Somehow I had to go back to Japan, despite some of the experiences during my first trip. All these exotic aircraft and and the strange, but very interesting country and the nice people finally made me ...
... of Richthofen’s triplane in which the famous ‘Red Baron’ was brought down on April, 21st 1918.
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... at La Ferté-Alais might have been the last chance to see an Aeronavale Alouette during a small flying display, and also the C-160D Transall touching down on the grass strip in front of the crowd.
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... of NATO’s Tiger Association (NTA).
Where? flying high over Bavaria When? 05/2021
According to the designer of this Tiger design, Alexander Hamm, the white and blue stripes of this Tiger jet do not ...
... at Oshkosh in time. Instead the lengthy journey ended in North Weald, England, just before crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Halfway on its planned trip, the Catalina has been put into storage and should be ...
... they had on stock and that were suitable to be put into an to-become-airworthy aircraft. During the restoration process the main fuselage as well as the wings were completely stripped from their paint. ...
... to December in recent years.
This trip here around central Honshu was done in the week before one of the last Hyakuri airshows that still featured the venerable McDonnell Douglas / Mitsubishi F-4EJ Phantom ...
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But oil pans are also noticeable under some of the World War I aircraft. This clearly indicates they are airworthy and includes an impressive number of five Fokker triplanes. An impressively large triplane ...
... this short trip to the Meiringen airbases was a welcome opportunity to pursue some aviation photography again.
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Fighting out of the Caverns ...
... 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 operations ...
... remarkable formation of aircraft appeared from the right. A Douglas C-47 Dakota, showing of large black and white "Invasion Stripes" on its wings, protected by a pair of P-51 Mustangs, and followed French ...
... from a grass strip, and even fewer are the opportunities it see it from up so close. Legendary fighters such as the Spitfire, Fury, Mustang or Buchon (the Spanish Messerschmitt Bf109) start up their engines ...
This was another plane spotting trip to Taiwan. Even though it has a vivid aviation photography scene, it’s tropical climate and a military on high alert do not make it an easy country to pursue this hobby. ...
... decorated F-16 Fighting Falcons. One jet from each 349 and 350 Squadron received „D-Day“ stripes on its wing and fuselage and a special scheme on the tail showing a Supermarine Spitfire flying over the ...
... directly adjacent to the airfield. During WW II Pilsen (Plzen), Czechoslovakia was just as many other airfields occupied by the German Luftwaffe. Dobrzan was a field airstrip until the end of the war, ...
... option.
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At least that was what I thought. Shuttle busses to the show ground ran from the Kakamigahara aviation museum. For this bus trip two ...
... The Republic P-47D “Nellie” is well known at Duxford, as the airframe was last present at the show in 2006, but that time with big invasion stripes and “No Guts No Glory” markings on the nose. After its ...
... the spectators were gazing at the spectacle of the Boxkite, which was then joined by the Avro Triplane.
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After a seemingly endless ...
... – bad weather being one of them – this year’s edition was blessed with glorious sunshine throughout the week. This obviously made the trip into the Swiss Alps more than pleasant at a time when the first ...
... Day the majority of warbirds from the 1940s era being part of the fantastic collection of the MAM are literally unleashed and take to the air from a small private airstrip just South of Virgina Beach on ...
