... ut 80 years ago.
To See this PBY Catalina in real life, you should consider a visit to the extensive collection of the Military Aviation Museum, just South of Virgina Beach!
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... h for the amount of accumulated flying hours, but more to the fact that they have to be used to the operating procedures in a real crew environment.
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In the South you can find some spots along the road, but this is more or less in a forrest. When the jets come in to land, you see them very late have to be really, really quick.
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... not only did the weather literally wipe this out, but also did the organization not really contribute that this event became a success. Shuttle buses from the public parking lots to the event were scarce ...
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The airbase‘s surrounding is really spectacular as it is located in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Flying activity was plenty during my visit as a WK (Wiederholungskurs - Repetition Course / exercise) ...
... f frontline F-16I Sufa and F-15I Ra’am long range strike fighters. Hatzerim is located not far from the Gaza Strip, and the prime minister’s speech highlighted the IAF’s fundamental role in real-world operatio ...
... can become a realistic scenario in this part of the world and was certainly not chosen by chance as a theme for the high-value exercise "Blue Flag 2019" at Ovda Air Force Base in southern Israel.
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The only ‘real’ military flying display on the FIA18 trade days was the Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) F-16 Demo Team, flying a Spangdahlem-based USAFE Fighting Falcon in the usual gray sky of Farnboro ...
... in full swing. While the “Air Legends” turned out to be difficult for photography in the beginning, it turned out really good. For the enthusiastic photographer the airshow organizers have also set up a spec ...
... least the Super Mushak propeller trainer (small enough to be fit in the Hercules and be taken along with no real additional effort...), also wearing Pakistani national colors, was presented in the static ...
... Squadron operation the RF-16 and RF-5E Tigereye was an opportunity was just too tempting not to miss it. And would the Republic of China’s Air Force (ROCAF) really plan an airshow amidst the typhoon season ...
... the Belgian Air Force, mainly during airshows at home and abroad.
Vador and the "Dark Falcon"
To really stand out, the team has created a stunning paint scheme on the F-16A MLU „Fighting Falcon“, seria ...
... a blue sky!
Obviously the USAF F-16 "Viper" solo display could not really compete with the show of the "Blues", but it did put a nice display in the humid sky of Houston and the Heritage Flight in formati ...
... easy to reach. However, those foreigners did not really stand out against the thousands of Japanese photographers who also made this show at Hyakuri a truly Phantom pilgrimage. Apart from a great flying ...
... July 28, 2018, at Bucharest International Airport Baneasa. With a slow start of the flying display at 9am in the morning, it really kicked of with the opening fly-by of Forțele Aeriene Române / Romanian ...
... and this was well returned by the photographers.
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So did I miss a lot not queueing for everything? Unfortunately not really, as the static display was a lot smaller than during my last visit in 2014. No Mitsubishi F-2 testbed in the hangars, and on ...
... formations, amongst them a stunning 4-ship formation of Buchons - a real treat not seen for ages! And not to forget the seemingly endless line-up of nearly 50 airworthy warbirds along Duxford’s grass runway. ...
... the long queues of people waiting for the opportunity to sit in a real jet. Most of the participants for the flying jets also brought a second aircraft that enriched the static display even further. As ...
... of currently the world’s only airworthy twin-seater of a (re-build) Messerschmitt Me262 „Schwalbe“. And it was a real treat to see this plane flying in formation with other aircraft from the same era. ...
