird. Only a dozen of originally more than 8500 produced aircraft exist, including seven that have been re-build for Sir Tim Wallis' Alpine Fighter Collection in the ...
... e, but also one with the rare opportunity when the host with his vast operational experience gives his international guests the opportunity to train deployment scenarios against state-of-the-art air and g ...
... to Hsinchu was scheduled. This was planned ahead just to be sure to catch some of those rare Mirages, which are the only ones in the Asia-Pacific region. And they were flying again! This day the CAP was ...
... 2019 will be the last chance to see those rare and attractive birds. After that 301 Squadron will follow only one year later. It will be a “First in, last out” for 301 Hikotais as it was the JASDF first ...
... B737 in formation with four Extra 300.
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Another cool flying display was Valer Novac’s flying in the Kamov Ka-26 helicopter. It’s a rar ...
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Amongst the helicopters the Belgian Air Force presented its Agusta A109 in flight, and SIAF 2018 also saw the rare appearance of a Polish Army Mi-24 combat helicopter in the flying display.
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It was well worth attending this 2018 Tsuiki Airshow ,and rarely I have had such nice days. With the families day on Saturday already blessed with gorgeous autumn weather and a deep blue sky, the sho ...
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Lysander and the Polikarpov
A quick jump to the era of WWII saw the Westland Lysander and the Polikarpov Po-2 displaying, and it has to be mentioned that very rarely I have seen the Lysander in suc ...
The “Air Power over Hampton Roads” airshow at the Joint Base Langley-Eustis was held on 19-20 May, 2018. It is one of the rare chances to visit an airshow at a base being home of the awesome F-22A Raptor. ...
EAA Airventure at Oshkosh in 2017 saw a rare gathering of Bell Aircraft Cobras. Three P-63 Kingcobras and a P-39 Airacobra attended the ‘World’s greatest Aviation Celebration’, amongst them all Cobras ...
... and the static display was also rather nice collection of JGSDF, JMSDF and JASDF aircraft with an F-15J, C-130 Hercules, P-3C Orion and especially the rare visit of a KC-767 tanker aircraft.
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... which was the early end of the air show season for the charismatic jet. Noticeably less spectacular to see but a very rarely presented outside its home airfield Yeovilton was the Chipmunk of the RNHF. ...
... also the meeting of three rare P-63 Kingcobras and one P-39 Airacobra. It was the first such rather large meeting of three types of “Bell’s finest” for the first time after WW II. More photos of this come-together ...
... several of the rare and unique warbirds from the World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War.” Along the flightline there was the chance to get up close and personal with numerous P-40 Warhawks, a P-39 Airacobra ...
The SU-27 Flanker, MiG-21 LanceR and MiG-29 Fulcrum are apart from being three Cold War warriors and rare Russian-build jets three excellent airshow acts that you can hardly argue about. For its 2016 edition ...
... are possibilities to see a German Tornado display. With low and fast fly-bys the crew presented their jets in its natural environment. What a contrast to ‚turn&burn‘ of the Eurofighter!
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... into the civil register as HB-MKP until the move to Germany.
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The Bücker Jungmeister and Jungmann are obviously very popular amongst their pilots. Very rarely they change their o ...
... 16 Blackhawk helicopter. The Slovak AF put a special coloured MiG-29UBS in the dispersal area, and the ‘glas nose’ Let L-410FG for photogrammetry was a nother aircraft rarely seen around airshows. Aero ...
... AF (the same reason why the LanceR cancelled – talk about changing two F-15s on the ground against one MiG-21 in the air…). A rare appearance was also the Tiger helicopter of the German Army, which look ...
... nd being well kept in good condition.
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Though not as big as past events, this “Tag der Bundeswehr” attracted 60.000 visitors and proved to be a great day out, with the rare, and ...
